Hahaha I'm going to Gibraltar next Friday. In no way is this connected to my all-consuming passion for those Master and Commander books I have been reading non-stop for the past few weeks. No. Not at all.

Also unconnected, this flash game is addictive, fun, and oh-so-wrong. It has taught me that the Opium Wars were, in fact, all about tea. I have ( Read more... )

After much debate I finally gave in to my Egypt passion and fell to the side of taking the Egypt tours. I am very excited, and very scared, and fear for my voice and sanity. I shall not tell any of you when or where I will be doing them, because I know most of you too well, and know how you would just love to heckle me. XD ( Read more... )

Fridays. It's like the the day upon which the two of my strongest interests fight it out for brain-space. Politics v Fandom. SRS v NOT SRS. Or, maybe that's not true, because I take fandom very serious-like. I research my fic and everything, and sometimes I even bother to read meta ( 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... )

Oh bugger. I didn't screw the top of my Thermos on properly and now there is tea everywhere. It's not so much the mess as the tragic loss of tea that irritates me ( Read more... )

Part 1: There is weather. It is Cold.That's right! It's time to complain about the cold. Isn't this nostalgic. I think I might have missed writing long whiny posts about how freezing it is and about the snow and about how my toilet froze over. Not that I'm going to do that now, but my heating IS broken and I have thus been huddling around my ( Read more... )