Well I hope you're all having a very nice Bank Holiday weekend, with either Friday or Monday off, or both if you're lucky. Because I'm not. We don't get Easter here. (here being Scotland). This is partly retribution for our disgusting debauchery at New Year when we get an extra holiday on Jan 2nd to recover, while our stay-up-till-midnight-with- ( Read more... )

Things I Didn't Buy Yesterday:

• A Le Creuset Salt Pig. Obviously a very desireable object, but it was the wrong colour, and far too small for my intensive sodium needs.


• A Professional Egg Pricker. Not just any old egg pricker - none of your rubbishy, underpowered amateur egg prickers, but a professional egg pricker no less! I was tempted (who ( Read more... )

I spent rather more time that is in any way reasonable or sensible in trying to recover a lost couple of pages yesterday. Let me just say that it was not my fault they got lost - I am anal diligent about making backups. I have backups of my backups, and for good measure I also upload things onto servers deep in the bowels of the Interwebs just in ( Read more... )

I have a new computer! Almost.

( Computer Porn )

The snow is back, which is unfortunate, because Saturday was almost pleasant. A balmy 7 C, with the sun noticeably higher and perkier in the sky after these long weeks of it skirting briefly and unenthusiastically along the horizon. A day when you could remember that there are times when it is possible to leave the house without a hat, scarf, ( Read more... )

The latest highly important and significant news story to rock the globe is that a slightly famous* person is chucked off a plane for being too fat. Apparently the airline in question displayed all the professionalism and joined-up-thinking we've come to expect from this industry in dealing with the matter. As a result, feathers were ruffled, and ( Read more... )

Meme-of-the-moment, ganked from mirien, gingerspark et al ( Read more... )

Mary Tudor was reputed to have said "When I die you will find the word Calais engraved on my heart". In my case, it will be the words "Tampax Tampons ( Read more... )

The story about the hacked emails and forged data at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit continues to unfold, and even The Guardian starts to look interested ( Read more... )

On our recent wine-acquiring trip to France, The Husband and I were accompanied by A*, who had also expressed a desire to fill his spare room full of bottles, and enjoy a spot of French cuisine in the process ( Read more... )