I used to joke sometimes that my family was "Polish twice a year", in the same way you get twice a year Catholics (people who turn up for mass at Christmas and Easter and that's it ( Read more... )

I just entered a contest over at http://maisieeatsbento.blogspot.com/Read more... )

Sat night, to celebrate earth hour, loupblanc and I played Trivia Pursuit by candlelight. We should do board games more often, it was a lot of fun :-)

This is as good a place as any to jot what we've got down ;-)
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Well, my "last" day at work was on Friday. I was in a bit of denial about it all up until the end, when it kinda hit me like a brick wall! Yeah, the "everyone going out for lunch" the fact that I'd been slowly trying to get my work cleared and thinking about tidying my desk for the guy who'll be stepping into some of what I do* and the " ( Read more... )

We burried one of our gerbils today, Miss Hermione. She was 2 years 8 months old*. Her littermate Ginnie seems ok with the change (so far ( Read more... )

This past weekend was the Feast of the Tower Hall Inn event ( Read more... )

I was v productive, and as a result I:
-finished and sent in my documentation for the persona contest (more later, as i've only an hour to shower, eat lunch, and generally get ready to go to the knitting thing I said I'd go to...
-got to hang out with silvermoonsnake at her new(ish) place in Greenock ( Read more... )

I don't think I've written ANY elected official in the past without prompting (I've taken part in a couple of organized letter-writing campagns, and there was that Civics & Econ lesson where we had to write someone...), but this article (Ryanir might charge for on-board loos) really disturbed me ( Read more... )

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:

How do your reading habits stack up? [bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish].

( I do hope that ones we had to read for school count! )