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WARNING!
This is a public service announcement ( Read more... ) -
Autumnwatch
Sorry, gentle readers, for the long gap between entries. I've not really had a lot to say partly due to getting involved in the local Estate Management Board, and partly due to a nasty bout of gastro enteritis ( Read more... ) -
Meme Alert
That book meme. The list is the 106 books most often noted as unread by Library Thing users. Bold is for books I've read. Italics for books I've started but haven't finished (usually because of reading it whilst staying with friends and not having the heart to steal it). Strikethrough would be for books I found unreadable, but there aren't any on ( Read more... ) -
Blood is blood
Managed a 6.1 on my blood glucose reading this afternoon. That's getting back to where it needs to be. Could use losing a few kilos though. I can't seem to get back below 80kg, when I should really be around 75kg ( Read more... ) -
Endangered Species
To whit the garden snail. Specifically Bob ( Read more... ) -
Vampire Day
Fasting blood tests tomorrow morning. Which means an hour or so on the bus followed by a reasonably long walk, then sitting around for an hour or two in the waiting room, before I can eat or drink ANYTHING but water.
I hate Vampire Day. -
A very very nice beer
I have two and a half pints of Tanglefoot. Imminently I fully expect to have none at all.
As a consequence I have decided to call on all militant fundamentalist Zen fanatics to join me tomorrow in a Day of Inaction to protest about nothing at all. What do we want? Nothing. When do we want it? Now! -
Myekeleni by Brenda Fassie
Released in 2002 shortly before her untimely death, this is not just the best Brenda Fassie album I have so far managed to get my hands on, it is my favourite album full stop. She's been dubbed the African Madonna, which is a somewhat unfair label. Brenda Fassie has a far wider range of styles available to her. However it does give an indication ( Read more... ) -
expletive deleted Crapita again
So I sent off all the forms for housing and council tax benefit and heard nothing. Then I got a summons for non payment of council tax. So I phoned Capita and they said "no problem just come in and fill in a new set of forms and it will all be sorted". Which I did. The chap behind the desk tod me they would contact me about backdating but that the ( Read more... ) -
Seeing Stars
I counted seven visible from the back garden last night. I can't recall ever being able to see more than three or four previously during the three decades I've been living in London. Assuming there haven't been several new supernovas that I haven't heard about then it has to be serious progress. Sometimes things really do get better ( Read more... )