Unbelievably tired. It's kind of ridiculous, all I've done today is some gardening and really not that much! However, it's been very positive. For one thing, we emptied and sorted out the shed and put up a set of shelves. In the course of this, we found some abandoned manure pellets bought by the previous owners, so waste not, want not (I know it's ( Read more... )

This is bonkers and brilliant. 'Green Porno' is a series of short films about environmental issues, narrated by Isabella Rossellini.

In part 4, she enacts the sex life of a squid in full costume. Really. It has to be seen to be believed.

Thanks to veganpeople for the link ( Read more... )

Further go my last post/s, more questions ( Read more... )

Do you love your job*? Do you hate it? Do you have any feelings about it and if so, what and why? 
Is this the first job you've loved/hated/not given a toss about? Or do you generally feel similarly about other work you've done?

*'Job' in this context, need not be full-time and need not be paid. What you define as a job, I'll leave up to you. If ( Read more... )

Today, I have been rained on constantly! I've been trapped in a bus door! I've dealt with the usual daftness, rudeness and wacky shit! My feet really really hurt! And I have to go home to a filthy house & MORE WORK! Argh ( Read more... )

Hm. Haven't updated for nearly two weeks! They've been quite busy as well. On Thursday 22nd, we went to see Carousel: The Songs Of Jacques Brel at the Barbican, of which another proper update in more detail later. Tasty dinner at Carnevale and a potter round the 'art shop' with beautiful crockery emblazoned with famous modernist & brutalist ( Read more... )

Well, because it was me, I was mostly under the weather. You see, there was this big Plan to sort out the house, and this involved unpacking a lot of dusty boxes, and you can see where that's going, right? Yeah, ever-increasing levels of really bad allergic reactions - to the point where I spent pretty much all of Wednesday in bed wheezing, even ( Read more... )

It's been a busy week, even though I've only been in work 3 days. Came back from 2-day intro course (mostly obvious, but will save me a large amount of time later), during which the university administration frustrated me again and the accessibility fail made my head spin, to find, of course, a metric fuckton of work. Managed about 25 site visits ( Read more... )

Gah. Am ill again. Working from home tomorrow (before manager realised how unwell I was, fortunately, as we're not really allowed to WFH when ill and have to take sick leave - which is great in principle but means more work when we get back!), so hopefully I will get the chance to rest up.

Since I know several of you are looking for work right now, here are a few public sector/local government suggestions from this week's 'Opportunities ( Read more... )