Have had leaflets from UKIP, the BNP ('Look at the NHS! Immigration has made it crap!' Er... immigration is keeping it functional, morons!) and a bloke for 'We Can Europe', wittering about how Europe isn't under the rule of the people (possibly has a point) and WCE is 'not a party'. Looked at their website - had to endure 2 videos before I could ( Read more... )

Finally visited the enormous fish shop in Morden - FISH ( Read more... )

Strewth, it's been a month and a half.

What have I been doing? There was conflux's 40th, which had involved one heck of a lot of planning. (he's planning a small quiet dinner for his next birthday...) It went very well in the end: he really enjoyed enacting a fantasy to start with, and I think everyone else involved had fun too - it wasn't really my ( Read more... )

I finished Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson last week. Could I find The Confusion, the second in the trilogy, to start before I forgot what had happened in the 950 pages of the first one? Could I buggery ( Read more... )

This week's exciting episode in the soap that makes EastEnders seem tame and where the actors aren't wooden ( Read more... )

Happily, all remaining fish have survived and are looking healthy. I was worried about one male swordtail, but then realised this is because he'd spent the last 2 months courting one of the females, who responded to the stressful conditions by turning male. As you do ( Read more... )

Glad so many people managed to make it to our housewarming - as ever I didn't get to talk to some of you, so we'll just have to meet up again. With an excellent date with djm4 on Friday, socialising at mine from 2pm to 2am the next day, and going out for relaxed local pizza on Sunday, it was nearly a fantastic weekend ( Read more... )

Five 'koi swordfishes' or 'sunset swordfishes' have taken up residence in my fish tank. They're very like the platies I had - deep orange with black tails - but with extra black splodges. And swords - the males have the lowest ray of their tails extended into a long spike ( Read more... )