Donna: If I had to be trapped on a desert island with only one person, it would be you.

Charles: If I had to be trapped on a desert island with only one person, I'd want someone who looked remarkably like a boat.

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Donna: If we ever get engaged, you don't have to buy me a ring. Just get me one of those new iPhones.

Charles: Er… something you’ll ( Read more... )

What is swine flu?

According to the Center for Disease Control, swine influenza A (H1N1) is a flu virus that normally infects pigs. Occasionally the virus mutates so that it can infect humans, and since the human immune system is not properly equipped to deal with the virus it can be quite a serious infection.
Is swine flu dangerous?

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I was tagged with yet another of those ‘tell me a list of things I don't know about you’ memes, this time on Facebook. So for those of you who care, here is another random 25 facts about Yours Truly.

1. I cannot fall asleep without the sound of Donna Summer's "Back in Love Again" playing in the background.
2. Halfway through my first ever driving lesson ( Read more... )

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Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday to me
It's still a couple of years before
I can start making that joke again.

Bonus content: the USA franchise of Pret A Manger wins this decade's award for the most worrying overuse of scare-quotes:


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Today was Donna’s birthday. The original plan was to go out to a restaurant somewhere, but seeing as I woke up feeling like I’d been run over by a bus (or at least by the latest virus to be going around) we shelved that idea.

“Aha,” I thought. “I’ll cook dinner. Sure-fire brownie-points.”

Well, maybe not entirely sure-fire. I’ve not had the best ( Read more... )

Hello, world.

Charles and Donna, lazy Sunday morning, trying to avoid getting up and facing the day:
Donna: Still love me?
Charles: Of course. I’m never going to give you up.
Charles: I’m never going to let you down.
Charles: Never…
Donna: …
Donna: …
Donna: You did not just Rickroll me.

The top 20 most listened to theme songs in the last week, as tracked by last.fm:


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Over the last five years or so, my consumption of new music has dropped pretty dramatically. I blame the iPod, which has led me to spend most of my time with my own music collection when I used to listen to the radio and hear new stuff.

So I want to know what CDs were released in the last year that you think would make my aural world a better ( Read more... )