Wow. It's again be a bit of a stretch since I posted here. Work is consuming a lot of my time, but there were few highlights in the past couple of weeks:

+ I went to Brick Lane for the first time a few weeks ago. Work was sending me to Ipswich on a Monday, which is a bit of a bugger to get to on public transport. Instead of leaving ridiculously ( Read more... )

Nicked from neojezebelAsk me to take a picture of any aspect of my life that you're interested in - it can be anything from the house I live in to my favorite shoes. Leave your choice here as a comment, and I will reciprocate by taking the pictures and posting them as an LJ entry. That way you get to know a little bit about my life, if you're remotely ( Read more... )

From the Guardian's live blog on the G20 Protests:

One man wandering past as I was coming in, was in full City pinstripe and told a policeman standing outside that he had decided to 'dress as offensively as possible'.

This in turn provoked a mental image of this:


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Quoteth Art Brut's singer Eddie Argos:

"I watch TV on the internet. I have no idea what’s going on in Pop Idol and, since TOTP finished, I have no idea what’s in the charts. I like Pop Music. I understand the point of Girls Aloud; it’s fun to listen to, to get drunk to, to dance to. What I don’t understand is why people like The Kaiser Chiefs, ( Read more... )

Wow. I can't believe it's been over a month since I updated here properly. It's been a combination of general busy-ness, avoiding spending *too* much time online, and a general can't-be-arsed/malaise feeling I've had as of late. This also means I've not been keeping up with other people's posts either. I will have a proper catch up over the next ( Read more... )

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I must reacquaint myself with the nuances of the French Revolution

Where is the new political movement to replace the old dinosaurs? David Cameron is not the solution.

More soon.

I'm amazed at by the snow. I don't think I've ever seen as much the entire time I've been in the UK. Thankfully, tonight's blizzard forecast has turned into really heavy rain. Annoyingly, the rain/snow means that there's an incessant dripdripdrip on the loose drain pipe outside the door to the garden which is driving me nuts. I have tried looking ( Read more... )

2009 is shaping up to be a year of travel.

Not only am I due to go on another round robin of the country for work, it's transpired that I'll be doing two trips abroad this year. In May/June I'm heading back to Canada. My Dad is retiring so I'm going over to surprise him (i.e. just turn up at the party). This jaunt will begin with a week in Toronto ( Read more... )

No reply from my MP yet, but thankfully the Government backed down.

I'm also pleased to see how quickly people mobilised and that I wasn't alone in writing to my MPNow, I guess we'll just have to be vigilant. I'm sure they'll try again - especially as they made the original announcement about the Order the same day as they announced the plans for ( Read more... )