Poor journal. Locked in the coal shed with only woodlice and the occasional foolhardy sparrow to eat, then dragged out into the harsh light with high promises of regular updates and a return to its days in the sun, then cast back into the darkness to stare at a locked door.

But I do think about it, I do want to update. I’m always waiting for ( Read more... )

I see what you’re thinking. You lie awake in the wee small hours, pause in your daily toil and are distracted from your love-making by the thought: this is not the frenzy of fascinating Livejournal updates Jenny led me to expect ( Read more... )

A shaft of light, a stranger to this place, creaks tremulously across the journal, sending the woodlice scuttling for cover.Oh god, look at the state of this journal! So many generations of spiders have made their home here that the cobwebs could get on the listed buildings register. The dust! The rot! There are mushrooms ( Read more... )

Evenin’ all ( Read more... )

I would like to announce that everything is bollocks. I loathe this job and if I thought it was permanent I would kill myself ( Read more... )

Oh Morag, where did you get that dreadful list of books that was so bad you had to do your own? This one is much better (although it is still nonsense because Good Omens is not number one, even though everyone knows it wipes the floor with all other books ever written).

I got this from twinkem , who has read almost twice as many of these as I have, which ( Read more... )

...There is a holiday post, albeit almost three weeks after I got home. I have actually tried to make it brief and abridged, but stuff and things happened, you know ( Read more... )

I am back from the Bonzo-Bulgarian-Trans-Romanian adventure, and there will be a large picture post coming soon to a friends page near you, but I thought I'd wait until I get the other half of the photos from Garry, as he has all the interior shots of Castle Bran (because they make you pay for each camera you take in), and hit you with it all at ( Read more... )

It seems my plan to get back into regular posting is not going well, although I've been keeping up with all your entries, as I'm now off on my holidays for a week with the Garrycliffe. It seems rather too decadent, investing in a paid account and never posting on it ( Read more... )

Hello all ( Read more... )