No - not me doing it - I can't make it across the road without wanting a sit-down - but  a work colleague of mine  needs sponsorship urgently ( Read more... )

I'm online as of today - just sorted through 841 emails that had been accruing.
There is no way that I'll ever catch up with my f/list, so if there's something that I ought to know, please tell me in comments or send me a link. 
Now to start getting back to "normal" again!

Right, I now have a phone line and it works.  I still have no internet, until at least May 21st (dammit!!) and am once again borrowing Jan's computer to do stuff this afternoon ( Read more... )

Just borrowing a bit of internet access from my pal Jan to say that BT have been a bunch of incompetent f*ckwits and have managed to leave me without a landline until May 16th and without broadband until late the following week.  And that's if they get it right this time.  They got my account mixed up with the woman I bought the flat from , who was ( Read more... )

This move is either going to be the best thing I've done in ages, or one of the worst mistakes of my life.

Which door has the tiger behind it, and which one conceals Johnny Depp?

Tonight I feel so safe in my old flat that I'm soooo tempted to call the whole thing off and put the new flat back on the market tomorrow.  (Cue enraged mob of pals, with ( Read more... )

I should be ferreting madly in drawers and chucking out loads of useless crap.
I should be stripping the spare bed and trying to haul my case onto it to pack for The Move.
I should be trying to get limescale off my dish-drainer.
I should be shifting odds and ends from where they are to where they need to be.
I should be putting together the "survival ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7367385.stm

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Stolen from just about everywhere/everyone.

Where is your mobile phone? Desk
Your significant other? Dead
Your hair? Long
Your mother? Dead
Your father? Dead
Your favourite thing? Cat
Your dream last night? None
Your favourite drink? Coffee
Your dream/goal? Retirement
The room you're in? Cluttered
Your ex? Dead
Your fear? Loneliness
Where do you ( Read more... )

Seated one day at the organ computer, thinking in a vague fashion about the need to stagger off to my pit, it having gone past 1am without my noticing , the merry banter of the local yoofs outside the shops below my flat turns into crash, bang, wallop, tinkle-crash, and an alarm going off.
So, that's how I end up sitting here posting at nearly 2am ( Read more... )