Dear (my member of UK Parliament ( Read more... )

Hello. It's been a while.

First, I went here:


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...and discover that I may have to go back it all up. (Thanks tyrell for the heads up). I might be back later on after some investigation...

EDIT: Okay it doesn't appear to be an OMGPANIC situation. I'd guess that LJ will still be around for the foreseeable future. However, I will still back up in the next few days (i.e. once things calm down a bit).

Wow. I think I'd nearly forgotten what winter is really like. You see, I be several thousand miles away from my normal abode and am currently in the sub-Arctic of Canada. Yesterday's high was about -25C, and today's is somewhat similar. Ouch. However, when it's this cold, it's too cold for clouds to form so it's bright and sunny! And, there's ( Read more... )

Ah, finally some time to look at LJ ( Read more... )

Proper update to follow very soon!

Now, this is interesting. If you are an LJ-er you'll have read about it already, but yeah, interesting development. It's interesting to see how may UK LJ people were moaning about The Independent in the new LJ UK community, but come on. Give it some time, it's an interesting way for the paper to try to engage with its readership (and probably try ( Read more... )

( Last weekend saw a trip to London to see the Francis Bacon exhibition at Tate Britain. )

The past few days have been blissfully uneventful. First time in ages.

I did manage to get some Christmas shopping done on Monday as planned. The shops were fairly empty and there were no hordes of people - hurrah! I did spend some money on myself in Waterstones where there was some reasonably priced fiction on offer (as joysilence has also observed!). I ( Read more... )

Right, I did say I had more to post.

The other vaguely interesting thing I did last weekend was attend a British (ice) hockey match. Now, I've not been to a hockey match in years. My father used to take me to see the Toronto Maple Leafs as a kid, and really, I think pretty much every Canadian kid knows something about hockey due to its ( Read more... )