I'm sick of the dentist performing money extractions on my wallet. At least I have now finished with the dentist for 2008. No more dentist till 2009 ( Read more... )

In the holidays my mother-in-law came to stay and we visited my parents and had christmas dinner and mince pies and cake and then we drove home. On Boxing day we went to the park and it rained. My sister and niece also came to stay and it was good and I enjoyed it. We went to the park and we played on the swings and then we played on the slide and ( Read more... )

...or should that be 'Inarticulate!' because I post this really with my tongue in my cheek, except for the part about the Single Entendres. I'm deadly serious about the Single Entendres ( Read more... )

I lent my 2 for the price of 1 edition of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency/Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams to someone, and I don't remember who or where it went. This is one of those obligatory appeals if anyone remembers or was the person who I loaned it to… could you let me know, so I know where it is? Thank you!

More life lessons: It's normal to feel ambivalent about everything and just because I'm ambivalent doesn't mean there's something wrong with me that requires a large amount of self-improvement ( Read more... )

My turn to pick up the stick from off-black1.You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be ( Read more... )

I went back to improv again last night. It was a lot better than the first time I went back*. We may or may not be doing a show in the Fringe festival last year, which I may or may not be involved in. I suspect not, because I don't know if I have the mental energy to be creative at the moment. We have some cool ideas for doing long-form improv ( ( Read more... )

Er…no, sorry, I didn't.

Well, we've met one lot of neighbours so far - they gave us home-made marmalade and we had a long discussion about our respective cats. Still haven't met the other lot of neighbours - that's one of the things I'm planning to do this weekend, along with going swimming for the first time since the Thorndon pool closed its doors back in April ( Read more... )

Meanwhile, does anyone have any tips on how you're supposed to meet your neighbours? I'm not sure that asking to borrow a cup of sugar isn't weird in this day and age....

:-F