Chocolate and Vodka

Due to technical difficulties, such as the shops being shut on Monday morning when T'Other and I had a scrap of time to go shopping for my birthday present, I didn't get my Moleskine until yesterday, but to make up for the delay, T'Other bought me a nice (and reasonably priced) Lamy pen. We can't […]

Where you wake up late, (due to being woken up by chavtastic neighbour's daughter's ex ringing all the bells available and bellowing to be let in), look at the huge pile of unread email that's come in and just think, “Eww, do I have do?”.
The sun's starting to come out, it's Friday, I had a […]

I think the fanbelt is going. It squeaks like a canary with its tail feathers caught in a cat's teeth.
I also am starting to realise that working from home seems to correlate very strongly with quantity of blogging. Whether it's because I feel more like I can blog, or whether it's a time thing, or […]

It's generally a bad idea, if one is covered in a flammable gel as part of a medical treatment, to then light up a ciggie - the resulting flames are usually bad for one's health.
Update: And indeed, a Darwin Award is now under consideration.

Article on teaching teenagers to be happy, from the Guardian.
I wish adults would spend more time learning how to be happy, and that more bosses would decide that happy employees were important. Instead, we have this mad mindset that says happiness in the work place is obviously a sign of skiving, and should be stomped […]

Not really all that work safe at all, I'm afraid, but very funny. (Thanks KM.)

The weather forecast said there would be sunshine from 10am this morning. The weather forecast was four hours out, but finally, the cloud has cleared and the warm rays of the sun are making the new Arsenal stadium glint like a, er, big new stadium in the distance.
It's Good Friday today. Most normal people have […]

So, if you're a long-time reader of this blog, you'll already know about my writerly leanings. You'll have seen me talk about my scriptwriting; you'll have seen me writing about learning languages (still not finished); you'll have heard about my acquiring a literary agent (whom I still have, by the way, and who is still […]

So T`Other`s brother (ooh! that rhymes!) has this really great PDA/phone called a QTEK 9100 or an XDA mini S depending on who`s selling it to you. I've been thinking of getting one of these for a while and now I'm getting to play with one and I have to say that so far I […]

Adidas have reissued the Gazelle. I have a pair of Campus which are over a decade old and which were still serving me well until Christmas in Brugge when one started to leak. I loved them, and the Gazelle is a very similar design. I am on a mission to find a pair. Right now.
I'm […]

I rather stupidly put 70 quid's worth of silk skirt through the washing machine. It is, to say the least, a shadow of it's previous silky black self. I mean, the dye hasn't washed out completely or anything, but it now has a grey sheen to it that it didn't have before but which makes […]

My darling Cleo died on Friday after a short illness. She is already missed.