Long silence, but such is the life of a lecturer with too many extracurricular activities. I missed all of October, it seems, how remiss of me ( Read more... )

See, this is the reason that I don't buy kebabs from kebab vans. You know the ones - they're the ones where the main commodity is botulism. I don't think I have anything left inside of me.

The girls have gone home and Valentine is working. Traitors. I need water. Send help.

I thought I was fairly fit, and then Valentine bought me a boat. Christ wept, I've got aches in places I didn't even know I had muscles. Surely it's not normal to ache in your midriff after a spot of rowing? Next time I'm giving him the oars and saving myself a hernia ( Read more... )

Just watching a recording of Grand Designs - a woman smeared cow shit and yoghurt over a concrete tower with the intent that it'd grow lichen in time. Artists, of course. Who'd live in a shit smeared tower? Nevertheless, watching this show gives me itchy feet in the worst way - I miss my house in France ( Read more... )

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Melting. Banal to moan about the weather but honestly, besides sitting by the river with a G&T and going for drives with the air conditioning on full pelt, there's nothing to be done but piss, moan and wait for things to get cooler. I can't recall a summer being as hot as this one has been for quite some time, must be this global warming thing that ( Read more... )

Much to my dismay, I must announce that I have that irritating Get Lucky song stuck in my head. This terrible state of affairs is entirely thanks to Danny, who set it as my ring tone when he visited on Tuesday. I'd ask Valentine to take it off for me but I don't want to admit that I've been thoroughly baffled by a bloody smartphone (Valentine, if ( Read more... )

I don't often watch television, but must confess myself taken with the series Hannibal. Quite apart from the arresting set design and hypnotic performances from Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelson, it also makes me want to cook every time I watch an episode.


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Still at the mercy of those rabbits. I've given up trying to plant anything until they're taken care of - no bloody point since it will all be eaten. Given that I'm not allowed to do harm to them on threat of extreme pouting, I've eaten rabbit stew and rabbit pie and rabbit pate at every opportunity in some sort of vengeance-by-proxy. Delicious ( Read more... )