Got back from holiday yesterday, and it was a terrific one; just me, the bike, and millions of Scottish sheep and cows (and the occasional B&B landlord). How to live like a hermit in Scotland for seven days...but I was able to do exactly what I wanted, whenever I wanted. Which involved an insane amount of cycling, because apart from having to see ( Read more... )

Today was laundry day, so I put two loads in, and they're both done now, at precisely the time it starts hailing (and rain to come, probably). And my matchbox house hasn't even the room to hang up one load, let alone two. Fabulous ( Read more... )

starrose17 has come up with this new craze: dragon eggs. Of course I jumped on the bandwagon, and here it is!


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Again the commercial that makes my blood boil: 'carspotting'. There is a text service where you can enter a car's licence plate and it tells you how much it would cost (nice for second hand cars). There is one thing that puzzles me though: how does that service get its info without compromising car owners' privacy? As far as I'm aware licence ( Read more... )

I was thoroughly sickened this morning when I checked my friends' pages and found a link to the The Daily Kos with eye witness reports and video footage from the streets around the republican party convention in St. Paul. While it makes me profoundly grateful that I don't live in the US, the sight of police teargassing a man in a wheelchair is ( Read more... )

...and I didn't make ten o'clock because the kitten was slow in getting out of the tree. But I am proud of myself: I didn't panic, I didn't think I had to climb in to get her (as if! it was dark by then!) and I calmly stood underneath the tree and banged a spoon on a can of meat for what seemed like half an hour. And like all her predecessors, she ( Read more... )

I just finished my last day at the book shop I have been working for the last seven years...and am struggling to let it sink in. It started as a student job, turned into a full time occupation for a while, and was an extra source of pocket money for the last year, when I made the step into education. And now I have to really commit to my career ( Read more... )

Muahaha we're going to read Of Mice and Men in class from next week on, and I found this picture
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Very belated, but oh! the possibilities...


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Now I don't regularly participate in memes, but this looked like a nice thing to do...snagged it from lovely_slyth's blog, so it's only fair to post it in my own blog asap ( Read more... )