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In work til 7pm. Went to Waitrose. Did stuff like cut my nails and pluck my eyebrows (due to few spoons left at end of day this requires planning). Now doing books. Have work call at 9.30pm but can at least do this from my bed.

Jokes about working from my bed go here.

I'd make a boring escort though as I'd just fall asleep on them zzzzzzz.

Paradise Lost last night TOTALLY ROCKED.

( gig report )

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This reminded me of the Sex Ed scene in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life....

One of the things I got rid of today was a large plastic and cloth sunflower. I bought this in 1993 or so, and then when I ended up ill and in hospital over and over the sunflower always came with me. Mainly because it was the symbol of one of the main Irish depression charities for a while. Hospitals disapprove of you bringing too much crap in but the staff all LOVED the sunflower.

But for years now it has languished in my bedroom and is falling to bits. I decided - I can keep my memories, but I don't need a physical reminder. And I'm not that ill any more, and am unlikely to be again. I don't need something to grab and hold on to to keep going, literally.

So bye bye sunflower. Thanks for the inspiration and help.

I haz a new desktop background. I love aerial photography. Isn't this beautiful? I never really believed the green thing before...

I made a comment on my status a few days ago that I loathed WW and everything they stood for, and a few of you asked me to explain why. It's a bit long for a comment so I'm writing it here.

( weight and diet stuff, mostly slagging off the diet industry )

LJ is refusing to give me anything but the lo-bandwidth version of the main page or update page - even after I purged my cache, cookies and browsing history and rebooted my machine.

Friends page is fine, just as normal.

This has happened before but it just went away - anyone else ever have this problem and what did you do to fix?

To all on LJ.

DH came home today to find both cats staring VERY hard at one corner of the kitchen.

Later, he released a very frightened mouse from ginger kitty's paw and put it outside.

The cold snap is driving the mice indoors, sadly, the reception at ours is..... turbulent.

Tourist day deux. Today we went across the Millennium Bridge (pretend to be on Spooks! No sign of Harry Pearce) and into the Tate Modern. The Tate was great as usual - instead of trying to hang the entire collection in a humongous space so you get museum fatigue seeing it all, they only have 2 floors of their permanent collection and they rotate it around a lot. I was happy though as they had some Francis Bacon paintings on show. On the subject of the sunflower seeds -I have a lot of time for conceptual art, and am not one of those ignorant idiots who complain that modern art" is "shite" - but the sunflower seeds seem rather pointless to me. I guess the idea was for people to run around in them, but they aren't letting people do that any more.

Then we walked to Borough Market to discover it was closed. Southwark, btw, has become hipster central. However hipsters like to eat well. We ended up having lunch in a very unhipster pub called the Shipwright's Arms. Then we walked across Tower Bridge (in the rain at this point) and walked back to the flat.

Later we went into the West End. Found a row of Korean restaurants just behind Centre Point and had a very tasty and relatively inexpensive dinner (25 quid for 2). Then we had some slightly expensive ice cream in Soho, Speculoos flavour mmmmm.

Being a tourist in London is fun.