Month: November 2008
Went around the Co-op this afternoon for a few things. Absorbed in the cleaning section, it took me a few moments to recognise the song that was being…
“Live like Ann Frank in a lovely Amsterdam attic”. Entire top floor apartment located just opposite the Anne Frank house. A very nice location, Dam square 5 minutes…
…last night. The phone rang, the display showing a mobile number. I picked it up and a mechanical voice started reading out gobbleygook. It sounded like random characters,…
Getting off Verapamil wasn’t so easy as it appeared. It’s thankfully gone now, but for the last three days, I had a continual headache; looking at various medical…
I’ve taken myself off the Verapamil tablets; six months is long enough to try it out, and it really wasn’t doing me a lot of good. The main…
I have finally got Linux installed on the old laptop, and am now able to blog from anywhere in the house – at the moment, I am comfortably…
OK, I’m a sucker for competitions. There’s one running at the mo to find the “coolest” WordPress blog. Irritatingly, the organisers don’t give any indication of what they…
Just been out to fill up a bucket of coal for the night. And the Moon is looking gorgeous – nearly full and high in the sky, surrounded…
For me, the big event of the day was an exact astrological opposition between Uranus and Saturn. So I’ve avoided getting involved in any celestial pile-ups by spending…