Apologies for those who've already seen it on Facebook, but I have to offer up a quote on love for my brother's wedding (yeah, I know!).

I can't find my usual quote - so do any of you have anything that isn't too nauseating or twee?

I've been working on two bids for the last month: mine and someone else's. And for most of the time, I've done theirs during the working day, and then come home and done mine of an evening and at the weekend. This last week, they've both had deadlines, and so I've been here at midnight, then back on the train at seven in the morning to get started ( Read more... )

Police were this afternoon pursuing a suspected burglar by helicopter ( Read more... )

From our local paper:

A furious father threatened to attack his girlfriend's mother with a baseball bat.

Lee Martin, 26 , flipped after an anonymous tip-off to Social Services that his daughter was living in a "violent" house. Not really much you can say, is there ( Read more... )

http://confessions.grouphug.us/

This one from page 2 made me smile - albeit sadly:
My wife has just left me, she packed up her stuff and moved out. I didn’t get in the way or cause any hassle for her as she did so. The one thing I did do, however, was coat her vibrator in Tabasco hot- ( Read more... )

Courtesy of the BBC

People in Azerbaijan who voted for a song by neighbouring Armenia in May's Eurovision Song Contest have been questioned by the authorities ( Read more... )

Right, off up to London again, I go ( Read more... )

My cake making fetish continues unabated. Today I made marble cake when I got home from work. (Un)fortunately, my potatoes fell to pieces when I was making dinner, so I had cake instead. Not at the same time, obviously.

In a completely irrelevant newsflash that is probably only of interest to UK oldies, Renato of naff 80s one-hit wonders, has died ( Read more... )

I'm still around; I just can't think of anything to write. Or by the time I come to sit down at my machine, it's slipped my mind.

But since I'm waiting for my cake to cook (who decides to make a cake at half past eight in the evening), I thought I'd keep myself occupied by posting an entry.

This lemon drizzle cake is much recommended, although ( Read more... )

Ha ha ha.

Some nutjob banging on about swine flu online has started talking about biblical epidemics - petulance, plague and flood.

Only trouble is, that should be pestilence - or are you going to be struck dead by a fit of sulks?