So here is the thing. At work last week I had a situation where a woman was pretty rude to me. Not overly so, really, and I could understand why she was upset - she had a right to be, but I was the wrong person to take it out on. We all do that sometimes though. And I deal with ruder people and worse situations quite often. I dealt with her and she ( Read more... )

I want to put a load of photos online, to share them with family ( Read more... )

My bank holiday has been fairly low-key, because G's mum is staying, and I am still not very good at walking, so it has featured a lot of sitting in parks/ staying in and catching up on things while G and his mum tramped round open houses ( Read more... )

I am pretty sure that my foot pain was caused by the slightly idiotic combination of wearing (low, but still) heels pretty much all day on saturday, and then going running on sunday ( Read more... )

Bah. I am at home because my foot hurts, which feels like a stupid reason not to be at work ( Read more... )

does anyone have any size 6 or size 9 rollerblades or inline skates I can borrow?

I've lived in this flat seven months, and on a good day it still makes my heart leap when I turn the corner at the top of the road and see the sea right there, at the bottom of the street. And as much as I enjoyed my last batch of housesharing (or two-thirds of it, at any rate), I still love coming home to find just Gareth, or an empty flat and ( Read more... )

Work have brought in a ridiculously over the top new data security system which means, among other things, that I can't get onto lj and the like from my desk. Seeing as it's not unusual for me to leave the flat before 7am and not get back to it until after 9pm, I'm not using the internet much at home either ( Read more... )

Between the ages of about 12 and 14 I used to go to Girl Guides every week. I loved it. Partly because I was a geek, and partly because essentially all we did was go camping. We'd plan camping trips, come back from them, and start planning another one. I had some good friends there as well ( Read more... )

I really really want to see the Watchmen movie NOW. And I can't even go see it tonight. Boo.

If you are similarly impatient, calm yourself with the excellent Watchmen as an 80s Saturday morning kids TV show