Well yet again I tailed off updating here, despite promising myself I would update more ( Read more... )

So I get an RSS feed from BBC News, and one after the other I see these two stories in the feed:-

Boys 'stamped on deer for laughs'
Three youths killed a two-day-old fawn in a country park in Dorset by stamping on it "for a laugh", a court hears.

and

Boy admits bleach attack on womanA 16-year-old boy admits pouring bleach over a woman after she ( Read more... )

Hmmm, can upgrade my phone on Monday, and I know that I want a Smartphone of some kind - I just can't decide which one ( Read more... )

Made it to the weekend! Hurrah ( Read more... )

I kinda don't mind doing my Wednesday early shift. I have to start work at 6am, but I get to finish at 2pm (well, in theory.... although in practise, they never remember I finish early on Weds, so keep contacting me throughout the afternoon ( Read more... )

Am struggling to resist the temptation to buy an iPod Touch...... See I kinda like the iPhone and those of it's ilk - would be nice to be able to access t'internet on the move, without having to lug a laptop/netbook type thing around, but most of these large screen internet capable phones require either using O2 (iPhone), or having a high monthly ( Read more... )

On a whim I stopped by the local gym (LA Fitness place) to get info about what classes they run and membership prices, and walked out with an appointment to be shown around the facilities on Saturday..... how posh ( Read more... )

I can't remember if it was an American or Australian friend who told me that where they worked, they had a set number of "Duvet Days" allocated, where you could just ring up work and say you're staying in bed today - or something like that ( Read more... )

Okay so there I was, end of last week, suffering from post holiday blues with probably a good dollop of PMS hormones on the side, feeling slightly wretched, stressed and generally sorry for myself ( Read more... )

So for quite a while now, the DVLA has offered the service of being able to buy car tax online. Made possible by the new, electronically recorded MOT certificate, and obviously some link to insurance companies to be able to verify you have insurance. I've used this service for the past couple of years, without giving it much of a second thought ( Read more... )