I have sold my House - I accepted an offer this evening for £5,000 less than the asking price and within a few weeks will be homeless (though rich) I've spent the last hour e-mailing estate agents trying to arrange viewings. The one I really like is half of a chapel that is in the process of being converted - There is an outbuilding with 2 rooms ( Read more... )

Radio4 has just done an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One. If you haven't read it it's one of the funniest books I've ever read (and the only one that has caused me to laugh out loud in public.) You can listen to it here for a week. (The play starts about three minutes in.)

Not having posted in an age I thought I'd better update. Christmas shopping is now complete save for a nephew where I'm buying through Ebay (I have checked postage) Yesterday I bought paper, tags etc and something I got at the first shop proceeded to trigger the alarm at every other shop I went into. At first I was embarrassed but then when I ( Read more... )

Riddle is perfectly fine though yesterday evening he had problems with the after effects of the anaethsetic - he kept on missing when he jumped. It was hilarious ( Read more... )

I've just watched the interview on Channel 4 - not a lot for us but two 'much loved' characters are going to die ( Read more... )

I had a pleasant surprise today - the window washers on my car have been playing around because the previous owner jury rigged a repair that kept on failing. A replacement bit of plastic pipe around three inches long was eight pounds and whilst I can afford eight pounds I was outraged so I went to a breakers yard. They didn't have the right bit ( Read more... )

I thought about posting this link on CoS but decided it was probably better here. Women have more in common with chimpanzees than men I will now run away and hide.

Do look at this before it vanishes - I loved the closing remark.
http://www.cosforums.com/showthread.php?t=84229
It explains it all - Ginny is in fact a reincarnation of Lord Voldemort - the eighth horcrux and Harry is going to have to kill her before dealing with him

It doesn't take much to get me excited - I dialled 999 (emergency) for the first time today. Neighbours smoke alarms went off and I could smell smoke. (At first I thought it was in my house) They left something on the hob when they went out so no harm done. Within ten minutes there were two fire engines outside. It was alarming how quickly they ( Read more... )

It's Christmas Eve here so ( Read more... )