I was busy at work when I got a calendar notification on my phone. I was baffled by that as I didn't have anything scheduled for today and when I checked, the notification didn't make a great deal of sense. I didn't have time to deal with it then so I just dismissed it and carried on working. I checked the Google calendar app when I got home and ( Read more... )

I ordered some stuff from Amazon the other day, which included a pair of nail clippers. For some reason, that one item was holding up the rest of the order so Amazon sent the order in two halves with the clippers being sent separately. It arrived just before tea. Like this:

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Ye gods, not another election.

I had been quite intrigued by the news of new X-Men series that are coming out this year. Firstly there's X-Men: Gold and X-Men: Blue both of which are starting this month. I wasn't entirely bothered about them initially because there's no Wolverine but then I saw a teaser image for issues 4 and 5 of X-Men: Blue which are out in June and have the ( Read more... )

A while ago I signed up for yet another MOOC on the FutureLearn site, this one is Archæology: From Dig to Lab and Beyond from the University of Reading. It's only a short course, just two weeks and three hours a week. It may be the last MOOC I do through FutureLearn as they've decided to introduce a charge. Previously, it was free to do any of ( Read more... )

It's just a month off my birthday now (hint hint :P) so I was talking to my sister recently about doing something for our upcoming birthdayness as hers is the following month. We're both big Harry Potter fans and both of us really really want to go to the WB Studio Tour so that seemed the obvious choice. I've been having a look at the train times ( Read more... )

I thought that deciding on my new phone and tariff was the stressful bit and that once that was done, all I would have to do would be to sit back and wait the 3-5 days for it to arrive. But no! That would be silly and I would have nothing to post about, except 'oooh, look at my awesome new phone' and how boring is that? So thank you, Vodafone, ( Read more... )

A few days ago I got an email from Costa inviting me to a special event to launch their new Christmas menu on the 4th November from 6-8pm. It promised free samples of their new Christmas range which sounded very good to me so I asked my sister if she was interested in going ( Read more... )

Do you know what it's like when you've found something that you really really want but either it's too expensive or you have no need or use for it, but then you get it and it's amazing and wonderful, and then a little way down the road, the bloody thing gives up on you?

I had been eyeing up the Ducti Utility bag for quite some time but couldn't ( Read more... )

Around the end of July, the washing machine had a strop - it's under an extended warranty so we had to get an engineer out to have strict words with it. After he'd given it a good talking to, he put it back under the worktop but in doing so, he managed to damage the floor. He hadn't used his sliders because the floor was level but part of the ( Read more... )