I don't usually feel the need to vent here but I'm getting a mite tetchy. Having arranged for a gas fitter to come in yesterday and hook up the new cooker (literally a case of removing the pipe from the old hob and sticking it in the new appliance) he never turned up, although he did ring at 8pm to say he'd been working in an empty house with no ( Read more... )

I have not been feeling particularly with it the last couple of days - nothing more than a sore throat and slight sniffles, but seeing as I rarely get ill my brain seems to have taken it as an excuse to take time off... Consequently with stuff to prep for the Gathering, kitchen to decorate, scripts to write and all sorts of other demands on my time ( Read more... )

Here's a publication that I've only had a chance to take a brief look at but could well be inspirational for those of us who dabble in the Steampunk genre...

I'm sure this one's been about for a while, but I found it a lot more amusing than discovering what sort of Transformer/Star Trek Character/species of frog I'm supposed to be. Type "*your name* likes to" into google and list the top ten.

Chris likes to...

• mess with telemarketers
• talk on the phone
• alcohol!  (Yup)
  
• go along with Sonic
• participate in ( Read more... )

Today we received a small-ish hand addressed envelope which had unfortunately come open in the mail and lost its contents.

The postmark is illegible, apart from the date (which was Monday) and it was hand addressed to "Chris and Lauren" in blue ink. Does anyone recognise it??!

Action-packed day yesterday with camera working overtime (you have been warned...)

To begin with I crawled out of bed at 6.30am. Lauren was off galivanting around spalding (if that's at all possible) doing Unicorn Plot Stuff (allegedly, although I gather alcohol was involved too) so at least I didn't have the sight of her still curled up asleep to ( Read more... )

Our washing machine has a New Brain. It cost £40 and Lauren and I just fitted it ourselves after the old one blew up...

Edit: Then it exploded again. Bloody technology.

Last weekend we celebrated Mr Michael Jones's penultimate weekend of bachelorhood with a fun packed trip to Nottingham. Deciding to brave the elements most of us elected to camp at a convenient site next to the Nottingham water-sports centre we'd be visiting the next day. The weather proceeded to be elemental in the extreme, and the planned jape of ( Read more... )

Spent yesterday evening with a bunch of the guys and gal's over at ours reading through the first six Jack Steel scripts. Neil, James, Lucy, Pete A, Nige and Lauren took most of the voice parts whilst Chris, Slava, Nadia and Simon mostly played the part of an unwitting audience. Wayne and I provided human-beat-box style sound effects whilst also ( Read more... )

My sister's cat has had kittens...