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If you don't watch 'Horrible Histories' then you should rectify this immediately. That is all.

I love birthdays, I love the giving of presents,

However, having most of my close friends turn 30 this year is giving me serious 'special present' fatigue.

This post was brought to you by the words 'grumpy' and 'disorganised'.

( Spoilery, not proof-read and not very coherent thoughts on 'The War Child' )

...But I'm less keen on becoming the Martin Crieff of driving tests ( Read more... )

I watched 'A Scandal in Belgravia' the other week and this is still nagging at me.

( 'Yes, thank you for your imput.' )

...And with those words (spoken in his rather lovely Radio Four voice) I fell a little bit in love with Hal.

'Being Human' has been rather ace of late.

It was one of those shows that I stuck with, rather than properly enjoyed. Series one had some lovely moments ("Fun is such a bourgeois concept" and Nina's beyond brilliant take-down of a posturing, ( Read more... )

Well, hello Livejournal.

I turned 30 last week. I think I've just about decided that I'm OK with it. Nearly 95% fine with it. Well, maybe 90% OK with it.

I spent last weekend feeling - and, to be fair, being - thoroughly spoiled. I took my birthday off work, which felt a lot like I was playing hooky and spent most of the day in pyjamas before going ( Read more... )

I haven't posted anything on here in ages. In lieu of anything interesting to say, I'm just going to point out that the second series of 'Forbrydelsen' (aka the original Danish version of the 'The Killing') is apparently being shown on BBC Four starting from the 12th November. Hurrah!

I loved the first series. It's not perfect by any means but I ( Read more... )

exterminezvous can do it: she's got neat handwriting.' Which is how I ended up 'facilitating' a brain-storming session about communication issues at work and what can done to make my workplace a happy one. In case that sounds too grand and important, it was basically a slightly patronising way of asking me to stand up in front of a room full of people and write ( Read more... )

People are paid a lot of money for making an awful, awful mess of something that should be simple.

In other news, I've updated my default icon as I have the need to channel Carolyn Knapp-Shappey. I could get 'WWCK-SD'? stitched onto a bracelet and wear it all the live-long day at the moment. She's completely fab.