For anyone travelling alone, the personal stereo is a godsend, protecting you from inadvertently and unavoidably overhearing other people's conversations, and protecting you from unwanted conversation*. My iPod died a while ago, and I bought a replacement battery for it, but was too terrified to try fitting it myself. Last night I actually got up ( Read more... )

I felt rather perky yesterday, and headed off to lunch with a friend in Hammersmith, had a lovely afternoon looking at her restoration projects and plotting to kidnap her dog, but got soaking wet on the long journey home, and woke this morning feeling muzzy and peculiar. I can’t allow myself to be ill, since I have actual, turning-up-on-time-at-a- ( Read more... )

Stuff continues to happen, but none of it is especially interesting. Mostly what I want to do lately is sleep, work and work my way through the local library's collection of DVD box sets of series that I never caught completely on TV. This week I've been mostly watching a rather odd combination of Cranford (quality BBC period stuff, with Judi ( Read more... )

Er, Ahoy Maties! Apparently today is be Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrgh ( Read more... )

I've had a very quiet week, staying in and working at rather dull data-entry stuff, and feeling increasingly tired and achey. Yesterday, I went, with Jade and Andrew, to see Susheela Raman at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, whingeing and moaning about my hip all the way, but feeling obliged to go, since the ticket was an early birthday present. Of ( Read more... )

I've had a reasonably busy time since I last posted. The g-d headed off to her family in Bristol for the weekend, and was replaced by my niece Katie, who turned up for the concert/open night at the British Library on Thursday and stayed until Sunday ( Read more... )

I seem to always be nattering on about the weather, but this is England, so there you go. We've had two days of pretty hot weather and now it's gone back to being pleasantly cool. I don't take heat too well, so spent a lot of time lying on the sofa sweating feebly ( Read more... )

Got this from idahoswedeGo to your iPod or whatever ( Read more... )

Woke up last night at about four, as usual, to a funny noise that I actually took a few seconds to recognise as rain. The morning was dull and wet, and warm(ish), just like spring should be, and by the time I'd persuaded myself out to the conference it was almost sunny and the air was like milk. The conference wasn't anything like as dull as I'd ( Read more... )