It's been awhile since updating... I'm not really using this much anymore, and my plan eventually is to use my blogger blog instead... I'll miss some of the sense of community here, but I think that's atrophying (sp?) anyway... the idea with the new one is to focus on my writing, so that's writing about my writing, and also, writing about life in a ( Read more... )

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So until quite recently I had two credit cards, with limits which make you understand why the banks are now so screwed, maxed out (at one point I had three). I'd spent the last fourteen years or so with an attitude to my finances which is quite similar to Dubya's policy on climate change.

Now, however, with the assistance of tokensmile in taking the fingers ( Read more... )

My Dad's wedding was arranged at Hlane National Park in Swaziland, which is a pretty small game reserve in African terms, but it still has Lions, Rhino, Cheetah, Elephant, Wildebeest, Giraffe... We got there after dark. It gets dark at around six, so you have these long evenings, although everything starts earlier, and you end up getting up earlier ( Read more... )

I can LJ my weekend! Which was a pretty good one. I decided that I'd take the scenic route to North East London, via the outskirts of Bristol and Hemel Hempstead, so it took me fucking ages to get there, and I noticed as I parked that a) I was chock out of petrol, and b) I was parked on top of a big chunk of masonry which was now wedged under the ( Read more... )