Anyone know how to turn off LJ's new "feed" style friends pages? Do not want. I find my existing 25-entries-per-page to be much more manageable.

Merry winter-festival-of-your-choice, all of you!

No, no, not me, but a friend of mine is losing his retail job this coming Monday when the place where he works closes down. (Nice timing...) Anyone knowing of anything going in the South London/NE Surrey sort of area, let me know? Driving, manual stuff... he's a bit sick of retail but I suspect "something" rather than "nothing" would be what's ( Read more... )

Should you happen to be considering going to Chakalaka Restaurant in South Wimbledon -- don't! It's not there any more -- it's now a pub called the Horse and Groom. The fact that they still have a web site up and running is, sadly, neither here nor there -- and if you happen to get an answer on the phone number on their website, whoever that person ( Read more... )

And Mitch Benn sums it up better than I can:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3q2iZuU5WM&feature=player_embedded

25 years since Live Aid. Where does the time go... think I'll go and watch some of the DVDs.

I noted this article on the BBC, saying that Snoop Dogg had asked his agent to get him a part in Coronation Street. sweet_lil_sis and I had heard him at Glastonbury and commented on one particular aspect of his lyrics, and she has now composed his next hit for him:

( Cut for language, no, really, lots of it )

Happy birthday rotwang!

Brighton council doesn't want any of you sad old rockers

It's a shame I'm quite busy today and thus I didn't really have the time to string along the guy who just called the home phone and attempted to convince me that my home computer was infected with lots of malware and that he was calling from the Microsoft Windows Service Centre to help me clear it up. I lasted about two minutes before telling him, ( Read more... )