My ivy has fallen down. Boo. :o(

It bothers me when people will only admit to enjoying certain things, things that are perceived as uncool, in an 'ironic', 'guilty pleasures' sort of way. Me, if I like something, I'll shout it from the rooftops. So today I took myself to see High School Musical 3, and then went up to Wembley to see Queen ( Read more... )

Ooh, eBay can be an insidious temptress sometimes! I've just been a little bit extravagant. Oh well, the banks clearly aren't safe, why not put one's money on one's walls instead? Just as soon as I get hold of some new picture frames, my living room will be going all Mai '68. Tee hee!

Am I the only one who thinks that most* aspects of this current economic crisis are simply brilliant? Regardless of the causes, the fact is that we're starting to see nationalisation again. I couldn't have predicted that, but I'm certainly delighted to see it. But there's still unfinished business, like British Rail, British Gas, British Telecom ( Read more... )

I'm going to be an uncle. :o)

I bought myself a new DVD player last week, because the old one had well and truly given up the ghost, a considerable while back. And, sick of the fact that those bottom-of-the-range machines reliably seem to break down after just a year or two, I decided (on the basis of a payrise) that I would hurl myself up to the opposite end of the spectrum, ( Read more... )

( A photo-story, of sorts )

Having finally returned to it at the point where I left off last Summer, I have spent most of this Summer hammering away at chapter eight of my book (out of a projected total of nine). And I have just completed it. It was by far the toughest one to write -- as I knew all along that it would be, which no doubt contributed to my procrastinating so ( Read more... )

So I've been working my way through my cassette drawers, ripping stuff to my computer before it decays entirely, and this week I've been working on some stuff that I taped off the radio, mostly Radio Cambridgeshire, in the 1980s. And what a box of treats it has proved! There are some things that I lament the absence of (where did that Pink Floyd ( Read more... )

We go to London once a month ( Read more... )