I have been recording films onto DVD from the telly. Which isn't technically illegal.

'My Neighbour Totoro' is sharing a disk with 'Silence of the Lambs'.

I have a sore throat, and a burn on my arm, but I don't mind either of these because I no longer have a swollen foot/ankle, which means I can once again wear any of my shoes ( Read more... )

For the longest time, I thought 'war drums' in this song was actually 'wardrobe'. Linguistically, I can understand why, but 'rhythm of the wardrobe' makes absolutely no sense. At least now the song doesn't make me think of Narnia.

I also thought 'gettin' jiggy wit it' in Will Smith's song was 'hit a chicken with it'.

I was foolishly outside in the garden for much of Toast's housewarming party, and got my legs bitten. Bloody mosquitoes got my left ankle three times, and now, two days later, it is looking like a strange balloon. It is full of fluid, and movement, including walking, is very painful. I am writing this while lying flat on my back, legs up against ( Read more... )

How many books are there which made me go cold, or punch the air in celebration when I figured out a plot link? I could count them on one hand ( Read more... )

I did some maths. Acutally, that's a lie, I did some counting, and I discovered that if Word Salad gets over 73 subscribers next year, we will not have enough money to produce magazines for them all.

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(Apologies to people who are reading this for the second or maybe third time - I'm trying to catch as many people as possible ( Read more... )

On my way to work, I went to Tesco, and I bought ten 1.5Kg bags of self-raising flour. Tesco only had 9 bags of the one-up-from-'value'-but-not-as-posh-as-branded range, so I took them all, and one from a branded range. I attracted some fairly puzzled looks as I emptied the shelf, and also got flour leakage on my tights. I then stumbled to the ( Read more... )

...let me show you them!

I have made some earrings:


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Bollocks. Crashed. I hate when I do that.