Anyone still around?

The exam is passed (82.6%) and the tax return is done (the inland revenue owe me £7) and the world feels a little less stressful.

I'm feeling somewhat under pressure at the moment, I didn't realise quite how much, but looking at things I'm keeping a good deal of plates spinning ( Read more... )

Christmas
This year I visited family in Germany for Christmas, it was wonderful, I saw many relatives I'd not seen in a long time and was overcome by a wave of nostalgia from Christmases past (it's been about 10 years since I last went to Germany for Christmas). For a week, I managed to leave all my cares in the world behind.

New YearsParty at ( Read more... )

Early Day Motion Number 666, DISESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

That this House calls for the disestablishment of the Church of England.

A favourite argument I have with dogsolitude-v2 is on the subject of civil liberties, CCTV and ID cards. So, I think I ought to set out my stall.

I'm often on the recieving end of this quote.

"Those who would sacrifice a essential liberty to gain some temporary security deserve none of either" - Benjamin Franklin (Words might be slightly wrong)It's worth ( Read more... )

At work, nearly all of the contractors were called into a room and it was explained that there was no funding available for any new projects and hence our services would no longer be needed. 12 of the 15 contractors in their employ got their notice and I was one of them. I'm a little disappointed, but can't exactly complain since I did quite well ( Read more... )

Yesterday, in what was not entirely unexpected set of circumstances. The Town Close Labour party decided on me as their candidate for the 2008 City council elections. I'd have to say that I'm not all that confident of a win, the Greens had a pretty big majority last year with the LibDems in second place ( Read more... )

Today was spent mostly hungover, many thanks to dogsolitude-v2 for supplying the wine and excellent entertainment. Particularly the wine soaked political debate. I was going to be delivering Labour party leaflets today, but with there being no election, things got called off. This meant the day was mostly spent lazing around with a little planning for my ( Read more... )

Job
Fantastic, ok people, reasonably interesting work, with the bonus that I'm making loads of money.

Love Life
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Social Life
lady_ellinor's party on Saturday was very good, this coming Saturday's tavern shenanigans promises not to disappoint.

Random Stuff
My political blog was ranked 85th in a top 100 of the UK's left leaning political blogs.

Greatest ( Read more... )