summer?

guess what? it's still raining!

think I've adapted to the english mind-set as all I seem to bang on about these days is the weather. and what a depressing topic of conversation it is. if I'm not whinging about the inclement conditions, then it's the condition of my health - an equally dull discussion point, I hasten to add. It's just that I'm so flippin' fed up with being flippin' ill (2 months and counting) so give me sunshine... please!

shopaphobic

how is it that some people shop as a leisure pursuit? and why?? it's so boring, stressfull, and effing expensive. rails and rails of hideously over-priced, impractical garments that'll fall apart in no time, and gimmicky, consumerist hard-sell tactics to make you buy, buy, buy (the material of nightmares). today, unfortunately, I was forced to purchase clothes for my 14 yr old as she's lost and/or grown out of everything, and hasn't had a bag of hand-me-down cast offs from anyone for ages. and what a painful ordeal it was too. oh to live in warmer climes, where all you need is a sarong or two...

online again

whod've believed that BT would come to the rescue? thankfully the fuzzy phone line wasn't the result of any faulty equipment, so I didn't have to stump up the £199.58 engineer's call-out fee. turned out to be corroded wires up a pole in the back yard of a vacant property up for sale some 42m down the street. now that normal services have been resumed, no excuse not to blog. damn.