Teenage Mutant Ninja Tattie

For tonight, I am Shredder. The flat is all signed for and, barring any last minute catastrophes, this time next week we'll be sitting in our "compact and bijou" (i.e. tiny) flat in "vibrant and edgy" (i.e. dodgy) Brixton. The week is going to drag, especially given we've been waiting for almost a month to move now and we've decided to have a week off the pop after a heavy birthday-related 7 days. So, we're busying ourselves with getting prepared, which tonight means finally shredding and binning 3 years worth of bank statements and paperwork. We got as far as sorting it before Spooks got in the way. Baby steps and all that. Cowabunga, indeed.

Must be fate...

That a lonesome little falklands islands pound coin has found its way into my wallet. "Return me to Stanley!", it brassily urges from my pocket... One day, young friend, one day,

Police in "doing their job" shocker

Makes a change from sitting on their fat arses eating doughnuts i suppose

Silence returns...

Given my recent efforts, it perhaps shouldn't be too much of a surprise, but the blog is about to go quiet again for a little while.... I'm packing my computer off to the countryside for a rest this evening until I move flat, plus I'm off to Poland on Sunday for a week. I'll try to keep you updated on proceedings in my little corner of the world between now and the end of the month, but safe to ...

Read More »

You wait 2 months....

....And finally reclaim your computer, and can't think of what it was you used to waste 3 hours a night doing on it. Honestly, am I just rubbish? Apart from Facebook surfing for 2 hours, I can't think of a single thing to do. I'm actually watching Eastenders on BBC3 such is my lack of inspiration. Any suggestions? Keep 'em clean.

What's new? Well, I've somehow apparently evaded the credit crunch ...

Read More »

Scratch my earlier post

For verily I hath stumbled across this, which makes my eyes water just reading it. Is this legal? Or do they still have surly blokes with baseball bats forming their "collections" department. Surely there must be rules in place to prevent companies like this offering such terms...? Gordon! Alistair! Sort it out!!

Who would be hard up enough to go for something like this? In what circumstances? How can you possibly need 2 grand that desperately that you would apply - the repayments alone are £200 a month. It beggars belief. I just hope it's a typo.

Provident financial loan - 2,000 over 3 years

Jeez

I've just been looking at loans on Moneysupermarket.com. There are some companies offering credit at 64.1% - meaning to borrow 2 grand over 3 years would result in you repaying almost 4. Dark times.

Hmmm

Am watching trans world sport, reminiscing about getting ready for mini-rugby in the late 80s and apologising to myself for smoking in my own room. Perhaps time for bed.

Moyles away from entertaining

I think the single most irritating thing in the UK must be Chris Moyles' intro "thing" at 6.30am. It's bad enough having to be awake at that hour. It's an inestimable amount worse to have to listen to this bird-song, strings and pretension heavy 15 minute long extravaganza. You can just imagine the thought shower at the buzz session. Let's put the dog on the table "boys". You're mid-30s men trying to appeal to 12 year olds. I'm surprised the Daily Mail hasn't tried to expose you yet. So. Explain. Why can't i stop listening to you?

It's feckin freezin

I know this as i've just been hanging out a kitchen window trying to wake up in order to escort j to the airport bus in an hours time... There are even stars visible in the sky, no great shakes in some of our more rural environs, but sufficiently odd in central Brixton to prompt a brief "ooh" from me as i hung precariously over someone's garden. I'm now back enveloped in polish conversation of which i understand not a jot. It's remarkably soothing though, to the point i'm in danger of a wholly inappropriate falling asleep episode...

Super Seth

You've potentially heard about these already - short animations made by Seth McFarlane of Family Guy fame. For Burger King for some reason.

Very amusing though.

I managed to drag out my journalism career the other day

In that I mentioned smugly that I had two columns published in the Londonpaper. Increasingly, however, it's seeming pathetic when I tell people, "oh, yah, I wrote a couple of times for that rag..."

"really?" they'll ask, "when and what about?".

"err, once two years ago and once about a year ago. The first time about an inability to grow a beard and the second about rescuing a fly from my pint". ...

Read More »

Relief at last

As we speak, J is on the South Coast putting the finishing touches to her thesis, thus (hopefully) bringing to an end months of stress.... It looked very impressive to my untrained eye, and all we can do now is wait and see what more educated people make of it...

It means I can reclaim the PC for a bit as well, thus enabling me to update the blog a wee bit ore regularly. Not much has been ...

Read More »