Having maintained radio silence since April, here follows an absolutely enormous post. Things ought to be different next year, touch wood...

[That was the year that was [cut for being bloody enormous]]1.What did you do in 2016 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

The end of the year is nearly upon us, and I have managed to find a few slivers of time today, in between bits of my 'the flat shall be (mostly) clean and tidy for the new year' frenzy to draft answers for 2015 to the 39 questions in the year meme.

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I have loads of other (technically more important) things I need to do today, but here comes the Year meme, because it's time sensitive and because I felt like it. ;)

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Well, I didn't quite manage to do this before the year turned, but it's pretty close...

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I was a little disappointed that I didn't manage to do this before the year ticked over...until I searched out last year's from which to cut and paste the questions, and discovered I did 2011's on 29th Jan 2012...
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I requested five questions from anadel1976 in a meme earlier in the week, and then didn't quite get round to ansering them. So, before A gets home from work, here be my answers...

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From a discussion which started on theladiesloos, via a meme started by piqueen and continued by anadel1976, here are my results on the love languges quiz, which lives here:

9 - Words of Affirmation

9 -  Quality Time

4 - Gifts

7 - Acts of Service

1 - Physical Touch

Scores run from 1-12. I don't think anyone who knows me will be surprised by my lowest scoring one. A and I are the ( Read more... )

The work week this week was slightly less long , albeit equally frustrating at times (e.g. its longest day running about 11 hours). My nan's funeral, on Wednesday, went well and there were, thankfully, no rows between my mum and her sister and her youngest daughter, as had been feared.

So, only about a month late, and after quite a bit of time spent ( Read more... )

It's meme time. A comment gets you a letter. List ten things you like/love which begin with that letter. 
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Following on from piqueen 's and anadel1976 's posts on this subject...

I'm most interested in these things:

Music: OK, the goth thing is pretty obvious with a username like mine - my music collection runs from Abney Park to Zero Le Creche - but I also like quite a bit of less obvious pop, folk, indie,  rap, metal and dance. I haven't managed to do a lot of it this ( Read more... )