Category: Background
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Final Preparations
Well, I use both words in the vaguest of senses. Firstly, although today was my final day of shopping for the foodie things for Christmas, I still have to do some last minute last minute shopping tomorrow. Only for little things, like ingredients for a trifle. A replacement bulb. A cat litter tray. Last minute…
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Don’t you just hate repeats?
I’m having to resort to an old post for today’s post. Yesterday’s post was a fill-in post too, due to time constraints, but that one was an original. Tonight’s, unfortunately, is a repeat. First posted on May 22 2010, just over a week after I had started this blog. I had no idea where I…
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Sunday Spam – The obligatory spam moan…
I have to wonder at times what spammers think they will gain from doing their spamming. I’m starting to think that the spammers aren’t actually people at all, but some kind of infiltrated computerised random blog picker that doesn’t work very well. I mean to say, I have just found two comments in my spam…
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Who links the Norseman?
Charing Cross is an area of London that denotes the junction of Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street in central London. It is so named after a monument that was built in the late Thirteenth Century by King Edward I in memory of his late wife, Eleanor of Castile. The cross was one of twelve that…
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Snow!
I was rudely disturbed from my sleep at just before twelve thirty this morning by an almighty explosion just outside Aquatom Mansion. I shot out of bed with break-neck speed and peered through the bedroom window, expecting to see a scene of carnage and devastation. But things looked normal. Another rolling round of thumpa-thumpa-thumpa sounded,…