Have you noticed? I'm trying to start a LJ renaissance. Between meetings ( Read more... )

Lastly night was my second night in a row of strangely disturbing dream activity. I notice I seem to get a surge of this sort of thing now and again. The night before last I dreamed I was looking at myself in a mirror and could see a network of very dark raised veins all across my chest. Since I find anything to do with imagery around the ( Read more... )

This summer seems frantically busy, and it's whipping past like a chaotic dream in some respects. Tomorrow my sister and I are off to The Big Chill - I've wanted to go and see what it's like for ages. Now it's happening, I think I'm more interested in the idea of just having some time away with my sister hanging out in a field somewhere, and it'll ( Read more... )

Moto asked me this morning what's up -- I haven't been 'blogging much. The answer to why haven't I been 'blogging is basically Facebook. My main motivation for using here was general online social interaction, and it's so much easier to do that there. I feel like it reduces the drivel content here, which can't be a bad thing -- I used to do several ( Read more... )

After sneering at them for as long as possible, I finally bought a TomTom last weekend. It got me to a friend's housewarming at an unfamiliar location, and last night it got me to West Kensington. New car plus new electronic navigator (I love the way she says 'roundabout' - it's the one with the Irish accent) FTW. The return trip from London would ( Read more... )

My visitor returned from on Saturday after a week back in Spain. This evening she said to me that while she'd been away she had missed my cooking. In fact I think my cooking has been pretty unimpressive in the past few days. I was home alone last week, and my appetite's not what it usually is due to heat, humidity and a little over-excitement too, ( Read more... )

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Dear refectory,

Pickled onions in the ragout - an interesting idea. Did you pick that one up from Masterchef?