- Went to bed late. Slept badly. Woke up late. Heating not working. A cracking start to the week. #
- Bashed my big toe going upstairs, fell to my knees & hurt them too. Asked dog to go for help. Dog asked for tummy rub instead. #craplassie #
- @Scampering: mine was entirely self-inflicted (gaming too late then reading) – hope your cats & other half performed better last night :) #
- The Etsy "local items" option makes me want to scream. I shouldn't have to reset the location after every single search. Arrgh. #
- Has coincidentally visited a lot of different sites hosted on @brightbox today. A speedy fast browsing day! ;) #gottheirfingersinallmywebz #
- #uksnow bd10 5/10 big fluffy floaty chunks #
- Still in bed, should probably get up soon… #
- Wondered why the grass was crunching under my feet. Looked down to find thousands of individually frozen dew drops on the blades. #
- Lovely meal with team @brightbox & +1s. I had a nutella and mascarpone calzone. Possibly the most sickly, gooey thing I've ever eaten. Yum! #
- Lol, we were sad Lily couldn't tell us what she'd gone up to on her night with our neighbours. Checked email, neighbours had sent pics! :D #
- @urbanwide: that's what i said to john when i got home too – if we'd taken semaphore flags, we could have chatted across the table :) #
- Have to leave the house today. The stove-warmed house. The animal-filled, stove-warmed house with Mumford & Sons playing. Don't wanna go :( #
- @IdleSi: I have a strange almost-sexual attraction to the way he pronounces his consonants. I'm too weak-kneed to escape while it's playing. #
- Lily-dog and Carla-cat have spent most of the evening asleep together. The bonding power of winter. #
- While I'm reading about Deliverance, the forgotten-about plumber silently sticks his head around the door. Frightened the crap out of me! #
- The dog jumped up and it was at that moment that the cat realised she hadn't been sat on a self-warming cushion after all. #
- Not a great start to the morning – two of my best girls are feeling poorly – Lily-dog & Lime the chicken :( #
- @IdleSi: Possibly. Or too much running around after Pippy and the kids in the cold. She forgets she's a little old lady sometimes :) #
- After the chickens have their porridge, they like to wipe their beaks. Today one stole a tissue from my pocket to wipe with! #
- Lily seems a lot better now – not 100% but better. Think she was faking to have a lazy Sunday. She's such a good fit for Team Peach. #
Categorylife
The general parent category for most of the things I write about on here.
One of the more interesting Louisa-centric sub-categories is biodata (where I explore my personal history with graphs, maps and whatnot), and if you’re that way inclined, you can read about the wonderful felines and canines with whom I’ve shared my life too.
- ? @really_good: My Google-Fu is failing. How do I make a Caribbean-style sweet gravy? Not a marinade, an actual gravy. All ideas welcome! #
- Back from an intense 2.5hrs doing the last rehearsals before the kids' drama exams tomorrow & Friday. Hope they do as well as they should! #
- Might have just killed a budding internet friendship by posting links to fetish pictures in their blog comments… ;) #
- (Fellow filthy minded people, these are said pics http://is.gd/ipzBa They're not that dirty really. Just when knitting and kinky collide.) #
- @IdleSi: where have you see David Ward supports it? I'm not disagreeing that he's said that, I just want evidence to write to him about it. #
- For the record I don't have the patience to knit anything that involved. And also I'm itching & gahing at the thought of all that wool. Gah! #
- @Scampering: I know! I'd previously seen a more disturbing set (imagine, if you will, velcro slits) but unfortunately I can't find them now. #
- @kaerast: both very good points. and you'd want to wash them A LOT. there are so many goodreasons not to develop a wool fetish, so many. #
- I can either smell burning or poo. Or burning poo. #
- ? @recycle_this: Our favourite ways to make recycled Christmas decorations http://is.gd/ir2lt Lots of lovely stuff, no paperchains in sight! #
- .@johnleach & i took stones onto the bridge over the canal & threw them hard at the frozen surface. they bounced with a cool noise. #
- Well, that was a lot closer than I thought it would be. Still angry as hell though. #tuitionfees #
- @IdleSi: just seen it. what a tosser. and phillip davis says he voted against. does that mean we have to like him now? #
- Echoing @grwndi, I left uni with £7k of debt, took me 9 years to pay it off. Poor kids leaving with £30-40k debt, saddled for life. #
- @Squiggle: go Green, all the cool kids are doing it. ;) #
- Nearly went on the dog walk without a coat. It's positively tropical out there! #
- Today I have ticked off two big been-lingering-for-a-while jobs. Hurrah! #
- Inhaling the gorgeous aroma of sweaty cat for the first time in ages. #
- Lovely day in Meanwood – first running about in the woods, then reading the paper & dogwatching at East of Arcadia. Food bit mediocre though #
- @thattommyhall: all of you or just one part of you? is it amaretto seeping out of your pores? #
- The cat has found a way to sit on the clean washing before I've even put it in the laundry basket = climb on the airer. fur everywhere. #
- .@johnleach would like no one to know that for tea he'll be cooking something from yesterday's Guardian (albeit with chicken not pheasant) #
- Seems me & @comicnrrd are "style" clones, just swap the band shirts for web ones & the pin for 20lb. It's a classy look. http://is.gd/hVGIP #
- Starting the day productively – trying to come up with a quick snappy comeback for something said last Wednesday. I'll get there then zing! #
- @urbanwide: i'm going to do that with my mittens this year too :) #
- @kaerast: i concur. and the ones that are pretty are usually horrific to modify behind the scenes. one day i'll make some good ones, one day #
- Think I've been doing too much css stuff recently. Out on a dog walk, looked up at the sky and thought "ah #cccccc it'll snow soon". #
- .@johnleach is doing an unintentional impression of Jack at the end of The Shining while collecting wood: hopping in the snow, axe in hand.. #
- @davidsmalley: as john said, i've been giving the hens warm water making them a warm porridge thing. water was frozen solid this morning! #
- @davidsmalley: lily came out with me earlier – miscalculated one step, face planted into the snow, shook off, kept running. FUNNY. ;) #
- The woods are well eerie this evening – stark black trees/beck and unearthly glowing white. Silent too: next to no A657 traffic, no birds… #
- Walked to Idle to see Katherine and that young Joseph. Hills! snow! unfun! (but nice to see them when I got there) #
- Took Lily & the neighbours' springer Benny for a walk in the woods. Much fun was had by all. #
- Apparently our bus routes keep better time when it's snowy than when it's fine. missed 2 buses today because i'm used to them being late! #
- Ate a whole lot of garlicky cheese for lunch. I am fragrant. I hope it'll show @johnleach that he shouldn't go for pizza without me. #
- Got a bit overeager making snowmen in Lister Park, balls too big to lift (phnar). Ate cola cubes while lily made snow dog angels instead. #
- Trying to log out of Twitter and getting a 500 Internal Server Error. Is Twitter the new Hotel California? You can tweet anytime you like… #
- An email came in from our accountant. "Ah!" I thought, "responding to that won't take more than two minutes." It took 3.5 hours. #
- Have decided that I've had enough of people ripping off my websites' content. Anyone got any cease & desist templates/advice? #
- Very tempted go visit Azeroth one last time before everything changes. If I can get a Windows machine, I might have a long weekend there… #
- @IdleSi there are also some versions in Latin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZNFWFbN-zg #
- Solved the Rubik's Magic thing again about five seconds after the Movie Thing team left. #
- Drama classes finished for the term – just got to get them through the acting exams now. I think I'll be more nervous than them… #
- Will most definitely be staying in bed as long as possible today. I planned ahead: have laptop, stack of work & mobile heaters (cats & dog). #
- @Scampering funnily enough we've just watched the eggs-are-lizards epi of the Simpsons (http://is.gd/hPkGm). I'll get some gorillas ready. #
- @Scampering oh yes, that's exactly what's going to happen to me later. I heart PBF too btw, all the different art work styles are great :) #
- Just got back from our walk and the snow started again – pretty floating flakes but still quite heavy, awesome pink sky! #
- @JamesASinclair are you wearing them with kitten heels and a good bra, as we've discussed previously? if so, phwoar. #
- Rather than working this afternoon, I've been coming up with atrocious chicken puns. Productive. ( http://www.thereallygoodlife.com/929/ ) #
- Spent the whole evening writing up minutes. Ugh. #
- About half an hour ago, I put on a clean hoodie. It is now covered four kinds of dirt. #
- 22 minutes into the day and we're already making poo and penis jokes. Excellent. #
- Water co sells my details to Homeserve. Homeserve coldcalls to sell me insurance. I twitter search while on the phone. So no, definitely no. #
- @Scampering haha, ace. any unrecognised numbers calling from now on, I'll answer the phone crying to set up the impaled on railings story :) #
- Am reading the new Hyperbole&aHalf, the dog is doing all the dog-related sound effects. Because I'm NOT LOOKING AT HER. http://is.gd/hlAaH #
- Discovered that an individual pie case is the perfect size to be a comedy hat for the dog. http://is.gd/hqwKp #
- I wonder at what point in our relationship/aging @johnleach & I will stop randomly giving the other the finger in response to minor triggers #
- Van just gone past. C Butt Logistics. *insert your own bum and/or poo joke here* #
- Made another shelter for the chickens out of scrap wood and pallets this morning, getting @johnleach involved made it way more stressful! ;) #
- Newspaper & stove, chickens & woodwork, Scrabble en route & drama in Bingley, now gaming & stove, soon lasagne & garlic bread. Good day! #
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