Well this is excellent. I have all my presents bought, but three (and I know what I'm getting for those), and everything else wrapped up, wirh three lots to post tomorrow. But basically, I'm sorted. This time last week it seemed most unlikely I ever would be! I also have given up on finding a tree small enough to not require throwing out an ( Read more... )

I think the most disturbing thing about the killings in Ipswich - more and more obviously the work of a serial killer - is the stories of the girls who have been murdered. All five had been working as prostitutes, but look at them, look at their profiles. They could be anyone, any young woman. So one of them, according to her family, went 'bad' ( Read more... )

Finally got to see The Prestige this evening, after roast dinner no.2 of the weekend (lamb, from mum, with dad, a & j). SUCH a good one. My love affair with the career of Chris Nolan continues. It was especially exciting as its so long since I'd seen the trailer that I'd forgotten half the people who were in it (somehow I kept fixating on Xtian ( Read more... )

Incase anyone hadn't noticed, I upgraded to a paid account so i can once more madly post photos at will. Here's one of a sunset not unlike the one about to happen, a couple of weeks ago ...

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Ag... Silver

You scored 47 Mass, 42 Electronegativity, 74 Metal, and 0 Radioactivity!
Congratulations, you are one of the only things that can kill werewolves. In addition to that, you are socially-minded, constructive, and pretty hard to corrode. You, like iron, are a cornerstone of any collaborative effort. You ( Read more... )

My replacement car finally arrived this afternoon, circa 2.30. I'd had a particularly slow morning sorting out supervision meeting minutes and notes, for some reason a task which I have only just finished. How could it take so long? Possibly?? I am particularly slow of brain and body this week, but really! So I took the car out to town, mainly to ( Read more... )

End of a lovely day, of being just hungover enough to be liminal, not enough to feel too bad to enjoy it. Lovely lovely party last night, much gin consumed, much silliness, but all in a very good humoured way. At about 3.30 am I got engaged to a guitar-playing barrister with almost the same surname as me. Apparently we are getting married in april ( Read more... )

dear all, since wot I am leaving london in days! only days! having one last house party here. Do come, if only to laugh and point as I kiss the walls of my sweet house and drunkenly slobber about how much I love it. Friday 29th, 8 til late.

Its also a sending off party for James, who is off to Bruxelles for 5 months.

So last night, very strange sleep. Dreamt I was in nottingham with insomnia, only realised when I woke up in my london bedroom in the middle of the night, that I had been asleep at all. Was also convinced I had stigmata coming, thinking, just typical that I get something from someone else's faith. At some other point in the dream I was playing my ( Read more... )