Last month I logged into Livejournal for the first time in a while and was greeted by a message prompting me to accept the site's updated T&Cs because the company has moved to Russia. Long story short, I am not happy about this. Livejournal has changed a lot since that fateful day back in 2004 when I first created my account, and not always for the ( Read more... )

Let me tell you something random about me today that came up recently but that I don't recall ever discussing with anyone outside of my family before ( Read more... )

While I've barely posted anything on here last year (at this point there are still more posts from 2015 on the blog's front page than posts from 2016), I do want to keep up the tradition of my annual "year in review" post. Time for those forty questions!

( Cut for space )

Well, the die has been cast. I was wondering whether it was a dark omen that the day of the referendum saw torrential downpours across the South-East while thunder and lightning were roaring/flashing above. It was as if the sky itself was maddened by the stupidity of it all ( Read more... )

Less than a month left until the UK will vote on whether to remain in the EU or leave it. I've been trying not to think about it too much, but it's hard to escape it now, what with the information/propaganda campaigns going into overdrive ( Read more... )

On Friday, after a very tiring week, I came home to find Mark telling me that our boiler wasn't working because it was showing a "low pressure" light. We weren't aware of any leaks this time but weren't sure what to do. I shot our landlords an e-mail but we spent the weekend being cold ( Read more... )

I've been commuting for a month now. I still don't like it, but I'm coping ( Read more... )

The time has come! I've actually been looking forward to making this post because 2015 has been an interesting and overall positive year for me.

( 2015 in Review )

For the first time since 2009 I spent Christmas in Austria with my family, and Mark came along for the ride.

( Here's what happened )

When I traipsed through the hallway on Monday morning, I stepped into something wet. I asked Mark if he had noticed or done anything that could have caused said wet patch, but his answer was negative. We were mildly intrigued but it didn't seem immediately worrying, so we went to work as normal ( Read more... )