I keep intending to write a post about how to spend less money. Every time I type it out, I think 'This makes me seem shockingly stingy and weird! And as though I sit on a crate counting the pennies I've hooked from drains, and cackling. No, I will not post it.'

But we're living in complex financial times, and danalcapone asked me to.

This is intended as ( Read more... )

Just to say I shan't be at BiCon (I'm not sure I attend with enough regularity to be expected, but I've been to the last two ( Read more... )

It's been very nice to have rats around the place again. I'd forgotten the warm hesistant weight of them, and the way they can move smoothly and artfully, but then break into the most ridiculous half-hopping to cover distances. And the questing poise when they stretch out with their noses in the air as if they're having a moment of intense wistful ( Read more... )

(Will respond to all those who asked for books shortly! Apologies for delay.)Have been wondering what to do with My Life (personally, professionally, creatively - most ways apart from sartorially). But at the same time, I'm wondering if that kind of question is something I only ask when I'm not at my best. It's not really a quest for meaning, just ( Read more... )

Recently attended an excellent workshop (wish I'd thought of it) on how my job is presented in novels. It used fictional characters to open questions of how we see our roles, how other colleagues see us ( Read more... )

My usual shopping pattern is to notice that I want something, then wait long enough that the company making it goes out of business. Top tip for zero spending, there. However, sometimes I actually need things. In that case, I wait long enough until I can find them in a skip ( Read more... )

I'm having one of my periodic clear-outs. What, I ask myself, do I want to take my from old life, into my new life? Standing in front of the Piranesi etchings holding Little Ted, I think: 'Probably not JoAnn Loulan's Lesbian SexBelow is a list of books that seemed too rarefied or tatty for my local charity shop - let me know in the screened ( Read more... )

I'll be helping to organise a bi bit of London Pride on Saturday. Details below the cut if you want to join in, but I just wanted to be wildly enthusiastic about attending ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of a London-based activity this evening relating to the BNP win, and how dismal it is? I was thinking 'vigil' or 'protest' rather than 'come round my place and kick the garden wall', but all offers welcome ( Read more... )

I am getting rid of some perfectly serviceable things which the charity shop would reject.

Would anybody like:
- minitubes GONE!
- Wild Seed by Octavia Butler. No back cover. Fantasy/historical.

Give me your address in the screened comments and I'll pop them in the post.