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A perfect weekend
This weekend has been, as much as anything can be, perfect.
A had a magic night with my beloved, followed by a day full of sparkly people and flamey things. teh_elb, loneraven and shimgray all came across from The Other Place (braving all sorts of perilous roundabouts) for the occasion. Once again the Eyot was transformed, this time with burning ( Read more... ) -
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I was linked to this performance from a forum today, and it really is worth watching: a contestant from Australia's X-Factor auditions and tells his story.
(disclaimer: you have to overlook the heavy handed mood music and the mawkish judges, and the fact they congratulate the singer on his 'courage' rather than him being a very good singer)
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the story that keeps on giving
Seen doing the rounds on Twitter, I snorted my coffee over half_of_monty 's RT of this one:
"Rebekah Brooks resigned! Sky bid dropped! NotW extinct! Only four horcruxes left to go and Murdoch will be mortal again!" -
...either not been proven to work, or been proven not to work
Homeopaths want your opinion on whether they should be allowed to advertise 'what conditions they treat' among other things.
Have at it!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KJL3D2N -
question
hmmm, last night someone suggested 'you should learn X on the ukulele'. Possibly vkbar. Can anyone remember? -
Letting go and letting my fish companions guide me
This might be a joke, but it's the funniest thing I've seen all week. The fish pedicure of births. -
retail dilemma
After failing to find my stethoscope in the house move, despite trawling through all my possessions, I can only conclude that it has indeed disappeared from my office at work. This is a bit crappy, but it's long gone now. So, in advance of going back to the wards in August, I will need a new one. I'm thinking the master cardiology is unnecessary ( Read more... ) -
I pity the poor immigrant
This consultation released today sets out the Tory plans for changing settlement to the UK. It suggests that any worker coming to the UK on a Tier 2 visa from April this year should be barred from settling permanently. Unless of course they have a salary over £150k.
I'm not sure what I think about this. My current thoughts are mainly 'thank god I ( Read more... ) -
Hypothetical
If a storyline from Grey's Anatomy demonstrated a point I wanted to make in an essay, how inappropriate would it be to cite it?
What if it was really, really pertinent?
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I may be many things, but not being indiscrete is not one of them
Contracts have been exchanged! We are now legally bound to buy a large pile of bricks, that I remember really really liking when I got to look around it 2 months ago.... Hopefully when we get the keys next Thursday I'll still love it. I'm sure I will. There was a bit of a saga over the conveyancing, which eventually came down to haggling over a $ ( Read more... )