Going dark - travelling to Turkish side of Cyprus and Internet access may be intermittent for the next week.

So in the words of our adopted home for the next week - "Ingliizce biliyor musunuz?"

Hoşçakalin!

On Sunday we fly.  Not Saturday.  I really must learn to stop getting confused.

Back garden is looking nice.  Work on that complete Saturday.  Then we travel.  Tonight we pack!  Tempting as beer and banter is, you just got to do what needs to be done so you can go on holiday - life is a beach y'know?

RIP Farah Fawcett & Michael Jackson.  More ( Read more... )

Bushed.

X-7 tomorrow off due to theo1  wanting to spend more time with his family.  And he's not even in the Cabinet!

G'night.

Woke (if you can call it that) up at 05.00 to get stuff together.  Apparently my being pale and wan was noted and suspected to be hangover but I know the goat in red wine stew was too rich for little old me.  Coffee did it's trick and I was much more accepting of food and the universe.  We own a fondue set (which will be broken out when we start ( Read more... )

Attention X-7shoppers!  Unless I'm given a compelling reason not to, we resume Monday!  Please note this in your calendars.

I'd like to propose the concept of news mashup.  Take two stories with a common theme (say, pirates) and then come up with some way of bringing them together.  I see this as the mass media equivalent of the large hadron ( Read more... )

Deep One done tribal style.  In honour of the new Elder Sign dice bag.

I can has new shoes!   A pair of ex-SAS parade shoes for a tenner and a pair of decent steel-capped safety boots for £40.  The boots have broken in nicely and there was much purchasing goodness.  I have also purchased a game called Colonial Gothic which threatens to occupy some ( Read more... )

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...which is nice.

OK.  I found the setting that stops Blip.fm from posting to LJ.

You can all stop complaining now.

Back Monday.

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