Monthly Archives: April 2005

Well, here I am, faffing again when I should be working. Woke up this morning from a fairly miserable night of nasty dreams of being choked and smothered; my sinuses were burning and blocked, so I’ve got a cold, obviously. … Continue reading →

Well, got back from my daughter’s wedding. The ceremony itself went OK, except that Daughter no 1 failed to turn up, having fallen out with everybody (yet again); we delayed everything for 15 minutes, but she didn’t show. But all … Continue reading →

Not feeling happy. Got the coal bill this morning. Ugh. And we have to get money together to go down to Preston at the weekend for D3′s wedding; we’ll be lucky if we have enough spare cash after filling the … Continue reading →

The Oakleaf Circle website has won an award! Here is the text of the email (all identifying stuff blocked out so that it doesn’t show up in the search engines). Hello! This is X, Junior Editor for XXXXXXX.com, the internet’s … Continue reading →

I thought that I had written a pretty definitive article on end-of-the-world prophesies, in 1999. I’ve been quite proud of my research and never let a chance to advertise it go by. However, trawling though the blogosphere today, what do … Continue reading →

…and, as the Americans would say: “It’s all Pope, all the time!” I’ve just spent time trawling through the TV news channels trying to find non-Pope news. Apart from 10 minutes of sport on BBC News24, there’s nothing. It was … Continue reading →

This morning, the Universe played a joke on us, and it wasn’t funny. Every four weeks, we get B’s pension paid into a bank account; this morning was pension payout day. So we drove three miles to the nearest cash … Continue reading →