1. RIP Tomoko Kawakami. Known on my f-listers for voicing Soi-fon in Bleach and Lirin in Saiyuki Reload2. Still can't shift my shitty cough, and then last night I freaked myself out when my left hand went numb and lost all colour... while I was cleaning the kitchen. Purple nails and dead, dead flesh. wtf body? Been for 6 tubes of blood to be ( Read more... )

Whines( waaah )

Spring is definitely here.

I managed to get burnt sitting outside on Saturday. PLB and I went for a walk in Queen's Wood, but stopped off for lunch in the beergarden at The Woodman. I fell back on my standard pub fare with bangers n mash, but these bangers were wild boar with apple, and the mash had been liberally pepped with white pepper. White ( Read more... )

I've just been in the A&E for two and a bit hours.
( fish boooone. fish booone. graphic body horror fish boooone. )

( a bit of politics, a bit of rant, a bit of links and laughter, a bit of update. )

So on the 25th of March, I met up for coffee with battlekitty in Islington (and yes, interesting things have happened since my last proper post, but I was delaying posting diary-esque entries until I got some chapter edits done ( Read more... )

Tea #4 - Golden Lotus with a Jadelike Vesture:
There are yellow tropaeolums which inside Jade irises, silver needles are in surrounding, The shape of it likes a coagulate fountain, When you brew up it, a lot of dewdrops hanging on the jade iris flowers as thin as Cicada's wings, opening Lightly with dancing gracefully, Golden yellow and flowery ( Read more... )

In the centre, there is a fair yellow lily with many little and sweet osmanthuses. The figure of it is like a round mushroom. When the "mushroom" is the glass opens slowly, the golden yellow sweet-scented osmanthuses then like small tropical fishes rising up from the glass, you can smell it nine miles away! Yellow petals of lily dancing in the ( Read more... )

Embarrassing admission:

It's been 16 years since I had my eyes tested. And I am supposed to wear specs (my vision's not bad, bad - it's just not great).

So!
Where the hell should I go to remedy this dire lack of personal care?
Vision Express?
Specsavers?
D&A?
David Clulow?

Some other optometrist I don't know about yet?

'It's kind of disgusting. All that meat, in your face for a whole month ( Read more... )