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Bad news for Wheel of Time fans
Book 12 may be a little delayed. -
Driving
Over recent weeks I've been getting interested in the idea of actually learning to drive. As a result of my incessant pestering of boobook while she's been driving to explain how it all works, she dragged me out to the Sheffield Arena carpark on Sunday afternoon and gave me the wheel ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year + some other stuff
First of all, Happy New Year to everybody reading this ( Read more... ) -
Busy, busy, busy...
At some point there will be a long post describing my holiday in Scotland. I had planned to start writing it today, but it seems that I instead have to plan an office move. The good thing about the office move is that we have about three times as much space in the new office; the bad news is manyfold.
- The move has to be done by the beginning of ( Read more... )
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Information request
Anybody know any good van hire companies in Sheffield? I'm moving house next Thursday and require a van to shift the bigger bits of furniture.
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Random grammatical musing
The Guardian currently has a front page story titled Exam body declares war on greengrocer's apostrophe. The gist of the article is that they're considering making punctuation more important to GCSE grades.
While the meat of the article is interesting, I keep looking at the title and thinking shouldn't that be "greengrocers' apostrophe"? -
Stupid banks
Why exactly is it that only people who can drive or have been abroad are permitted bank accounts in this country? -
Putting on the years
Given that today is my birthday, I thought I'd break my long LJ silence and say hi to everyone. Hi.
My sister has bought me a new shiny knife. I have yet to test it in the way I test all my new knives, by waving it at eternatyawaits and seeing how much he cowers. My brother got me Anansi Boys, which due to him being lazy and not wrapping it before giving it to ( Read more... ) -
Give me money!!!!!
I've been meaning to post about this for ages, but my normal scatter-brainedness has made me completely forget.
boobook and I have formed a team for the 2005 ASPIRE Channel Swim. For those averse to link clicking; basically we have to between us swim 22 miles in 12 weeks (from the 12th of September to the 4th of December). That basically boils down to ( Read more... )