Christmas card from shrinetolust!!! Thank you, lovely! :)

I am tired of the winter. It goes on too long.

pepysdiary went to the pub last night and "had a very fine dinner, good musique, and a great deal of wine. We staid here very late, at last Sir W. Pen and I home together, he so overcome with wine that he could hardly go; I was forced to lead him through the ( Read more... )

...and far too much to drink.

So last night at the pub someone spoiled OotP for me.

Me: "No, don't tell me. Don'ttellmedon'ttellmedon'ttellmedon'ttellme -- Oohhh you told me." Hm. So having declared left, right and centre that I 'didn't really care', I obviously had to try and numb the pain with several large vodka tonics. And then several ( Read more... )

A nice thing happened to me today. I was buying a bottle of wine for the kind person who was forced to drive all the way to Cambridge to pick me up when I stupidly missed my train last Sunday, and the Marks & Spencers lady said, apologetically, "I'm going to have to ask you your age..." YES! I am 28! I nearly danced a jig.

Also, clara_swift gave me a first ( Read more... )

Polite NoticePlease do not feed alcohol to the mad lady. It makes her do silly things ( Read more... )

Oh, I'm just so *good* at wasting time. It's my greatest talent.

Reading back over my journal (another example of simply excellent timewasting) I've noticed that I come across as a provincial alcoholic. Not true, I say! No.

So. I really enjoyed this little lij/dom fic by novanumbernine: Canal Street

And for those Cumming-lovers amongst you, the lovely rochefort was ( Read more... )

I feel restless These biscuits I'm eating taste funny. Wrong. They're Hobnobs, but there's a hint of something else... can it possibly be sausage? Yes - it's just the teeniest hint of the hotdogs you get at school fetes - slightly blackened on the outside, slightly raw on the inside - barbecued by someone's dad. Ketchup, onions. Then you go and ( Read more... )

I feel good today. I found a Fray Bentos pie at the back of the cupboard which I didn't know I had. To me, this is a good thing. Others may not agree ( Read more... )