Over the weekend I had some more Couchsurfers staying, this time two 18 year old girls from Estonia, on their first travelling experience to London and Paris.  My profile says that I only put up one person at a time (because of the lounge being quite small), but they emailed me and asked if I'd make an exception as they hadn't been able to find ( Read more... )

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Yesterday I had my hair cut, it feels great when I put my hands through it now.  Then I went to the Student Union at Kings College to watch The Organ, along with lots of other girls with short hair, by the looks of things.  The Organ are known to be a band who are very detached on stage, and the gig was pretty much a rendition of the album Grab ( Read more... )

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Is anybody else actually enjoying the hot weather in London, or am I the only one?  I love walking down the street and feeling like I'm not in England; the dusty heat, the sun on my bare shoulders.  It reminds me of the Meditarranean, of Tunisia, of Cuba.  I feel so much happier than I did just too weeks ago, partly because things are changing so ( Read more... )

Once upon a time when I lived in Swansea, there were only two clubs in the whole town that were intended for the likes of me.  One was the dark, dingy, sticky floored Zone indie club, the other was the chrome mirror balled, fag hagging gay club H2O.  Most of my friends at the time were conveniently divided along these lines, gay or indie.  This ( Read more... )

I think that I must be the only person in London who didn't see the giant elephant this weekend.  With my cold still persisting and my nose still streaming I didn't think it would be a good idea to go and stand in the rain, even for the elephant's sake, so the weekend was mostly spent indoors doing what can only be described as faffing.  I spent a ( Read more... )

The weekend started on Thursday night when Rick arrived from Manchester to stay. I've been signed off work by the doctor for the last two weeks, and have spent most of it monging around the house, trying to find the energy to do the most basic things, so I was desperate for some good company and an excuse to try and get up and do something.  I ( Read more... )