Bridesmaid dress fittings for Em&Andy's wedding last night, and by god the shop woman faffed ( Read more... )

Like several other friends on here, I wrote to my MP, Michael Meacher, regarding this Bill ( Read more... )

ellistar and I have heard very loud scratching noises in the house these last couple of nights.

I do hope this doesn't mean that a mouse has moved in again. You know what happened last time, and I value my frying pans.

I've fallen in the habit of only posting either to communicate something specific, or to capture something that I want to remember.

This is one of the latter.

The weekend just gone was spent in Venice for the wedding of westernind & forbinprojectI gloss over the hideousness of the 8 hour journey of interconnecting flights via Frankfurt, and the surpassing horrendously ( Read more... )

I suspect I'm probably very, very late with this, and that anyone who's interested read it years ago.

But just in case I'm wrong, here's a link to Neil Gaiman's "I, Cthulhu":

http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/essay07.asp

Watch until the end of this advert; it's the best bit.

http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=23883

I'm not sure how many LJ'ers know them but:

Matt & Karen Jakeman have had a baby girl, Amy Eileen Janet, 23rd November, 7.10pm, 7lb 10oz.

If you do know them, then you may know how many problems Karen has previously had getting successfully to term, and therefore how important this is to them.

ellistar and I spent this weekend at Arthur Findlay Spiritualist College at Stansted Hall doing a course.

( To protect those who are not interested in such matters )

I had a horrendously busy weekend ( Read more... )

Can any kind friend in the Brum area offer ellistar and I a bed for the night of Anita's birthday party on the 19th November?

Pretty please?