Monthly Archives: August 2007

Finished

Remember that landscape painting I started back in January? Well, I struggled and strugled with it, repainted it again and again. But it just wouldn’t work. Nothing came right. So, the other day, in a fit of anger after a … Continue reading

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O Noes!

There is going to be a remake of that classic SF film The Day The Earth Stood Still. With Keau Reeves as the alien Klaatu. Ack. This could possibly be the worst remake of a classic film since the 2006 … Continue reading

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Getting This Show on the Road…

As you may have noticed, I have now installed Skype (I refuse to use “I’m Skyped!” or some other some horrible mangling of the language). So any of you with a Skype connection can now talk to me online. You … Continue reading

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Yech…..

…is what I’m feeling today. Had another tachycardia attack last night, just after I’d got to bed. Spent an hour lying there, willing it to stop, then went downstairs (very quietly, so as not to disturb B) to get a … Continue reading

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Music…..

….since I bought these earphones for my ‘puter, I’m discovering all sorts of wonderful music. I’ve never had sound on my machine before; I had speakers for a while, but could never get the sound to work, then Son borrowed … Continue reading

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Frazzled…..

Just sent off Transit to the printers. Spent yesterday and this morning getting more and more frazzled. I was trying to put the magazine together, discovered that a regular contributor couldn’t make it. So I had to delete four pages … Continue reading

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Tired…

…so tired today, and yesterday too. OK, yesterday’s tiredness was apparently caused by a bout of insommnia the night before. I stayed up late again last night, but only until midnight or so. But today I am still tired and … Continue reading

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Woke up….

….feeling blahhh. Besides the usual (headache, stiffness, nagging bladder) I felt low and depressed. This was probably to do with something I’d talked about with a friend last night, an ongoing situation that gets me down sometimes. But, it’s my … Continue reading

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Proof….

…that cannabis – especially when combined with a shedload of other pharmaceuticals – can be bad for you comes in the no-longer-chubby form of David Shayler. The ex-MI5 whistleblower appears to be shapeshifting into the new David Icke.

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