Daily Prompt: Define freedom.

Riiight, okay. ermm. Well the obvious quotes about the right of all sentient beings and no one who works for a living etc etc aside this one's kinda hard.

( Warning: the result of a days worth of thinking & philosophising lurks under here. )

Nope I haven't quite dropped off the face off the universe, just been mildly squished by life and work. The five second summary of the last few months is:

1: The house sale is back on yet again! But this time it looks like we might finally go the whole nine yards

2: The office is in utter turmoil thanks to some very underhand activity by a now very ( Read more... )

So yeah, the house ain't selling (the 4th attempt has yet again fallen through) so we've cut our losses and given the tenant his marching orders and we're gonna move out of Stortford and back in with mum sometime after Easter Con hopefully it'll sell empty ( Read more... )

Am I allowed to find it strange that people actually seriously research how earth quakes make shorter days

Or contrary to all normal logic you can use a net to catch water

And in case you're wondering why I'm harping on about strange stuff:


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With the connivance of a sleepless night the stuffy nose has dropped into my lungs and I now sound like I've smoked 70 cigarettes a day all my life. Not to mention my back muscles are killing me after all this damn coughing (insert inevitable joke about coffin here ( Read more... )

Overly loud personal conversation on the train, the whole fragging car doesn't need to know what x's sister-in-laws lover has or hasn't done. I really don't need to know the intimate details of other peoples privet lives, especially when I'm running low on sleep and have had a crappy day at work. Can people please save those sorts of conversations ( Read more... )

There it goes my last birthday as a spinster, by the time the next one rolls round I'll have been married for 8 months. Apart from taking a day off all I've done to "celebrate" is take a day off and do housework! *snerk* My life is so full of interesting events.

And now I'm wide awake at nearly midnight so I'm gonna finish watching the Lord of the ( Read more... )

This window has been sitting open for a long time and what ever I was going to post still hasn't reappeared, so instead help care for the ever growing horde here please


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but watching Mr Savage attempt to set a car on fire I do have to ask what the point of a fire proof suit is if you don't ware the gloves.... I mean think about it, the bit of your body closest to the source of ignition and you don't protect it ( Read more... )