There's still a slim hope. The referendum wasn't legally binding: the House of Commons still need to vote to exit the EU ( Read more... )

Our two reamining windows 7 hold out machines have nothing except a little notification in the system tray. There's never been any nag screens while presenting weather on TV, or forced installations while livestreaming a computer game over the internet (although to be fair, there been no weather presenting or livestreaming at all ( Read more... )

Did have a long post detailing our travails over the last 3 years, but livejournal just ate it ( Read more... )

Watched Frank on the way to work last week. I don't know much about Frank Sidebottom other than bugshaw used to like him, and the album of his I copied for her a couple of decades ago didn't appeal to my 19-year-old taste. But he was a comedian as well as a musician, so I expected Frank to be amusing: probably in a wacky, "look at his silly head mask" ( Read more... )

Sorry we've been crap with Christmas cards this year, but moving house/flat kind of ate our time. We'll send out our new address in a couple of days when they're less likely to be lost in a deluge of happy Christmas posts like this :-)

As sielis said, "that was worse than Spock's Brain". I'm struggling to think of anything I've seen or read where the science was worse.

Having heard that the tv series is going to soon overtake the books, I've started watching the former. If I'm going to be spoilered by a bunch of teevee watchers, I may as well jkoin them ( Read more... )

12 May 2014 ( Read more... )

My tax affairs are not complicated. All my income is PAYE, I receive no interest from investments (thanks to an offset mortgage). I have a few P11D expenses, and a few charity payments: both just breaking into the 3-figure range. You would have thus thought that my tax return would be simple (it is) and that any corrections would be no more than a ( Read more... )

See my Google+ post

Not quite sure how to split my posts between LJ and G+, or whether at least for public posts, there's an automatic way to do it. For the time being this style post will have to do...