Someone this week told me they had a rule about anything that gets to take up space in their house: it must be beautiful or useful, and that means now. In all my years, I've not heard anything as simple as that. There's the "well, I might need it at some point so it goes on the top shelf" rule, or the "if you haven't worn it in a year it goes" rule ( Read more... )

1. "Why are you complaining about illegal surveillance if you've got nothing to hide ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to sort out my study for months. Seriously, months and months. I decided to do it today because there was an accident on the motorway so I couldn't go to the garden centre and I didn't want to waste the keenness to do something. Anyhoo...

There are two large sets of shelves in my study, plus one cupboard, plus a couple of tall sets ( Read more... )

I posted a couple of weeks ago that I'd taken some videos at a gig I'd been to, and that I'd since created my own YouTube account at the urging of dear Ankh (who basically bugged me a lot) to post said videos. So far, so simple. So then ( Read more... )

Trigger warning: discussion of sexual abuse.

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Among the misery around the world, the BBC website today has an article with the following title:

Bond's sexual history: How does 007's sex life compare with a normal man's?

Er, well. I've seen the headline on and off as I've checked the site today (looking for news of the missing toddler - hideous situation). And I don't get it. I mean, I can only ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about changing cars for a while. When I saw a while, I mean a couple of years. I want something that's more comfortable for my back. All that means, really, is something that's high up off the road so it's a question of moving sideways to sit in the seat instead of down, plus is an automatic. Also, it needs to be petrol not ( Read more... )

This might seem odd, but I want to get this right. Here in the repubic of olyparalympic-land we have our own doctors (GPs). When we need to get tested for pretty much anything beyond blood tests, we have to make an appointment with a hospital and get it done there. So if I needed an xray I'd have to get it done at a hospital. Is that the same for ( Read more... )

So, I've been watching Fringe S2. Several episodes ago everyone discovered Charlie had been killed. This episode I'm watching, people seem to be confused by the girl who died and came back to life who has nuclear launch codes and is speaking Russian, but they're not confused by the dead guy wandering about the office?

Seriously, wtf?

Yet another religious leader being a bigot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17249099  A Catholic cardinal saying that gay marriage would be a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right". Seriously, dude? Marriage *isn't* a universally accepted human right, and that's the friggin' problem!

These people all seem interchangeable - ( Read more... )