Thank you for your help! You are all so terribly interesting and full of good advice that it's a pleasure to pretend to know you. I shall be mulling over your suggestions tonight and flicking through the Yellow Pages to find the nearest Cowboy Training Agency. And which Village People did I forget ( Read more... )

How excited am I about Crown Prince Frederick getting married today? Well, subduedly excited, as I'm quite tired really and the internet connection is playing up. Otherwise I'd be finding a Danish radio live link as I type. In my previous life I looked after old ladies in Denmark, and knowing all about the lovelife of Crown Prince Frederick was an ( Read more... )

Duncan (hearing an item on the radio about the government drive to get people to exercise more): "The goverment should fund gyms and leisure centres. They should tax people for using the library and make it free to go to the gym. Because people are getting too clever, don't you think, Jo ( Read more... )

I should write a little bit about work and music too while I'm in the mood to speak, as apparently people like me to mention work and music. I have a focus group monitoring my journal, you know - I hear the ratings are down... Today I finally finished with Hounslow, where I made my feet sore by walking the streets all day and peering into people' ( Read more... )

Work is making me unhappy this week, but surely this happens to everyone in every job at some point. Consequently I have spared you the tales of the rain, the three-and-a-half hours of sleep, the tube breakdowns and the general aggressiveness of Londoners, but today my tale of woe is all of my own making. I went to Hounslow to do a parking survey ( Read more... )

Gutted, I am. Not to say heartbroken, stunned and very much put out ( Read more... )

I know, I'm whinging again, but at least I didn't have the computer to hand at 7 am when Rob ("Hi... Jo...") informed me that I would be back on the 25 bus for the next five weeks, even on my birthday! But I will deal with it. I won't be able to get down to Falmouth for a while now (and what will become of the laundry in the meantime? Heavens, it ( Read more... )

Today I felt really happy to be living in East London, which doesn't happen all the time, though of course my love for Newham holds no bounds. I spent the day in Whitechapel counting traffic and being rained on, and what larks I had! I caught a fuel cell bus to work (they're amazing!)! I stepped in a pool of sick the minute I arrived at my site ( Read more... )

I know you all mean well, but could you please stop sending me Brazilian lesbian dentists? I really don't know what to do with them, and it is getting embarrassing meeting the postman's gaze every morning. I had to help three of them escape over the fence this morning before anyone else got up ( Read more... )

internetsdairy heard my call and took some time off from hurrying around looking worried in order to accompany me to Starbucks. We discussed the practicalities of carrying a scanner around with you at all times and keeping a monkey in a South London garden. He informed me that in my absence from the internet, 117 civil servants had posted replies to my ( Read more... )