This morning I twitted that I had a coldsore. I got a PERSONAL response from lloyds pharmacy recommending me a product. Is that someone's job now? To search for people complaining about coldsores then through advertising directly at them? The message began "Hi Sam, oh no!". WTF WTF WTF?! I'm deeply concerned about this turn of events. It's ( Read more... )

Hello, guess what? Yesterday was my birthday! And a very good birthday it was too. I hopped down to London for the day, for the first time in forever, and hung out with my beautiful London fangirls and talked and laughed and managed to forget how awful the rest of my week was. So yay! Thank you girls for everything, especially to Mags who ( Read more... )

As at some point I should let everyone know I’m alive, here I am, um...letting everyone know I’m alive.

First off, belated birthday wishes to foxestacado, much_reality, firelake_87, holly_cky and doyoucopy. Hope you all had a lovely day ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if this is in every version, but on the inside of the front cover of the British Harry Potter books (the "children's" cover, don't get me started on how much I hate the concept of "adult" covers for fantasy books) there is a picture of J.K Rowling standing in front of a bookcase. And because you can tell a lot about people from what ( Read more... )

Anyone who missed Ruby in the Smoke last night missed something GREAT, I'm telling ya. Billie Piper redeemed herself fully for 'Honey to the Bee' (now there's a sentence I never thought I'd say), Julie Walters was her usual wonderful self and the girl who played Adelaide looked surprisingly like the picture of Lyra I hold in my head. Hmmmmmm. ( Read more... )

I got all four Harry Potter films for Christmas. I've already watched them all. Ooops. *giggle ( Read more... )

I have been in the same car as Philip Pullman!!! Really truly really!!! This is so amazing, it's like, the best thing that ever happened to me!!! The. same. car. OK, so it may have been nearly a year after he sat in it that I did, but still, he was sat there and then I was sat there and and and....ok, I'm being a geek. I don't care. This ( Read more... )