Today some combination of Emmy and my rational mind booted myself out of the comfort and safety of my bedroom and into Cheltenham to go shopping. Wasn't that bad actually, apart from the stress of having a normal day means my head hurts like it's got stuck in some kindof clamp. Nothing that can't be solved with a large quantity of ibuprofen though. I got a couple of not-too-uncomfortable bras from...

How am I? I'm fine, if a little busy for reasons I'll come to in a paragraph. Spent last weekend at home, seeing the family. I think I've got this dandling thing down now. I did have a terrifying conversation about drink which I might tell you about later if I get some stuff done. Two sleeps* to holiday! I expect you all to behave yourselves over the next three weeks, and if you must misbehave, try...

Being an update from Andrewland. We have a new flatmate! Provided 'i's dot and 't's cross, steerpikelet will be joining us in a little while. Also I'll be moving up into the front bedroom, which will be interesting. But Ros is leaving to join the circus move in with her very nice boyfriend, so we still need someone to move in in early August. If you know anyone who can help, sing out...

To summarise my ramblings of my previous post , i guess i'm trying to choose where i want to be on the spectrum of vegetarianism - vegan, vegetarian, pescetarian, or somewhere between. These things are always on my mind, but it really came to a head today when i read steerpikelet 's Fuck The Animals , which then led me to Julie Bindels Why I Hate Vegetarians . And now my brain feels like...

steerpikelet KICKS ASS. About Simon Cowell on the radio... "he looks like a baked potato". That cracked me up :) And of course, everything else she said was spot on as usual!

Dear Emma - note to self - looking like somebody , and being responsible for creating them , are not the same thing. Warren Ellis CREATED Spider Jerusalem WHO HAPPENS TO LOOK LIKE Grant Morrison THAT IS ALL (Apologies to steerpikelet and oxfordgirl for your missing comments. Now I own my shame!)

Anton Vowls blog sometimes makes me want to do a little cheer when he spots things like this  that i'm not smart enough to notice, but make so much sense. All his blog posts are definitely worth reading if you like to rip apart stupidity in the media etc like i sometimes do. steerpikelet inadvertently leads me to all the most interesting reading. I've stayed in bed too long and now i can't...

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I got back home, by the way. Here I am, online. Meant to tell steerpikelet   this on Sunday, but memoryfail occurred. Dear strange writer, you remind me very much of Yelena Rossini. Keep it up. My thanks again to deviantcreature   for the food, shelter and accompaniment to Liverpool St. I may actually learn to take the Met Office seriously now. Work contract has been extended for another...

Vatican says pill cuts male fertility : The president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, said the pill "has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of hormones into nature" through female urine. "We have sufficient evidence to state that a non-negligible cause of male infertility in the West is...