Well, I have precisely 3 hours left of being in my 20s. At midnight tonight (or 4.15am, depending on how you count these things), I will move into my 30s.

I should probably catalogue the things I have and haven't achieved this decade, but for now I'll just say that I've got too many cards to write, and last posting is on Tuesday.

Oh dear, I appear to have discovered Minecraft. 'Tis amazing.

I was round at Suzi & Alex's flat yesterday (at the other end of my street), where we had an Star Wars original trilogy marathon ( Read more... )

This might have been a Facebook thing, but FB seem determined to drive away their users right now ( Read more... )

We had a lot of fun round at Kiki's yesterday for a barbecue. Jules wasn't feeling too well at the start (not alcohol related), but seemed to have recovered by the evening. Despite bad weather warnings, and my frequent attempts to jinx it, it turned out fine after all. We drank Pimms, were chased by wasps, I ate a rather dubiously cooked hamburger ( Read more... )

Just a quick update to note that I've passed my thesis update, so they clearly don't think I'm doing too badly to fail ( Read more... )

Roy Skelton, who did the voice of the Daleks (and other monsters), and also played George and Zippy in Rainbow has died aged 79 ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that not all of you are on Facebook, where I made the invitation, so hopefully the rest of you are here on LJ/DW ( Read more... )

Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who, has died aged only 63.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13137674She first starred alongside Jon Pertwee (the 3rd Doctor), and later alongside Tom Baker (the 4th Doctor), and I think that period was probably some of the best Doctor Who of all time, with such iconic episodes as ( Read more... )

After moving into my new flat1, I decided that I'd rather sign up with an energy provider other than the default (let's call the default EP1, and the new one EP2). This doesn't happen instantly, and I was still billed by the EP1 until the EP2 took over ( Read more... )