Blimey. Three years since I last posted in here. Pretty difficult to sum up what's happened in three years in a blog, unless it's going to run to 300 pages. So, I will summise.

Got married
Still married
Have two new cats - Pickle and Muffin (pictured), both bonkers
Got made redundant
Got offered a secondment for six months - ended up staying for 18
Got ( Read more... )

One week today and I'll be an old married bird. How scary is that. One week left of being a Longhurst. That's the strangest thing. Changing my name. And I'm not looking forward to changing my name with my bank, car insurance, etc, etc. And I'm definitely not going to change my e-mail address for a long time. The thought of having to go to all the ( Read more... )

I love the spring it's my favourite time of the year.

But I hate fucking hay fever!

Tiger is installed and running. Finally got it delivered today. I also bought a Lacie d2 hard drive yesterday as well and got a bit worried about all the reports of people who couldn't use their external drives after installing Tiger. I decided to disconnect everything, apart from my keyboard and mouse, before installing doing an archive and ( Read more... )

http://www.somethingawful.com/cliff/ihateyou/page-01.htm

262 pages of pure genius, which has resulted in me doing sod all at work today

After the traumatic events mentioned below, one slightly important bit of news got overshadowed. Yes, the old ginger spinster is finally getting married. September 1 is the date, although this will be confirmed on Friday when we give our notice of marriage to the Registrar. There wasn't any dramatic proposals of marriage or anything - we just ( Read more... )

The weekend started off high, then really sucked the big one by Saturday night. My poor little cat, Teazle, who is a year and a half old, died. We lost his brother in the summer, but watched Teazle develop into a complete madcap. He was so much fun. He had such a great character. But on Saturday night he came flying through the catflap (as he ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting here, at work, hooked up to heart monitor. Oh what joy. Three weeks ago I started getting these weird palpatations, which I'd never had before. They went on for a week, on and off. Then one Sunday night, while slobbed out in front of the TV, they started getting really bad. So much so, I was getting dizzy and thought I was going to ( Read more... )

I have been temporarily deafened by that old foghorn Anastacia. Bought tickets for Billy to see her (although he's more interested in her cleavage), and we saw her last night. By god, she's got a loud voice. Didn't help that her two backing singers could belt out a tune as loud as she could. I'm not really an Anastacia fan, but she was pretty good ( Read more... )

Just come back from a three-day trip to Northumberland. Twas a trip of mixed fortunes. I spent one day salmon-fishing. Duncan, a friend who came with us, caught two 14-pounders. Then I hooked one. The battle went on for more than half an hour. It was like having a slab of concrete at the end of my line. Anyway, with every muscle in my shoulder ( Read more... )