I'm doing a 5k today for the Stroke Association today. I'm doing it to raise money for them but I'm also doing it to lay some ghosts. Three years ago I took part in the 5k, a few months after my father died as a result of a stroke and before I realised how needy my mother actually was ( Read more... )

I had lunch at the new Hard Rock Cafe in Glasgow yesterday. I won't be back. I was dubious about the place as I had looked at their menu and couldn't see much that was vegetarian. However, my work has a birthday lunch tradition and the new Hard Rock Cafe was the chosen venue ( Read more... )

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After posting yesterday's comments on my inability to get any response from Loncon3 about my membership it has now been sorted out. I had emailed the convention on several occasions but got no reply until I posted my little rant on Livejournal, Facebook and Twitter ( Read more... )

I am getting more than a bit annoyed with Loncon 3 ( Read more... )

I'm very glad I didn't wait around for the Loncon 3 hotel bookings to open up ( Read more... )

I hope 2014 is a good one for everyone.

I've been doing more clearing out of stuff. It's so that I can make my place my own and not have boxes of other people's stuff getting in my way and on my tits. I've been doing it gradually but I can see progress being made ( Read more... )

What a strange series of dreams I had last night. First of all I dreamt that a guy was bringing his wife or girlfriend to a house he shared with several other guys. One of these guys was trying to hide an elephant in the garage and the wife kept wondering why the house was shaking. Then she went into the kitchen and discovered that they didn't ( Read more... )

I've just spent some time going through some of the stuff I brought from my parents' house. Most of it is simply photos, I managed to save very little else as I had some thought that I would be able to get mementos etc from the house after the will was sorted out (at the very least). Well, I was wrong and so all I really have are the photos I was ( Read more... )