I'm going to co-habitate

How very grown up.

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Why is it?

that after weeks of looking like a ransacked bird's nest, your hair finally looks right on the morning you visit the hairdressers, and you're only ever happy with your overall appearance when you know that you're going straight home from work and no one will see it?

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Breaking news

President Mary McAleese is to lay a wreath at Croke Park in Dublin tomorrow, to commemorate the massacre of 15 Englishmen there on 24 February 2007.

Thanks to Jennie's dad for that one!

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Oh Bollocks

I really hope you can't make this out. Goodbye youth.

I've finally hit the wall....

Yes folks, months of working and socialising too much has finally hit me. Spent the afternoon at work with palpatations and short of breath as a result of not enough rest and too much coffee. I checked my bank balance yesterday and for the first time in my life found myself praying I'd been the victim of fraud - alas, twas not to be, unless the fraudster happened to be following me about for the last three weeks withdrawing money at precisely the same time I was.

Still, mustn't grumble, have been looking for an excuse to get out of the drinking & smoking cycle for months now, and now I have hit upon the perfect reason. Poverty.

So plans for the next few weeks involve sleeping, finally getting the bus to work again after 6 months of tube travel, shopping on a budget at Tesco and avoiding Chicken Cottage (3 nights in a row last week - go me), and clearing out my head, liver and lungs. I can't wait.

Of course, I get paid again the day before St Patricks Day, so no doubt my clean living will continue long after that.....

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Just left work and entered the apocalypse

Old horatio's fair shittin himself

Old friends

Good times

I could watch this all day

BBC Sport Player - Highlights: Ireland 43-13 England

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It's Helen's birthday in 17 minutes time!!

or by the time you read this! or maybe even a couple of days before you read this! Woohoo!

We're off to see Avenue Q tomorrow evening - check us out, going to "the theatre". How mature are we?! The fact it's basically Sesame Street puppets talking about shagging isn't the reason at all......

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We had the neighbour round for tea last night

How very non-London. She's called Fiona and she seems very nice. She designs "things out of glass and steel". Mainly underwear from what I can gather. Comfy.

Check her handiwork out here:

Emerald Faerie

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heh heh heh

check out Jill's blog for a very fetching photo of Mr Craig Pearce

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I've finally managed it

a whole day without a cigarette or a beer, for the first time since last year.... It's not exactly been a struggle, but it's a bit worrying the way I view it as a major accomplishment. Still, a tiny acorn begins with the first step, to mash together two relatively relevant phrases in an MTV stylee.

Not only did I manage to stay vice free today, I also made it to Tesco for about the 3rd time since I moved into the flat in september, so I now have a cupboard full of food. And I've made a packed lunch for tomorrow! And I'm about to go to bed, before midnight! So that I can get the bus tomorrow morning instead of the tube! So I save money!

The tiger is taking back control of his life, people, in the most boring way imaginable! Stand back and watch the (indoor) fireworks...!!!

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We spent Saturday afternoon measuring each other in the pub

Now we're going to analyse the data. Not sure how, exactly, but there might be a graph in there somewhere. The first immediate observation is that, going on the parts of the body we measured, I am in fact a girl.

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I've decided to start making a note of all the songs I sing at work

Today was quite a quiet day:

Mika - Grace Kelly

The Longpigs - She said

Daphne & Celeste - Ooh, Stick you

Europe - the Final Countdown.

As you can imagine, my workmates love me, especially given that I ever only know two lines of each. At least it's not as bad as last Friday when they were subjected to "All I want for Christmas is you" by Mariah Carey.

I'm thinking of taking the songs and forming a compilation album - kind of like Radio 1's Live Lounge album, only shit.

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Further to my previous post

Why are dance music videos always so generally rubbish and full of cheap imitation porn stars?

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Ooh yeah baby!

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Join the Flock

I have a new browser after my ongoing issues with Firefox. It's called Flock and I like it. It's basically developed from yer standard Firefox template but from what I can gather from my research there's been a load of shit going on between what is open source software and what's not and Mozilla have now trademarked a load of bits and bobs to stop them being used by other people.

Anyway, I now have a nice shiny new way of surfing the net and it has lots of handy "web 2.0" bits built in, such as the ability to blog anything instantly just by right-clicking on it. Have yet to try this but will give it a go if I find something worth posting. If you're bored with Internet Explorer or Firefox or have started getting redirected via an Arabic country for no apparent reason, why not give it a try?

Wolf Marshall Rocks

This is the video I found last night that Kev has put his faith in, in his quest for rock legend status. God help us. Thankfully, he plays bass in his band.

He would have been so proud

What a fitting tribute herne hill has come up with. Anyone got the "Only Fools and Horses" theme tune running through their head?

Last night....

....I insisted on having a couple of drinks with Craig to celebrate his birthday. He lost his phone, probably around the same time the crack addict-y guy in the pub was giving him a can of Special Brew as a birthday present, while his mate (born and bred south londoner) tried to get me to admit that "Ulster said no" and "it's time to stop the persecution of our people", whilst believing that it was Ulster Protestants who founded America and gave the victims of the famine a safe haven. I didn't want to tell him that Cushendall, where his ancestors came from, was in the heart of nationalist country.

So yeah, Craig lost his phone, all £400 of it, having only recently replaced it after it got stolen a few months ago. We came back to mine to wait for my girlfriend to finish work, both fell asleep, and I woke up at 5am on the sofa surounded by empty KFC boxes, lying with my legs either side of him, and two missed calls on my phone from her. Nice.

Sorry Craig, for insisting we went out and "had a good time".

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My ability to cock up my PC just gets better and better.

My wireless connection is now showing as my d-drive. Which means my DVD drive is no longer there. How the hell did I manage that?

How much are Macs again?

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I don't have a gmail account after all

I have a "Google Mail" account instead. Which isn't quite as cool sounding.

This is my first post from my new browser so am curious to see if it works. You might be looking forward to a deluge of random shit being posted. Or I might have just given my password details to the entire internet, so maybe we'll get some porn on here to liven things up, eh?

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I've binned Firefox

due to it insisting on directing me to Saudi Arabia. At a loss, I chose Opera instead. Which seems a bit pish. Couldn't even upload Andy's poster to the blog. Am I missing something? Or has anyone got any better suggestions for a browser?

(Sorry, tried to make this post interesting and/or amusing but quite blatantly failed on both counts)

I've just got a gmail account.

Much easier than I thought it would be. Just kind of had to sign up for it. Don't really want it now.

The social event of the season

Thanks to everyone who turned out - small in number but huge in generosity, you confounded even our wildest expectations by pitching in a whopping £325 for the Africa fund.....!

You're all heroes.

PS, check out Andy's handiwork above - pretty nifty, eh?

Snowy london...

Amazingly my tubes ran ok. Unlike everyone else, so am sat in an empty office

J translated the Flickr comment

apparently it is some well-meaning photographer explaining at length how my photo could be ten times better. I didn't get the exact translation, but am guessing the words "decent camera", "non-squinty eyes" and "talent" are in there somewhere.

Ever wondered what Saudi Arabian Google looked like?

and this is the lovely screen that comes up when I try to look at images on Flickr!





I'm probably paying for Sheik someone's international phone calls as we speak.

Most of you (myself included) won't have seen Gav for a while

Think you'll agree New York seems to be good for him.

Thanks to Murray for unwittingly let me steal the photo from Flickr.

something's gone a bit funny with my PC

and my google homepage is now the Saudi Arabian version and when I try to look at certain things I get a "blocked URL" message flashing up in Arabic?!

I've also noticed my anti-virus saying it's blocking a "back door trojan", which sounds like it should be in a specialist movie. I'm sure Craig will be familiar with it.... (cos, you know, he works in IT and that....)

I got a comment on one of my photos on Flickr

Unfortunately it's in Polish so I have absolutely no idea what it means. Probably saying "you're shit, can't believe they allow you to hold a camera, you're making my home town look rubbish" or something... I've emailed it to J to ask her to translate...




"infernieri says:
Cześć. Moze warto byłoby sfotografowac pijany domek trochę z innej perspektywy ( przykucnąć, skrócić obiektyw i cyknąc bliżej, troche eksperymentów nie zaszkodzi ), zaczekać na jakieś inne bardziej kontrastowe oświetlenie, aby fotka nie była taka mdła i bez kontrastu. Niebieska dominantawzieła się ze złego ustawienia balansu bieli w aparacie. Podejrzewam, ze robione było w trybie auto i aparacik ustawił biel tak jak mu się podobało. Reasumując: takie zdjęcie zrobi każdy, nawet najbardziej początkujący pstrykacz, niemniej jednak widziałem duzo gorsze i zycze powodzenia w dalszych eksperymentach fotograficznych. Pozdrawiam"

(have had my phrase book out - "Cześć" means hello. Moze means perhaps. Pijany is drunk. trochę means "a little bit". At this point I was starting to kind of work out where the commenter was heading, but also getting a little bit bored. So I just looked up the last word - if it's good then I won't worry. "Pozdrawiam" - regards. Bugger, doesn't tell me either way.)

Oh, and someone else has it tagged as a favourite, so even if I have unintentionally just posted hideously offensive Polish content on the blog, I have that as a crumb of comfort. The worst case scenario, having checked out his/her professional shots of the same building, is that it is constructive criticism... I don't deal well with that. I know it's a bit rubbish!

Yeah yeah, I'm crap

It's been a tough day, ok?

Drying out

If I don't nip out to the shop for a couple of cans later on, this will be the first day since 2006 I have not had alcohol. Makes me sound a bit like an alky, doesn't it?

Weegie Dolmio ads

I'm sure you've seen em before, but I love them. NSFW (or my mum) - strong language!