Back in January 2011 I enjoyed many reviews of  the decade and its impact on my friends'  lives and intended to write something similar.  I never started, somewhat deterred by an old and dear schoolfriend dubbing  my decade as  'unremitting, especially the second half';  apt, but not an adjective  one associates with entertaining reading ( Read more... )

Women at that age where they are most likely to be juggling work issues, teenagers, aging parents, midlife crisis partners and divorce may suffer health and stress effects ( Read more... )

Now where are those baby photos...

So this is the real reason for the Roomba?

Yesterday I contrived to blink my way unto the great outdoors, complete with "He who still smiles inanely". Well, I say outdoors but after the brief shock of natural daylight the reality was a field trip to the hell that is the land of Blue and Yellow during the school hols. This was necessitated by the failure of a raid on the home ( Read more... )

Himself is 'In'. I'm working on not being dead. I'm many weeks behind on LJ.

AKICIF- can someone point me quickly at a easily printable pdf or similar of the Paris Metro? Lost map, running late

How did you come to start your LJ?
....from slemslempike but from ages ago...

How did you come to start your LJ?Following friends. I wasn't looking for yet-another-group-to-track at that time. In particular I had resisted moving much stuff to blogs, especially 'social network' type blogs, but as more friends moved here from usenet/mail lists I eventually ( Read more... )

Randomly:

courtesy of drachii, a low and cunning trick designed to distract me from the million other things he should be doing .

via annafdd - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7776450.stm
I feel the residents of Foxtrot Road have some explaining to do - I mean I've heard of gender swaps but species swaps? (frankie_ecap - I have not forgotten, I will mail you to ( Read more... )

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