October 2005

Unheard of

October 15, 2005

Well, it's 9.30am, and to be honest, if I hadn't slowed myself right down to a crawl, I would have been ready to leave for Heathrow half an hour ago. Instead, I put some make-up on (a waste of time as it'll all be off again before I get even as far as the Mid-Atlantic […]

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If it's commuter time it's blogging time

October 12, 2005

Seems the only time I get to blog these days is on the journey home. Fifteen minute wait now til the next train so fifteen minutes to stand and write meaningless drivel on the Treo for your delight and delectation. Almost entirely unprepared for my trip to New York on Saturday. Haven't packed, found my […]

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What the tannoy should have said

October 11, 2005

We regret to inform you that, due to years of chronic underfunding and shameful mismanagement, there will be significant delays on your journey home this evening. When the train does finally turn up it will be overcrowded and hot, and you may well feel ill within moments of boarding. If you do faint, don't worry […]

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28 West Side Days Later Story

October 8, 2005

Gotta love it. (Thx James.)

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Offline this weekend

October 7, 2005

Apart from the possibility of spending a wee bit of time in the office tomorrow morning, I am essentially offline this weekend. Email will remain unchecked. Blogs unread. Webpages unviewed. The withdrawal will be awful – the tremors, the hallucinations, the dry mouth, the pounding heart… Ah, fuck it. What I have planned will be […]

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Bendigedig – Scrabble yn Gymraeg

October 7, 2005

Ar y BBC, mae Scrabble wedi cael ei gyhoeddi yn y Gymraeg. Ffantastig! Dw i rili rili eisiau un… a phobl i chwarae efo. Wel, nawr dw i'n byw yn Llundain unwaith eto, dw i'n gallu rhoi galw i fy ffrindiau o Gymru. Jyst rhaid imi ffeindio amser… Esgus crap iawn, on dydy? Sori.

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Bag pernicketiness

October 6, 2005

So I gave up on the delusion that I would ever be one of those women who need carry no more than a tiny little handbag, the sort that fit a purse and lipstick and perhaps a single, dainty housekey. My keys alone wouldn't fit in one of those things. Where the hell would I […]

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Unpacked!

October 4, 2005

Well, clothes at least. No shelves for the books so they will stay in boxes. I do still rather feel that I've not yet left my yurt behind, though. There are pieces of the puzzle still left to find and put in place before I shake the feelings of temporariness. Whether that's just eight years […]

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Ouch!

October 3, 2005

After two years untouched in my parents' loft, only two strings were out of tune on my Takamine. How's that for quality? Pity my callouses *ouch* didn't last *ouch* so *ouch* well. Gonna take me a while to build them back up again and relearn all I've forgotten. *ouchouchouch*

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Broadband in South London

October 3, 2005

OK, so we really need to get broadband set up at home so that I can leave the office at a decent time and not sit here all on my ownsome just so I can chat to people on AIM. Any suggestions as to what broadband providers are half-decent? Would ideally like something that didn't […]

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There goes my lie-in

October 3, 2005

I was so looking forward to lounging around in bed on Wednesday morning, as I have nowhere I need to be until 4pm, and then again (far more importantly as vodka is involved) at 5.30pm. An easy morning, I thought, unpacking stuff. But no… New bunch of urgent things to do for one of my […]

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The post mortem

October 2, 2005

OK, so Radio Five Live went fairly well I think. I've never done live radio before, so yes, I was nervous, but more because I wasn't sure what the procedure was rather than because I felt I wouldn't know what to say. (Let's face it, the number of times I've been lost for words can […]

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Blogging and Radio Five

October 2, 2005

Looks like I won't be able to blog from the studio, because the keyboard will be too noisy and all you'll hear is the rattle of keys. I never did understand why they made keyboards so rattly in the first place – I don't need to hear when I've hit a key because, oh surprise […]

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Radio Five Live (take two) | RESFEST | BlogOn2005

October 1, 2005

Just fyi really, I'm on Radio Five Live again tomorrow morning, live at 10.30am on the Julian Worricker show talking about blogging and, more amusingly, life blogging the whole thing. So keep hitting refresh and leave your comments on the blog for the show's producer to read through. Tomorrow afternoon, I'm talking on a panel […]

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Only one person sitting on the see-saw

October 1, 2005

Work/life balance? Ha ha ha ha ha. You crack me up.

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