I find the current media frenzy over expenses and the Commons pretty alarming, not to mention lacking in much real interest in solutions ( Read more... )

GCSE exam results - congrats if you got what you wanted, hugs if you did not. At least the stress is over ( Read more... )

I was replying to a comment from Neilc in my journal, when a memory I had carefully repressed forced itself back into my reluctant awareness. I had posted about a "checking up on a sick Geezer Nick" trip, and had listened to the long defunct US band for each and every minute of a 5/6-hour round trip ( Read more... )

Dammit, I knew I was born out of my own time, and now I read, in the frequently fascinating journal of Cavalorn, of the wondrous woman that I should have married - the blessed Favell Lee Mortimer, a true lover of the cross and no mistake :-)
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Back after a rather rapid overnight trip.

Oh, the sheer joy of a car that does not break down, and has decent air-conditioning. Proper stereo is an added bonus. 6 hours of Blackfoot. Yes, he is OK. :-)

One of my oldest mates had a heart scare this week. No idea what sort, since the NHS notion of "care" includes losing the intital ECG. There is visible damage, so it seems...

He is now probably going to end up moving back in here when he is discharged. Any arrangements I have made now rather revolve around that notion.

Drivel follows....
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A few weeks ago I noticed a tiny, rather muscular little spider wandering around my PC monitor. He is very distinctively marked, and not a type I have ever seen before. For the next few days he could be seen be seen steaming around my PC area, looking generally industrious, fit, and giving out the encouragingly positive aura that a properly brought ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4146272.stm

One of the very few politicians I have ever wanted to hug. So real, honest. I hope she goes well.

Wide open spaces of green, agreeable trees, even a few Yews, Druids attached, a huge antlered man wandering amongst the forests, Gaia everywhere. Packs of merry dwarves burning a rather awkward, outmoded building, revealing strangely familiar stolen outlines below. The skulls are ready, watching expectantly from the sidelines. Henry, antlers ( Read more... )