Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat MP, just interviewed on BBC, you can fuck right off you wanker - these riots are not the responsibility of the mothers who are not going out and finding thier kids and bringing them home. Have you no clue?

My son is in Orpington tonight playing Dungeons and Dragons, and I will not be making him to come home, as it ( Read more... )

As I sit here glued to the internet and telivision, I am struck by two things. All the *commentary* starts with an analysis of racism in London - particularly the overt racist policies of the police, and used that racism as an explanation of why these riots are happening ( Read more... )

It’s easy ... have a nose job! (For the coke anyway)

( are you really really bored? if so, click here for the Epic Story Of the day Surgery )

Some direct debits that definatly did not go out of my account this month. They are ( Read more... )

and could gleefully impose my version of keynsian economics on everyone, I would instantly commision work on the new 'freedom line'.

This would start at either the victoria line link at the O2 arena in north greenwich, or the DLR station in Lewisham. From there it would head out to Bexleyheath, where it would split. One branch would proceed out to ( Read more... )

Today was another lovely day. I spent one gloriously sunny afternoon with 2 friends and thier 2 doggies in a beer garden in Greenwich, and hanging otu in the park, where the dogs went for a swim in the pond.
Now I'm properly home, however, its starting to hit. I'm due in the hospital tomorrow morning for surgery. Nine and a half hours from now, to ( Read more... )

if I got homesick for Dublin, or missed anything about it, and I answered yes, I still get quite homesick, and miss some things about home.

later on, a different friend asked, if I could move back home, would I? Good grief no! I replied - I think I even shuddered.

We are complex strange creatures, we humans.

Yesterday was an 'I love London' day ( Read more... )

So, after exaxtly one month of trying, and one month to the day of having my new address, I'm finally registered with my new GP
-actually, it was earlier this week, but I'm only journaling it now because I'm totally bored and can't sleep. Also, as moany as it makes my current lj seem, i'm finding it helpful to keep the record, because it keeps the ( Read more... )

Well, I don’t yet *technically* live by myself, but in the four weeks since I’ve moved Conor has stayed here for 4 nights. In a way that’s a good transition. He’s still in shouting distance, while I get to actually develop a real sense of what it’s like to live by myself. The transition when he heads off to uni may have been a bit harsher if he ( Read more... )

... the doctor took one look at the child from accross the room, suggested what the matter was, ran some x-rays that morning to confirm, and by afternoon the woman had the bad news she had been dreading. The child was profoundly disabled with a condition that would only get worse, and lead to her spending most of her life in a wheelchair ( Read more... )