Yet again, my phone has apparently been using up credit all by itself - I texted home with my safe arrival yesterday, and got the usual automessage with my balance, which looked more or less as expected, and then this morning I tried to ring home and was told the balance was zero.
I can't even.
Also, I am so over university campuses which lack any ( Read more... )

Back in 2008, Gandhian pilgrimage that ended at Calais.
And his present (surely it is the same guy) simple life agenda has crossed my horizon heretofore.
My dearios, I give you I live a healthier life now I’m free of the trappings of modernity.
O, lucky old you, a healthy bloke with sufficient resources to undertake this project and pontificate ( Read more... )

No, really, if you return to me a copy-edited article for my attention, and mention that you have made changes to the text (as well as changing the title to one that I think is misleading), please to be sending it to me with your changes tracked and marked up.
For if you are going to insult my ability to write English prose, I think I should be ( Read more... )

My dearios will recall, if you were reading then (hello, new people!) that about a month ago I thought I had finally got the 'create executor account to put late father's assets into' stage of the proceedings sorted?
Hollow larfter.
Heard absolutely zilch, nothing, nada, zero, when I had been told that I should be getting card for the account etc ( Read more... )

How eBooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip'.
Which sounds to me a statement about 'at first it looked cool and cutting edge to have an e-reader, now everybody has one, meh'.
I.e. it's all about the lifestyle statements, which certainly seems to me to emerge like a miasma from all the to-do about books as lovely artefacts and ( Read more... )

In the process of going through my father's files, my sister discovered a life-insurance policy that his mother took out for him when he was a very small child.
Over the past weeks I have been trying to find out how much it comes to, so that I can add it to the value of the estate and apply for probate, finally.
I did manage to find the company ( Read more... )

I have vented on previous occasions about the tfl (Transport for London) 'Plan Your Journey' on their website, which always does its best to advise a route that will give the traveler experience of several modes of transport, or at least, 2/3 different Tube lines/bus routes, if at all possible incorporating some healthy walking exercise.
We have no ( Read more... )

I've just been in touch with the people who provided my work private health insurance, who have offered the possibility of private continuation under favourable conditions, because whatever my political views on the subject, possibly this is something I should be thinking about in the current circumstances that pertain.
And they have quoted me a ( Read more... )

I think commenting on somebody's apparent black eye and asking how it happened, unless you know them fairly well (and I don't consider just having been in the same yoga class constitutes a social introduction, anymore than a shag behind the lifeboats on the P&O liner out to Calcutta) is pretty much vulgar curiosity rather than meaningful concern.
( ( Read more... )

I may have indicated to my dr rdrz over the years that there is one topic on which I have more or less for adventitious reasons fallen into being consider A Nexpert and asked to talk about, and I will concede that I know about the topic and have opinions about it based on my hystorikle knowingz and nonetheless I really rather not be doing this. ( ( Read more... )