I found an email about this in my spam folder ( Read more... )

Here's a mention to this excellent tea garden near Whitby. I can really recommend it. Someone from work pointed me at it, otherwise I wouldn't have known it was there ( Read more... )

Check out m'house.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-29750527.html

It's finally happening. Scary stuff.

Someone at work is helping to run a fundraising event in Hitchin. Please feel free to link to people who might be interested. I have left this public.
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We are trying to raise money for the relief effort in Japan, which has suffered from the recent earthquake & tsunami. The full extent of the damage to the Fukushima ( Read more... )

I feel like giving my opinions on stuff and this is the internet, so why not? Whilst I was away from LJ, I watched a prodigious number of TV box sets. Here is my run down of them for your reading (and perhaps viewing) pleasure. It's fairly unlikely you won't have seen them already, but if not, maybe it will be useful. And if you have, you might ( Read more... )

What an annoying day! I've spent most of the day, barring sporadic detours to my friends page, looking for jobs. I've applied for a sum total of one. That's right, one. I managed two yesterday in half the time. Pfft ( Read more... )

Here is my attempt at choosing 15 significant albums in 15 minutes. My brain is not really functioning so I have probably forgotten important ones.

1) The Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
2) The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
3) Patti Smith - Horses
4) Prodigy - Experience
5) Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
6) Joni Mitchell - Blue
7) Amy ( Read more... )

In one of the philosophy papers I read earlier this year there was a short quotation from a poem which piqued my interest so I went to look for it.

It is by an American modernist poet called Wallace Stevens.

Asides on the Oboe

The prologues are over. It is a question, now,
Of final belief. So, say that final belief
Must be in a fiction. It is time ( Read more... )

McAfee just took £49.99 from me without my telling them to, they notified me by email, from "payment information they had on file". I've told them not to but I'm a bit bewildered. This just seems like theft.

Whilst looking for a new corset I came across this website, which seems to have all the corset making stuff in the world. Dunno if it is any good but I thought I'd put it up in case.

http://www.venacavadesign.co.uk/Products/