I was lying in bed, setting the alarm for the next day and having one last game of zuma on my phone before bed when i heard shouting outside, i tried to ignore it. Then i heard a thudding sound so i got up to have a look and there was a man standing next to the fence outside my house, holding something that makes a thudding sound when struck ( Read more... )

I have just learned that selected editions of Bob Dylan's radio show are going to be broadcast on radio 2 over christmas, with the show becoming a regular occurence on radio 6 in the new year, and i thought that some of you may be interested in this.

On Thursday i awoke around half two and went into town with Kirsty, John and Lauren to check with Argos in Stirling to see if they would have wiis on the shelf on Friday, the day before when we'd been in Glasgow the argos there said that it had fewer pre-orders than it expected and should have them, but the Stirling branch said in all probability ( Read more... )

as Kirsty mentioned in her LJ post a few of us went through to Glasgow today, we wandered about the German market and Kirsty bought a few things, but i didn't see anything that particularly inspired me, i think trying to decide what to get someone as a christmas present is one of the most difficult things to do at the best of times, but trying to ( Read more... )

After realising that the "three ducks" info that John Harrower gave me rather than a website or phone number was actually enough to garner further information with a quick google search, i found that the hotel i'd be waiting for information for was fully booked at New Year weekend. So after some goading from Kirsty about the fact its taken so long ( Read more... )

I seem to have been having trouble sleeping over the past few days, on wednesday night/thursday morning i woke up at 3am and couldn't get back to sleep, this morning and yesterday morning i woke up at 7am despite going to bed around 10 o'clock on thursday night and 3 o'clock last night. I'm not sure why it is i can't seem to sleep for as long as i ( Read more... )

I am currently unable to sleep, so i thought i'd write an update.

Today was my mother's graduation from Stirling, so me and Kirsty went to that, followed by many cakes and "goblets of sparkling wine" in the Pathfoot Dining Hall (my apologies to custodianiseed for the inconvience ( Read more... )

I've had trouble sleeping over the last two days due to the people below us converting the formerly bankrupt Indian restaurant that was there, into a thriving successful Indian restaurant; a process that apparently requires a lot of banging, directly underneath our bedroom ( Read more... )

i was meaning to make my next update a detailed account of Kirsty and I's time in Largs ... but Kirsty is currently eating vegetarian "whubawb and cuthtawd thweetth" which give her a lisp i find highly amusing ( Read more... )

Reply and I'll give you a letter and you have to find five songs that start with that letter and post them to your journal.

radiolibertines gave me a P, so:

1. Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore & Thin Lizzy

2. Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Nina Simone

3. Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan

4. Pretty Flamingo - Manfred Mann

5. The Priest They Called ( Read more... )