Last weekend was Portsmouth pilgrimage day. I learnt many useful and interesting things, and was very cold for a very long time. As brilliant a day as it was, I slightly hate them for tormenting me by having a Patrick O'Brian weekend that costs nearly £500. If only I had that much to spare then I wouldn't have to consider taking that shitty second ( Read more... )

Fantastic Friday, full of hip flasks, China town food, beer, pre-ordered interval wine, and the wonderful play The Secret of Sherlock Holmes. As this reviewer says, the set was beautiful, and I thought the actors who played Holmes and Watson were very good. It had me smiling like a loon through most of it, and the revelation of the second half was ( Read more... )

My dearest LJ,

I am really sorry I haven't talked to you in so long. You see, I went to Barcelona to see Misha and Jim and Sam and Jensen and Jared and David and Claudio and I was just so over-excited afterwards that I completely couldn't sit still long enough to post anything. There was a monastery and fake!stalking too and oh, LJ, it was all ( Read more... )

Croydon has a wine bar. Who knew such a thing could happen ( Read more... )

Oh, British Gas. I think you just overcharged me £300 there. If you didn't, I am buggered beyond belief and will likely be begging on the streets by the end of the month. And, really, I just don't think I react like a normal person would to such a traumatising bill. Mostly I just laughed ( Read more... )

I seem to have done the morning's work already. Sometimes I surpise myself. Time to write fic perhaps? ( Because, seriously, I have too many on the go at the moment. It's just embarrassing. Just look at them all. )

This is me working; I have stuff on my desk and everything. But my boss has gone off to meet the son of someone who works for our company (and I probably shouldn't be saying this on a blog but I can't resist because, seriously, how ridiculous). He's 19 and arrived at the station without money. What a complete twat. My boss was saying, "This is ( Read more... )

I am learning the truth of cienna's wise words: "Fandom is expensive. It's just like crack."

j_apollo and I went to see Avenue Q last night. It was so very funny and absolutely perfect. Of course, "The Internet is for Porn" and the mention of unicorns were the funniest thing I have seen in quite some time ( Read more... )

To cut a long, boring story short I went up to Trafalgar Square this evening to watch Doctor Who and to see Freema Agyeman who was introducing it as part of Pride. And, well, it was awesome fun.

I met up with the lovely monkey_junkey and we chatted, admired the pink Union Jacks and I got to know her mini!plastic John and Rodneys whilst sitting on the steps ( Read more... )

I went to the most gorgeous wedding in the history of weddings last weekend and got to meet up with some friends from university who I hadn't seen in about 5 years. The great thing was after about 10 minutes it was like we'd never been apart! I hadn't been to a wedding since I was about 7, and my aetheism meant I had absolutely not a clue how to ( Read more... )