Category Archives: still waffling

Little circles. I read Ben Elton’s Blind Faith over the last week – a generally acceptable tome, an image of the future with eerie references to Goog’ing people, Tub’ing their vids, daily blogs and Facespacing them. Nothing amazingly interesting but … Continue reading →

Beer cans. They are sensitive little fellows and will, if you do not take due care, erupt in a frenzy of froth and foam if you do not take proper precautions. Shaking them really isn’t advised. Dropping them is just … Continue reading →

Why does my apple tree (who’s called Annie, for those interested in the names of our trees. The other is called Clarabelle) put the effort into producing these tiny proto-apples, only to dump a fair number of them on the … Continue reading →

Got the PhD 😀 No more details about it yet but got it 🙂 Went to see LOTR the stage show this evening in London – ’twas very well done – obviously not the smoothest storyline as fitting 3 books … Continue reading →

So I am off work for a week yay! On Friday it was the final year revue, which was very good (my favourite sketch being the “Street vet” of the future, diagnosing a dog with “Hypotyroidgizzim”, and the vet version … Continue reading →

So for those following my job shenanigans – an update. I got two interviews, one for job1-with-little-pay-and-many-hours and one for PhD-with-little-pay-and-very-flexible-hours- where-one-can-also-locum, I went to the PhD interview and won’t know til Mon/Tues whether I have it or not. However … Continue reading →

Sod’s law. On Monday I was on call. On Monday was the Snook final. Guess when I got called out? 6pm til 3am, neatly and unequivocally missing the crucial frames 25-35 on TV 8pm til ~10pm. I say crucial, Ronnie … Continue reading →

Anyone else watching the snooker? By choice? I’m loving it! Might have something to do with thinking Ronnie the Rocket is fantabulous – absolute genius, and suitably unpredictable that it makes very good telly too. TV of this evening though … Continue reading →

Gosh, it’s been a long time since I changed my layout – it’s been 1 1/2 years since Peanut passed away, and it was already in place then. *Checks blog* in fact it was put up August 2006. It’s taken … Continue reading →

I was on call this weekend and got ill Friday – nasty cold virus. Still did the on call but with much help from my second and third on call people. Been off work since, thought I was well enough … Continue reading →