Spotted on a lamppost (and yes, i took a camera out...)

When did this stop being the council's slogan?!


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I'm alive. Things plod on as ever ( Read more... )

"We are calling for the forced demerger of large banking and finance groups. Retail banking should be split from both corporate finance (merchant banking) and from securities dealing. The demerged units should then be split into smaller banks. Mega banks make mega mistakes that affect us all. Instead of institutions that are ‘too big to fail’, we ( Read more... )

Right, so I now live in Edinburgh. Hopefully this will be the last move for a while, and it will last longer than those (less than) six months back in Leicester! I suppose, at least, the map is getting a bit more interesting ( Read more... )

Right, I've had more than enough of the print industry. Another job to put behind me. Another embarrassingly short spell on my CV. No-one seems to notice though, frankly.

I'm using up my final week's holiday allowance this week, then I'll have two weeks left - finishing in time for Christmas. Then a move to Edinburgh. Just to keep things

I almost tripped over a 'Leicester Heritage Trail' bronze plaque in the pavement this morning, so I stopped to take a look around. On one side of me was Pizza Express, on the other, the huge ugly 60s tower block that is Leicester City Council. Presumably you need the guide book ( Read more... )

So, having this afternoon completed an exam in the rather grand Great Hall of the University of Birmingham I am now... wait for it... one third of the way through my Masters. The words 'Part Time' have never been truer. That said, I am now starting to think about what will happen afterwards - for the time will arrive, perhaps sooner than I expected ( Read more... )

Leicester. I now live there. If you do too, please get in touch. I need to re-establish a drinking, gigging, middle-class tea-partying network of some description ( Read more... )

I am addicted to the Guardian's Comment is Free website. I accept I may be a bit late jumping on the bandwagon here. I've spent most of this week reading the bluddy thing instead of doing work... Aah work! I've received my final paycheque (folded neatly in the envelope with a p45, slightly terrifyingly) and this time next week I will have finished ( Read more... )

Well kids, gosh.

Back in July 2004 (surely the halcyon days of livejournaling), I wrote "The ability to make firm decisions and stick to them seems to be something that I quite severely lack though, and let's be honest about this - It's making my life a whole lot more interesting". Its a quote which means a lot to me, because that summer of 2004 ( Read more... )