( my year, in 40 statements )

Monkey just brought me a rather large, rather tasty latte from the very good coffee shop down the road (ie not Starbucks...). We're going to do our Secret Santa thing in an hour (taking a wild stab at mine being a calendar here, let's see... it's flat, square, about the size of a calendar... *g* ETA Yup - a Lost calendar - very cool! Just one thing ( Read more... )

Grrr. My work has disabled my FTP access to my site from this PC as part of their new security procedures so I can't update the site until I get home and I'm heading to the cinema tonight (frantic calls from my brother-in-law notwithstanding of course!) so one day on and already it's out of date...

But, it's up and running!

The Reformed Watchers ( Read more... )

I am lameness personified. Either that or I'm getting old. It's not even 9pm yet and I'm sitting in my PJs thinking seriously about making a cup of tea (lemon and ginger - throat's a little raspy) and heading to bed ( Read more... )

Never rains but it pours ( Read more... )

Wow. It's a strange feeling to be in a shop and hand over a lot of money all at once. £139 in one go. The glasses are kinda cute - not the designer pair she was trying to get me to buy - but I won't get them for another four or five working days. So that'll be next weekend before I can pick them up - unless my sister goes into labour early (she's ( Read more... )

Oh how do I wish my light meter had been working properly on my camera?! Got the films back from the Saturday and there's some really well framed and in perfect focus pictures - but they're *really* dark ( Read more... )

So it turns out that even more than not getting to sleep in the first place, being woken up from a deep sleep by a scraping noise which seems designed for the sole purpose of putting ones teeth on edge is the worst thing that could have happened last night ( Read more... )

I've finally worked out what the deal is with my neighbour. He and his current girlfriend are one of those couples who fight all the time and after she's stormed out and roared off in her car (pushing first gear way past i's limit so that everyone in the village knows she's on the road) he puts on really loud music and starts doing housework. Right ( Read more... )

Getting ready to go out shopping and I've got National Geographic on. There's a show about the Hunting Hounds of Arabia on and I'm just sitting here going "Awww!" at the little Saluki pup learning to hunt ( Read more... )