Since yesterday my iphone is, most of the time, getting no signal from O2. Not sure whether something has gone wrong with phone or with O2, will try to find out later. This does mean that I may miss your call/text. If you need to get through to me it might be safer to email.

If we pray really hard, we’ll keep the heathens out of the White House....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7687286.stmRead more... )

Whatever. He (she? it?) probably doesn’t exist. I’m not sure how the message is supposed to be reassuring and that you can get on with enjoying your life, but, hey.

Put, amongst a few other items, a camera (my compact Canon 720is) on ebay. Get somebody to buy-it-now. The buyer is from Nigeria, with ebay account with zero feedback, registered in the US, created three days ago. Said buyer starts bombarding you with emails from them and, purportedly, from ‘service pay-pal’, to the effect that the ‘funds are on ( Read more... )

..Challenging the Weather Gods is not, perhaps, such a good idea after all:P

Last year I seem to remember I had accommodation (but no ticket) but couldn’t make it as the summer was slow and I had some unexpected expenditures. It is looking very similar this year, except I have ticket but no accommodation. But it looks like, once again, I cannot make it, the same story again with a very slow summer and a couple of very big ( Read more... )

+ + Yay, storm coming! (and I don’t have to go out in it, can just watch from my window...)

- - Parking fine when I overstayed my ticket for all of two minutes in Hampstead Heath an hour ago. When I arrived the ;evil purveyor of misery; parking attendant was still writing the ticket and I implored and asked for pity in the name of his innocent ( Read more... )

.. Hope it's good, wherever in the world you are today.

Last night I seem to have missed irisetta's birthday day do -didn't have anything about it in my diary. Went instead to the leaving do for teenytiny_laura, whicih was good. Some photos of that will foloow, if any are any good ( Read more... )