For those of you wanting to know what this Hitler In Heaven thing I keep blethering about is, here's a trailer for you.

In other news, I finally have my car back after nearly two weeks in the garage. I can try to sell the damn thing now.

It's helium, to keep the pressure levels in the MRI scanner under control ( Read more... )

This is a bit technical so y'all might glaze over. Feel free to skip to the bit at the end about the kitten ( Read more... )

I can't help but feel my cats have a better life than I do. 

 Yesterday I had a long natter on the phone to my friend Jenny, whose birthday it was. I haven't seen her in ages but it was good to catch up with the news ( Read more... )

I managed to come up with some good parts for Mark & Isabella today, including a new chapter which hopefully contains Mark's first lines of actual dialogue, and introduces Isabella as a character. Progress, there. Meanwhile I am neglecting my writing group project which I have to add a section about some smuggler or something and which I have ( Read more... )

 This weekend just gone, as I'm sure many of you know, was Dimension Jump, the Red Dwarf convention. Monika and I drove up to Peterborough on Friday afternoon through slow traffic but got there in time not to miss anything. So nice to see the familiar faces of so many friends who I will not list individually as I am bound to miss someone out (I ( Read more... )

The car is now repaired, though it will need future work on part of the power steering which will cost £500! So I'm putting that off as long as possible. Now I can't buy scout trooper armour without a heavy guilt trip ( Read more... )

 Today has gone downhill. Work was OK, then this evening we went out to Kerry's leaving do (even though she's not actually leaving... long story) and had a nice time. When we got back to the car park we discovered it was locked and we could not get the car out. Not such a big problem, we could take a taxi and retrieve the car in the morning. Then ( Read more... )

I have tried to place two Interflora orders, one after the other, paid for on the same card because the website is too confusing to do two flower sends as part of the same order, especially to Poland. One worked fine, the next one immediately came up with a "credit details refused" message. This is no doubt a repeat performance of what the bank did ( Read more... )