Saw this said, in all sincerity, on Twitter today:

"If free speech has consequences it isn't free anymore. Otherwise, the term would be meaningless."

You can see it here: http://frankthecomic.livejournal.com/25276.html

I made up the bed in the spare room at the weekend, folded a clothes horse worth of towels and bedding and put it away in the hotpress, after tidying the hotpress. And with that last task, order was restored to our wee house again ( Read more... )

We took Dad out on Good Friday. It started with getting tickets to a jazz concert in a bookshop, and I tacked dinner on beforehand just because one of our favourite restaurants is up the same end of town. The concert was special for Dad, not just because it was jazz. The drummer was his cousin's son, Darren B, and Dad had been following his career ( Read more... )

The sheer pleasure to be had from not having to set a alarm clock when you go to bed.

I saw Fergus running, heading home with something in his mouth. I ran for the plastic cup of cat biscuits - its rattle is one thing almost guaranteed to get his attention. I opened the back door, rattling the cup, only to find Fergus already on the step ( Read more... )

New financial year, that is. Always a crazy time when your work has put you on a civil service contract. But I survived the usual year end panic and stress in work without any major disasters ( Read more... )

It was raining on Saturday morning. Soft grey clouds, the roofs silvered with rain, and a sense that the weather could keep it up all day ( Read more... )

The week before last in work was a tough one, filled with demos from potential new suppliers to our customer ( Read more... )

On the whole, the NI Science Festival crowd was a good one. Nicely geeky and fairly easy going about queues, seating and so on. But a couple of things irritated me and I'm putting them down here to get them out of my brain ( Read more... )