Current mofos

* The French – not all of them, just the ones who barricaded the port of Calais. My MacBook is trying to get through, asshats.
* Blogger – they may be free, but moving to Blogger Beta has ballsed up my individual post pages. They no longer publish with a .html suffix, which means that the [...]

Sew-Up Sunday

Today is Stir Up Sunday, the day when you traditionally make the Christmas Pudding. Everyone has stir of the big bowl of dried fruit, spices and alcohol and makes a wish before the mixture is packed into the pudding basin and cooked.
However, Sam made a fleet of puddings last year, so this year we’ll be [...]

Growing old isn’t easy

The realisation that I’m no longer 18-24. Oh, the pain. I so very nearly clicked the “Prefer not to say” button.

10 random things

Christina wanted to know 10 things…
1. It seems that I’m a total lightweight. I’ve finally found a way of drinking coffee that I actually enjoy (milky and with 2 sugars), but with each small cup I consume I get this little buzz that makes me feel as though everything’s alright with the world. Then that [...]

The post that was and now is

So, today I wrote a post. Then I thought I’d wait until I’d finished loading all my photos onto Flickr before I published it. Then I had to restart my machine. Only, I hadn’t published the post. Bum, tit and willy, say I. Now let’s see if I can recreate the magic that I denied [...]

Market day – part 3

I really do need to hurry the hell up and finish telling you about my travels which took place, let’s see, 5 months ago. After all, I have vague wafty plans to be a favourite with a different set of sailors next year and it would be nice to think I’d finished my Ecuadorian tales [...]

Quarter of a century

1.06pm – my own 50mm lens to play with, a few spangly gifs on Myspace, a pretty silver chain around my neck, various people on their way to shower me with gifts, a phone call from Lauren in Germany. So far so good. I’m finally beginning to feel like an adult, too.
2.32pm – Nobody else [...]