During that mega heatwave last weekend, particularly on Monday, I sat there doing nothing, and literally watched my arms come up all blotchy and red and strawberry-rashy from the sheer heat of the air. Not nice. Thank goodness for fans. And absolutely no love whatsoever for high summer ( Read more... )

THREE WEEKS ( Read more... )

A nice thing to discover while doing a random Google. As you may remember, I've had a yen for Allott for over 10 years now, since encountering "Aunt Sally Speaks" randomly during GCSE exam papers. Now he has a Wikipedia bio ( Read more... )

Belated, I know, but... that's not a bad thing. Is it? Been back at work for a week now, with the weekend in between. Quite reflective at present. Thoughtful, although not quite sure about what. Finally saw the last episode of Vicar of Dibley, so now I know there REALLY were Daleks in it and I wasn't having my head messed with by weird rumours ( Read more... )

My Christmas was fantastic, spent with the Dragon's family, and I can only describe it as a really warm, marvellous family Christmas, slightly marred by the fact that the Dragon and his Pater were both down with some kind of lurgy. But it was rather a lovely day ( Read more... )

I swear that as the Great Deity Overhead is my witness, my New Year's Resolution for 2008 is going to be to socialise more. To meet with friends and make time to go out with mates and make time to catch up with people in person ( Read more... )

It seems that I'm not receiving all the email sent via my Livejournal email forwarding address - which really is quite tiresome as it's the main reason I continue to pay LJ. Anyone else having this same issue?

Dialogue seen today. A classless, trashy person had already shared several gross-out stories including how exactly they induced labour. (in repulsive detail) and decided to tell us about how their 10 year old son walked in from the next room just as she'd had her 3rd baby, and the afterbirth was "plopped by the nurse on the table". And apparently ( Read more... )

I was reported for completely random, innocuous posts - one just said "I don't know who to proxy for". That was all - in relation to a giveaway on the boards ( Read more... )

It seems that having a picture of Eugene the Jeep in your signature on the Ebay boards can get you BANNED from posting on the boards ( Read more... )