I'll do a more detailed post when I'm able to think better. On Friday writerdahling and myself headed up to Chichester for the aforementioned conference, which was posted about a couple of months ago in the SciFi Facebook group. Couldn't pass on that! It got even better when upon further investigation of the event I discovered that one of the speakers from the ( Read more... )

Sooooo, not posted for a while. Most of that is down to recent activity. Around 6 weeks ago I moved into a house-share with writerdahling and Biscuit, her cat. It's worked out really well, though Biscuit does try to manipulate us (the other week he got his Mummy up and downstairs from an afternoon nap on the pretence that he hadn't been given his tea - he had, ( Read more... )

So, I am sat on the floor of the house in which I now reside. I moved about 2 1/2 weeks ago and am now housemates with writerdahling and Biscuit, her very handsome and adorable lap-whore of a cat. Seriously, he's a total lap-whore - you know the 3-second rule in which you can nick someone's seat if they've vacated it for 3 seconds? Biscuit has his own 3-second ( Read more... )

So, first of all, on Thursday evening I will be going up to Bristol and Friday morning I will be bringing writerdahling back with me TO OUR HOUSE! The letting agent we've been dealing with has been fantastic and managed to tweak things rent-wise. Andy from Fulfords is a STAR. Oh, and he thinks Nerf guns are the coolest thing EVER. May have to drop him one of ( Read more... )

So, this morning (well, lunchtime by the time I've got back from Southampton) I had a phone conversation with the letting agent I've been dealing with over the house for me and writerdahling. I am beyond furious. The landlady has removed the house completely from the rental market. In other words, a week before I'm due to get the keys, we lose it. The letting ( Read more... )

I have been utterly dreadful about keeping up with LJ recently. I've not even been reading my friends list, let alone posting! I've not been having a great time of it - the weather, a chest infection that won't quite shift, a cold I got whilst still in the throes of the chest infection, now I've got something that's knocked me sideways a bit...

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I've had something of a mixed week. I've got some sort of chest infection that I've been ordered by a minimum of 3 people (Mum, Gideon, Kat) to see my GP about. They've got a point, though, coz it's been going on too long. I was coughing far too much for Kat's liking yesterday when we went round town. Normally I avoid town on a Saturday like the ( Read more... )

I've not updated for ages, partly because I keep forgetting and partly because my laptop died 2 weeks ago. I have a new one, which I got yesterday, but either it or my internet aren't co-operating. I'm waiting till Friday before I do anything about it because it could just be that somehow I've hit my monthly limit (when you do that with Virgin, ( Read more... )

The following is no joke, no prank, no leg-pull - after all, it's October 12th, not April 1st and it's also gone midday.

Atos are sponsoring the Paralympics.

http://planetpmc.blogspot.com/2011/10/threat-of-boycott-as-atos-healthcare.html

I'm not surprised, in all honesty. DIsgusted, appalled, horrified, etc. - definitely. But not surprised because of ( Read more... )