My father talking about their new foster child:
Oh you’ll like her, you have lots in common: she’s vegetarian!
She’s also 14 (I’m 31) so presumably when we hit a dry spot in conversation we’ll always have Quorn.
Update: Having been up to Birmingham to visit family I find out she’s no longer vegetarian! Fortunately we did […]
Work folks were all outside The Salisbury last night to give Jasper a good send-off when this strange Australian girl attached herself to our crowd. There’s been a lot of turnover of staff recently so at first I just thought she was someone new from the office, but her bizarre behaviour soon put that […]
As you may be aware, I was quite ill the other week and ended up spending a night in hospital. Anyway, I’m fine now, but had a follow-up doctor’s appointment today.
One of the things I wanted from the doctor was a sick note for the two days I had off work last week due […]
Bryn, I have been generally happy with smile. Since online is the only place you get to do things with them they tend to have it all worked out. The only thing I dislike about their web interface is that they make the back button log you out “for security reasons”, but at […]
I’m not going to FOSDEM because I have spent most of today since about 4am alternately vomiting or curled up in a foetal position with incredibly painful stomach cramps.
No throwing up in the last 5 hours and cramps reduced to the point where I can actually use the computer, so fingers crossed I’m past the […]
Recently I’ve been slagging off Russell Brand, because the association with Big Brother and the constant appearance in the gutter press really turns me off.
It still does turn me off and I do think he’s in danger of everyone becoming sick of it, much like nobody cares to hear about Pete Doherty anymore, but I […]
Last night we finally got around to having our Strugglers Poker Night. Unfortunately I did not do anywhere near as well as in my first poker game!
There were four of us present: myself, Matt, Phil and Simon. We started playing just after 8pm, and stuck to the plan until just after 10pm when […]
A few weeks ago (yes, I suck at blogging on time) I took a brief trip up to Birmingham to visit my parents. I think the last time I was up there was Christmas 2004; I’d missed out last Christmas because of work committments, and I was under a lot of pressure to make […]
“People should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of their people.” — V
I went to see V for Vendetta last night at Odeon High Street Kensington, with Tim, Matt and Phil.
I’d been trying hard not to build this one up because most adaptions are a severe disappointment to those who enjoyed […]
If you have no debts and some savings then hurry to set up a cash ISA as then you don’t get taxed on the savings. You have until the end of the tax year on April 5th to have an ISA set up with this year’s allowance.
Money Saving Expert now recommends Alliance and Leicester’s […]