So after fucking up the first delivery attempt, John Lewis managed to send a couple of competent washing-machine installers round today and I have a new washing machine, and a new appreciation for not having been burnt to death by the large lump of polystyrene that had been left under the old one for n years; luckily the machine didn't have any ( Read more... )

YES IT'S RAINING maybe this unnatural heat will be over before Tuesday after all? Also, I can't paint my front door if it's raining, can I? Hooray!

OMG. I'm online at home. That's spooky. (I haven't tried going upstairs yet; as this is a stone house I suspect there will be attenuation something shocking.)
Gosh, a whole new world of laziness opens before me. Anybody got anything NSFW they can rec?

Oh yes, I was going to cut sweet peas before it gets dark.

I went out and tidied up all last year's dead wood from the garden, and gave the Fatsia an iron tonic, and pulled up a lot of michaelmas daisy seedlings (they went a bit mad last year), and planted out sweet peas, and put down many different forms of cat-deterrent and organic slugdeath, and generally gave myself backache. It does look nice ( Read more... )

Autumn crocuses and Michaelmas daisies, nasturtiums, sweet peas, chives, lobelias, cyclamens and geraniums flowering like mad, and a dozen raspberries for breakfast.
I like my garden.

Hello folks ( Read more... )

Have eaten Chinese lunch with A., have seen Peter Pan (with Sophie Aldred in it, which was nice; Pan v. irritating, as he should be, Tinkerbell well done, pirates nicely evil, want to read the book now), have had four huuuuuuge heavy rolls of insulating wallpaper stuff delivered, which are now squatting in the living room like, well, like huge ( Read more... )

Did y'all know that We Are Klang's radio show, series 3 of Charm Offensive, and Milton Jones's Hello are out on CD? I didn't. I do now ( Read more... )

No time to post, w*rking... went to a comedy gig at the West Yorkshire Playhouse last night- came out grinning like mad and feeling it'd been far too long. (Tony Law comes down on the correct side of the shark-bear question ( Read more... )

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