Sad news about Ian Banks.. one of the few authors I've read and genuinely enjoyed, who assisted my love of writing.

Love the "would you do me the honour of becoming my widow?" proposition.

..by the council. Cost me £35. They're very poor quality and one of them doesn't even have the car in. I shall have to complain.


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I think I feel a little better now.. trying to spread the love rather than... other things.

Car passed its MoT with no advisories.. another year for the mad little beast.

It's been four weeks since Heather died. She hung herself a few doors down from me. A neighbour and good friend Simian found her ( Read more... )

RIP our absent friends.

Last I heard the Japanese government was dropping water from helicopters onto reactor buildings. I can't see how this would help matters, no usable amount of water can be dropped from the air into a reactor building, even if it was in bits, so I think they're actually referring to the spent fuel pond at Reactor 4, which seems to be running dry and ( Read more... )

Well, I dunno about you, but these continuing LOCAs at the Fukushima plant seems to be getting more serious and intruiging by the minute. Unfortunately the media keeps using meaninglessly subjective atomic jargon like "meltdown" and "criticality" and "Chernobyl" which basically amounts to filler to paper over the bits nobody has much of a chance ( Read more... )

There's not much information about it anywhere at the moment, but a Japanese nuclear plant sounds like it's seriously close to experiencing a LOCA (Loss Of Coolant Accident ( Read more... )

Who can tell me, without looking any details up, why this is one of the most horrifyingly tense and profound photos of the 20th century?


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I had a dream the other night where I had to rescue Emma from an 80s nightclub.

The clientelle seemed to be a selection of utter bastards, they were forcing her to stay and they didn't like the idea of a man-friend coming to pick her up at all. They surrounded us and looked most violent and threatening ( Read more... )