"I promise to be the bestest bard ever and never be bad and never accidentally lead you into an ambush and-"

( Camel )

I have a nephew. Welcome to the world John Meridith.

I finally got round to arranging to have my car scrapped today. Car tax runs out at the end of the month otherwise I suppose I'd still be procrastinating. Very quick operation, just an hour between phone call and collection. I would have saved myself some money in road tax if I'd done this six months ago but I still hoped I could do something with ( Read more... )

After reaching Bristol we ended up in that city's candidate for saddest pub in Great Britain. Upon entering we found half a dozen regulars huddled morosely at the bar.We approached in silence to be met at the bar by the news that their beer cooler had broken down leaving only the carling extra-cold available chilled. The two unused handpumps in the ( Read more... )

I've never much cared for fireworks. Nothing against them, I accompany friends to displays and acquiesce in my more enthusiastic house-mate's home barrages, but not my cup of tea. However, yesterday evening, during a road journey to a party in Bristol, every built-up area we passed was having displays. Swindon, in particular, was lit up by multiple ( Read more... )

( I didn't want to go but they made me.. )

Having trouble downloading pages from LiveJournal and eBay (up to 8 minutes/page).I have checked with my house-mates, they report similar problems so it is not my computer. Other friends report no problems so I guess it is either our router or I.S.P. On monday I'll prod PS2(house-mate) to bother Zen(I.S.P.) about it as it's the cheaper option ( Read more... )

"It's,like,a shop for boys"
(A young female customer to her friend as she came in)

Trying to think of something interesting to say... uhh... no. Okay, following on from my last post my dealer (model ship I'm afraid) procured for me three Russian ships; cruiser Admiral Nakhimov and battleships Imperator Nikolai I and Navarin. The latter two are from the, long out of production, Mercator range from the '70s. I have known of them ( Read more... )