OK. That was a slightly complicated day. I want to buy something from EBay it is only a few quid. I currently don't have access to a debit or credit card as I use a credit union for banking (I'm living the simple life mostly).
Given that I haven't got around to going into the Co-op bank and setting up an ethical standard account and that I'm ( Read more... )

When raking up meadow which mostly consists of knapweed that was base cut by a scythe cutter, you'll have a lot of bees that are trapped and pissed off. A few of us got stung and I picked up.. as it turns out 17 stings (I thought it was three). *now* I'm reacting to them. Hives, headache and pulse up around 120 ( Read more... )

Got drenched repeatedly on Friday and Saturday. I *still* went out with a suit on for the Critical Mass ride ( Read more... )

Next door to me there is a baby. I haven't seen it, only heard its almost constant crying. It is a really distressed cry. I'm pretty sure it is poor parenting skills and not actual cruelty. Sometimes it sounds like colic, but is through the day as well as the night. It tears at me. The poor thing must be crying 12-14 hours a day.

So, what? Ask them ( Read more... )

OK I got my room straight... mostly ( Read more... )

I'm now the Diversity rep for Stonham housing Leicester. This may involve some training, but mainly means I get to go to diversity meetings. Of course I'm the person they asked... a white middle class straight Christian. The fact that I have gay, straight, bi, poly, trans, christian, jewish, muslim, pagan, humanist, black, asian friends in various ( Read more... )

Thursday was planned to be my 'quiet day'. I am involved with a charity called Groundwork and we have a huge project on at the moment which is to change the management of a big chunk of a cemetery near the city centre to promote the regrowth of meadow flowers. To get the right mix, you don't cut the meadowland until everything has had a chance to ( Read more... )

I can't win council housing requests currently because they've done something to my score. In spite of their own rules dictating that I have pretty much as many points as you can get ( Read more... )

The conservation site I was at today is called The Orchards.  There were a lot of damsons, quite a few blackberries, some redcurrants and raspberries ripe around the site. I took an ice-cream tub with me and filled it up with a mix of 'almost' ripe fruit. It is stupidly early in the season and I was picking while scything so didn't have a lot of ( Read more... )

Aahh. Happy, slightly achy feeling today. I managed to do about 30 miles on the bike while simply shopping. R's 8th Birthday is coming up and Jo's suggestion for her birthday present is a memory box.

I did the shop trawling and came up blank. That's every crafty type shop, charity shop, second hand furniture store in Leicester and the edges of town ( Read more... )