It's a strange thing these days, the idea of 'need'. People who shop in places like Primark (i'm guilty of it, but not for some time now) do so because it's cheap. And they 'need' cheap clothes. And the slave labour that is employed (regardless of what the company says to the contrary, i refuse to believe they can make profit at such prices without ( Read more... )

As many of you know, i try to maintain an ethical approach to life - i don't shop in supermarkets, my list of boycotts on food products and companies with known dirty dealings grows bigger by the day. I also refuse to earn money for people who don't need it - hence why i work managing a charity shop. Now, one would make a natural connection with ( Read more... )

I'm in a warehouse in Moulsecoombe full of dogs and people with dreadlocks. There are bits of wood and art and white vans all over the place. It's like having an out of body experience. I have no idea what I'm doing here except that someone I know said it was great and I should come! I feel like the stiff bourgeoisie come to try and hang out with ( Read more... )

As part of my ongoing battle with the trials of life, I have a half-formed hare-brained plan to go mobile phone-less for a length of time - say a month, for starters ( Read more... )

First of all I'd like to apologise for the imminent nautical metaphors. They are terribly twee but I've been reading Conrad and it seems to work well given the way I'm feeling about things ( Read more... )

I have loads to post about. But right now I simply CBA. To do anything, in fact. The world will have to wait for my next soupcon of dry wit and wisdom. Hah.

I've just had a really random memory. When I was about 7 or 8 I had one of those brilliant old Atari ST computer consoles, with such gems as Chuckie Egg, Q*Bert, Xenon and Chrono Quest on floppy disk. IT wasn't particularly stable, though, and every now and then it would blue screen (although I didn't know what this was at the time, obviously - and ( Read more... )

I want new piercings and tattoos... It's been too long since I was irreversibly mutliated by something pointy ( Read more... )

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/DoYourRealJob/

This is entertaining. Even more entertaining is the list of petitions - these people are insane! Although it's a nice idea that any member of the public can address an appeal direct to the Prime Minister, the effectiveness of this is cut drastically when there are 6000+ running, most of which ( Read more... )

My option for the future, as follows:

• Stay at the BHF
• Stay at the BHF and do some college
• Go part time at the BHF and do some college
• Leave the BHF for a new job
• Leave BHF and do some college