Thursday I went up to campus to drop my clarinet off with my friend Julia, whose clarinet had died and who has a concert today. Lo and behold, there was a delivery van stopped in one of the disabled bays (I can't say "parked" because it wasn't positioned well enough to be considered "parked"). No sign of the driver; went into Queen's and talked to ( Read more... )

I am so so SO fed up with Mohammed Al-Fayed's insistence on the Royal Family being behind some big conspiracy that led to the deaths of Diana and Dodi. Inquests have revealed that the driver of the car was going at about twice the legal limit and that he was drunk, as well as the paparazzi hounding and chasing them ( Read more... )

*groans* I know their hearts are in the right place, but I'm getting rather annoyed about all this. I get the impression that if it's not got the word "evangelical" attached to it, they don't consider it suitable.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7161165.stm

Blackmore isn't that far from me. I've been there a few times and I know it a bit.

OK, it's sad that the kid died. But I want to know the following things:
- what parent in their right mind gives their seven-year-old child a quad bike for a Christmas present? (And their ten-year-old child his own, ( Read more... )

Have not been updating, because my laptop randomly decided, in the intervening period of me leaving for, and returning from, Mass on Sunday, to not connect to the wireless in our house. With any luck,
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The new Exeter Uni TolkSoc president is kinda stressed out right now.

You only need to click on one of the cuts - it's been split up into sections because of where I posted it to on a forum I'm on.

DfES (Department for Education and Skills) are really bugging me at the moment. They have nothing on their website about Meares-Irlen except a link to ( Read more... )

Twice in one week, Burnley are on telly!!! WOW!!!

Of course, you have to understand that this wasn't because it was Burnley. Oh no. It was because on Monday we were playing West Brom (who are in one of the play-off spots) and tonight we played Sunderland, who are aiming for automatic promotion. They won, which means that tonight they're top of the ( Read more... )

I'm in the mood for a rant, having just opened up today's Times. Some Spanish woman has had twins at the age of 67. Is is just me or is this wrong?

(Now I know how to do the text cut thingy - thanks,
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