I'm back! I'm sitting on my own couch, my own computer on my lap and connected to my own broadband - I cannot tell you how amazing it feels ( Read more... )

( Con Report )

I have finally sold my house and am back in a flatshare in London. I'm going to give myself a week or two to adjust because the last few months have been hellish (seriously I don't understand how a wealthy, sophisticated, property-obsessed country like this can have such a primitive system for property sales and purchases) and then start flat- ( Read more... )

I haven’t been much in evidence over the last few months a case of just having so much to potentially post that if I did I wouldn’t have any time to sell my house and house-hunt, but I just had to pay a fleeting visit to remind anyone who doesn’t already know that the4ts’ auction in aid of Medecins sans frontieres (and in honour of David Hewlett) is ( Read more... )

Watched the first episode of Jericho last night (which I enjoyed) though I thought that the villagers' rioting was a little pat and, frankly, premature ( Read more... )

( Spoiler rich and diatribe heavy )

So I'm feeling really good today and high among the reasons is the fact that Eliade's back ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted to LondonSlashers)

Basking in the afterglow of Connotations and inspired by Moonlettuce's and Temaris' hard work, I've decided to have a slash bash at my place on either one of the above dates from about lunchtime onwards (I live outside Reading in Berkshire, an hour from Paddington by train). Let me know if you're free, which date you'd prefer and in about a week ( Read more... )

So I had plans for today. Actually, plans is probably too big a word for what I had in mind: coming to gently in a long leisurely bath whilst reading my book, followed by much needed lawn mowing, weeding and bulb planting interspersed with coffee and cake consumption with my little old lady neighbour, eating something cooked, as opposed to heated ( Read more... )

(  Waffle on manners, questions and class. )