Just booked myself a blood test for Monday, to be sent on to the diabetes clinic in Aylesbury *squirm etc*. Let’s see if I can faint onto, successfully knocking over and consequently concussing, another doctor, with both of us just lying there in a heap :D It’s always amusing when they get me to lie down and stay lying down afterwards for a few ( Read more... )

Go and see Hard Candy at the cinema, now.. seriously.. This comes highly recommended by me (not that that means anything, of course, but it's worth saying ( Read more... )

As of today, I'm not a teenager anymore :) 'Bout bloody time.

Hope you're all doing well.

Went to see the Edward Scissorhands ballet last night, which was fantastic. This is very true: 'Large sections of the story are told through mime, without dance, and the result is less a traditional ballet than musical theatre ( Read more... )

Last night when I approached the bar at the pub:

Old woman: 'No, dear, I'm from the church, I need some plates...'
Barmaid: 'Umm..'
Old woman: 'Look, I just need you to lend us some plates, OK?' (rude or what?)
Barmaid: 'OK, I'll just call upstairs and see if that's okay'
Old woman: 'I'm sure it will be fine. I need them quickly, dear.'

Barmaid ( Read more... )

Just in case anyone's interested and might not have heard, from July you'll no longer have to pay a subscription fee for Film Four :) I believe they're scrapping their additional channels though, which kind of sucks.. Films'll play from 3 pm in the afternoon though, rather than 6 in the evening ( Read more... )

Back from two weeks in America. Have been working every day since I got back, five days ago, so haven't unpacked my suitcase yet :\

( My grandparents have done something a bit odd.. )

I've received an offer from Oxford Brookes, despite making a late application and not really meeting all the entry requirements ( Read more... )

Today, at work, I served Darren Gough. He seemed to be zoning in and out whilst I was talking to him and I had to repeat virtually everything I said at least once.. I had no idea who it was till my manager rushed over to see what'd he said, after he'd left the shop. I'd been watching him as he walked round beforehand because I thought he might be ( Read more... )

I got a 'B' in my Law exams :)

+ to Horror fans, SAW II + The Exorcism of Emily Rose are both out to rent/buy this coming Monday.

Has anyone actually seen the Emily Rose one? All the avid, hardcore horror fans who come into Choices nearly every day of the week (I'm still not quite sure why..) are all hideously excited about it, so that's very