Something was decidedly hinky with the heating last night, my bedroom was a raging inferno and I ended up waking up twice; once at 2.30am and once at 5.30am.  It was getting to the point where I was sleeping without a quilt.  Both times I was required to gulp down a glass of freezing cold water before my throat would engage.  That, of course, ( Read more... )

At this point of this symposium of intellect I'd like to turn the subject to the weather. Now, much as I am loathe to criticise this country for anything beyond its politics, economy, class system, size and the general wankery practised by most of its inhabitants-I live here because there are no maniacal insects whose bites make your gonads swell ( Read more... )