I'm off on me hols on Friday, to Malaysia and Thailand. Which is lot of flying. (Just talk among yourselves for a few minutes while I have a fit of the vapours. Right... okay, that should do it ( Read more... )

I am going for my first ever boob-squishing tomorrow. I had always nurtured the naive belief that I would escape this particular middle-aged-woman torture because they would not be able to fit The Girls into their squishing machine, but my friend F, whose boobs are several cup sizes larger than Hephzibah* and Ghislaine* got squished without ( Read more... )

A recipe for Jamaican Chicken Fricasee, for those of you like gingerspark who feel that standard recipes lack a little something*. This was committed to writing for the benefit of The Daughter, whose verdict was

"....MOTHER!!!"(it is very good, though, you should try it ( Read more... )

Firstly, I would like to thank Margaret Thatcher for hanging on until Monday. I wouldn't like to be going down to London this weekend*!

We did go last weekend though, and managed, against the odds, to get to see a couple of highly-sought-after events.

We actually managed to get tickets for Warhorse (the stage show). We've tried to get tickets ( Read more... )

The good news is that I finally managed to get a string of fake onions from Ebay. There can be few disappointments in life more crushing than losing an auction for a string of fake onions on Ebay and realising that there is someone out there who is even more determined to own those artificial alliums. Or perhaps realising that you're the sort of ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I had a Showdown with my Nemesis. Everyone has a Nemesis. For Dr Who it's The Master. For Sherlock Holmes it was Moriaty. For me, it's The Back Steps

( camile_sinensis vs The Back Steps )

I have been busy these past few weeks creating the Container World Website (ta da!), so that Container World can put its bits of Container Related Paper onto the world wide web just like every other container company ( Read more... )

Dear LJ

I see you are having one of your regular attempts to drive off what remains of your users upgrades. I can tell, because when I click on my friends page link, I am treated to the unwelcome sight of a blue banner which clashes horribly with the rest of the colour scheme and informs me:

"You're using the old version of the Friends page"Yes ( Read more... )

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( Off on my travels again )

As we all know "Fifty Shades of Grey" is the best selling book in the history of the entire universe, having sold more copies than all other books put together. This is, of course, because it is porn a masterpiece of modern literature cheap Inexpensive ( Read more... )