We have a new flatmate.
Clompy, YoYo, and Emilie all moved out a couple of weeks ago, and it was looking like we’d be only the four of us in the flat. Very nice it has been too - not having to worry that Clompy will be in the kitchen when we want it, just… generally [...]
Archive for July, 2005
if wishes were horses we’d all be eating steak
there’s nothing worse than an unused noodle
As the badge says, you have to be nice to me, for I am currently sitting here typing with aproximately a pint of blood less than normal swimming around my veins and arteries. Also, due to lack of blood, I am feeling a bit lightheaded and not at all in the mood to type coherent [...]
did you strap cheesecake to your body again?
Ok, had a snooze, and eaten lots of nice sugary things, so I’m feeling a bit more human. Time, I think, to tell you all about the great Cheesecake Debacle of 2005.
Ever since YoYo started making cheesecakes like a little demon six months ago, Moose and myself have, on and off, been heard to mutter [...]
it was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead
Well, I have come up with a use for my other blog, Dark Meadow. If you go over there, you will find a nice introductory post, entitled Welcome to the Dark Meadow blog, and the first of hopefully many reviews of the books in my booklist.
John Wyndham’s “Stowaway to Mars”
And yes, I am aware of [...]
i don’t care if my tea-leaves spell ‘die, ron, die’
(Ooh, what a blog-a-licious weekend this has been. Anything other than reading boring journal articles. There was a point last night when all posts were firstly ‘click here to view the rest of the post’, and then all were hidden till you pressed the magic button, and assorted other doo-dads got played around with, but [...]
i can’t make decisions based on the fact that i like your smooth skin
(NB - in this post I will be trying out a different endnote/sidenote solution that will hopefully work on all browsers. Please let me know what you think.)
Before I forget, I have great news to share - my hair is near as damn it long enough to satisfactorily head-bang once more! Not that head-banging to [...]
it took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
I’m in a funny mood today. Enjoy this, from our friendly neighbourhood animator, Mata: God Makes a Sandwich.
You do find the oddest things in the NYT. The other day, I learned about pillows.
Apparently, “with pillows, the difference comes down to down versus synthetic fill… A good pillow of either stuff should last up to 10 [...]
they’re still angry with me because I accidentally ran over them with my car…
In an attempt to get back to normalcy as swiftly as possible, here are some of the latest offerings from this week in the news:
Ok, so it’s coincidental (they say), but surely the people who designed the logo for use when the UK takes presidency of the EU, looked to see if anything similar had [...]
hatred, even of meanness, contorts the features. anger, even against injustice makes the voice hoarse.
I am not sure how to start a post about the bombings in London. For a while I couldn’t decide even if I should talk about them, but then it was brought home to me that this blog is supposed to be about what has affected me and mine, and it would be churlish to [...]
And then there’s the running, and the screaming
Ok, just got back from seeing “War of the Worlds” with Moose and Jeff, and thought I would give you my first impressions before they faded.
I liked it, which surprises me, because I was fully prepared not to like it. I love the classics (sci-fi that is), such as H. G. Wells, John Wyndham, or [...]
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