I.e. the last day of my tenancy is 22nd January 2014. Time to find a new place I guess; happy Christmas to me!

I still watch the Daily Show, well, daily, albeit about 16 hours after those of you in the US watching it live (acquired by...nefarious means since it doesn't show on TV over here any more than Americans get Have I Got News For You). I have to say I've been enjoying it this week - I love when Jon Stewart gets legitimately pissed off, drops some of ( Read more... )

My letting agent just called; my landlady wants to sell the house I'm living in so they wanted permission to have people come in for viewings. Guess I'm going to have to find somewhere else to live? I've got at least two months' notice and I'm not convinced she's going to find a buyer (tiny house, no garden, no parking), but still, I may have to ( Read more... )

In a nod to the many years I spent in the US, I had another go at making corndogs just as I did last year, plus fried chicken and coleslaw. Corndogs turned out much better this time around; not quite State Fair but in the ballpark (pun not intended). I wish I could teleport some to minnesattva :) Hope you're all having fun over there.

I've been wondering why Fang seemed off his food all week. Turns out I'd accidentally gotten him kitten gooshyfood and he's been throwing a 'rawr I am a Big Cat and not a child stop treating me like one!' teenage tantrum over it. ;)

There's a type of rain peculiar to the UK whereby you just know it's going to last all day. It's desultory but persistent; you hear it drumming on the roof and know that there's no escape, it's going to be there until you fall asleep, you have no chance to survive make your time.

Oddly, I've missed it.

And reading entries from a decade ago is a very odd feeling ;p

More or less anyway. Nice warm days, no need for a coat, chirping birds in the trees.

( Random life update )

The touchscreen on my T-Mobile G2 is dying (it doesn't work unless I push the keyboard into just the right position), so I've finally knuckled down and bought a new phone (a Galaxy Note II). It's weird how I've gotten attached to the G2 given I used to completely hate phones, and in a way it's one of the last links to my life in America. I'm going ( Read more... )

Today is Thankstaking, or antiThanksgiving, or something; the anniversary of my long voyage from the New Country back to the wild, unexplored shores of Britain ( Read more... )