It's the weekend, excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable...

Just taken delivery of 12 bags of coal, 10 bags of wood... Winter is here, it seems...

Lancaster pigeons have learnt a new trick: hovering before you, hummingbird-like, trying to peck your pasty...

There's a party starting in 9 hours. Do you think it's too soon to start drinking?

Bored of the train now. The fake, jolly, blitz spirit of the overcrowded train has long since faded and been replaced by empty-eyed despair.

Full of veggie sausage and mash. And peas. I overcame my natural, deep-seated fear of peas and ate a handful of the horrible things.

Beautiful, sunny day in London

In lovely London...

Off to London... hey ho.

Rough and tuff, hard and tuff, rougher than rough, tuffer than tuff...

The old man with parking obsession is not happy - someone is in his spot... He's examining every car in the street, been out there an hour..

Feel like I'm swimming through mud today. A wide river of mud. With muddy crocodiles. And rocks. Rocks covered in mud. And it smells a bit..

Nothing like a walk around a graveyard in the pissing rain to enthuse you for the afternoon's work.

People under my window discussing 'ow time flies' and 'aye, I remember im when ee were this big'. Considering shouting at them to move on...

Your brain has just finished installing important updates. Would you like to restart your life now?

Oh dear, this laptop is unhappy....

Girl in front of me in the shop bought lucozade, condoms and chapstick. Good night in, that.

Falafel Verdict: 7/10. Needs better pitta and pickled chillis, but not bad!

The fabled falafel stall!

Staring at the splash of blood on the kitchen ceiling and sighing.

Is it the weekend yet? (Please lie if required)

I love it when Americans want to talk on the phone, or start doing business at 4pm our time... No! Get up earlier!

Spent lunchtime painting my windows. You'd think such a productive act would leave me with a satisfied glow.. But no, I just smell of paint.

Thursday is turning out to be depressingly busy...

When faced with an approaching, dull, working afternoon, look nonchalant until it gets close, then trip it up and kick it repeatedly...

Computer! Coffee, hot, with a dash of rum. And play some nice music. Heating up 2 degrees, and lower the lights. Yes, that's better. *sigh*

Grey day, damp, chilly, half asleep, computer buzzing, unread email waits, coffee already finished... Right: lights! kettle! itunes! action!

Was going to spend lunch hour painting the window frames. Old clothes - check, ladder - check, paint and brushes - check, rain - check...

Alingan Bajis recipe

Published a recipe for Alingan Bhajis

http://www.ralpharama.co.uk/item.php?itemid=659&page=Alingan+Bajis+recipe

These cheese and potato bhajis are a popular snack in north-west India. They are very easy to make and hard to get wrong! Best served with chilli sauce, chutney, curd or yoghurt.

Despite not having a heavy weekend to recover from, I feel equally numb. So the question is - why take it easy if Monday is always as tough?

Going to the all day, all night jazz festival at the Gergson... bloody t9

Made some Alingan Bajis. excellent! :)

Time... for wine...

Left overs for lunch...

Listening to jazz. I must be ill.

Cooking chimichangas, wine helps :)

Yakiudon lunch

Hungry. Thinking of having a kind of Yaki Udon for lunch - fry up some big fat udon noodles in thick soy (and I add chilli ;)

Eating seaweed soup with steamed dumplings, then off to watch Mesrine at the Dukes.

#it My sunset pic from the other night, I forgot to upload it.

Small sandwich for lunch: quorn bacon, cheese, hummus and chilli sauce. mmm, healthy.

Thinking of lunch. A little too much perhaps. Pasties, pies and pizzas spin in fractal paisley patterns when I close my eyes...

Found the Bourbons. Currently dunking them into my morning mocha. They last for 6 seconds before beginning to lose structural integrity.

I don't even like Crunchies, but have just eaten one - the only instant-food I could find in the house, after failing to locate the Bourbons

One project down, only a dozen to go... :(

A beautiful day here in Lancaster!

Disruptive day. The people on the roof distract me...

All the girls are playing with guns. unusual night...

Speechless.

Amazing Lancaster sunset.

Bit rough today. Perhaps it was all the wine I drank last night and the late night?

Lunch of quality...

People annoy me.

Cut a struggling hoverfly free from an old cobweb, spent 5 mins carefully untangling its legs & wings. It flew straight into Nimba the cat..

Walked face-first into big spider's web in the garden, then minutes later threw my coffee in the air when I felt something moving my in hair

A day of fiddling with data - shuffling excel to sql - pressed ctrl-v a thousand times already... :(

Argh! The letters between y and [ n my keybard have sted wrkng :( *sgh* ff t C wrld then...

The iTunes shuffle feature is not random. Either that or my computer just wants me to listen to the same bloody dozen songs forever.

I sued to do all my best, cleverest work in the mornings... Something seems to have changed...

Lazy Sunday....

Dark side of the line... :)

Off to see a double bill of Freaks then Antichrist with the twisted film club at the Dukes... Happy days.

making damson gin, be ready for Xmas :)

At story slam, at storey. Prepared to be, well, I'm not sure what really.

The entire company, apart from us home workers, has gone on a picnic for the afternoon. So... I'm supposed to stay in and work?! o_O

Contemplating lunch... I'm thinking that a sausage and egg sandwich with brown sauce might do the trick?

Is about to go into a video meeting... Should probably put some clothes on.

Excellent curry lunch...

For a short week it's feeling extremely long so far...

First day back at work finished, thank god, and at least some typing-related neurons are still intact.

Spent all bloody morning on the bloody phone. I hate talking on the phone. What a waste of time. The weather? THE WEATHER!? Rant, rant.

Happy to find 5 new Facebook friend requests waiting for me after Solfest :)

On holiday today, pottering, dithering, relaxing, recovering...

No longer stinking and muddy, but do feel like my brain has been blended somewhat. Right, pub then?

I don't care what any of you say, chicken and mushroom pot noodles are excellent ...

Quite tired after 5.30am cat/moth affair. Suffering some Solfest stress - costume still not ready & can't find anything I need to take...

Rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain and more rain. This is #lancaster

Have to go into town today with a big, eclectic shopping list, in the rain. *sigh*

Oh what a beautiful morning.

in the Cheshire cheese pub, London ...

London later today. *sigh* Girding my loins, charging my gadgets, packing my bag...

Calmer. Wine helps these things, really. Asian food soon, then setting fire to things in the garden, noisily. With more wine. So there.

spending so many hours in town today when it is so sunny and hot has made me feel rather murderous...

#it #ifancyacoffee ... :) mmmmmmmmmmm!

Haul from the wonderful Mung Mee...

Spicy potato wedges topped with Singapore curry, and a glass of claret...

10 minute Japanese style noodle soup for lunch

Ah! The joyful sounds of the neighbour and her 4 kids returning from holiday. Where are my earplugs again?

The milk is still there... might move it next door...

someone just left two litres of whole milk on my doorstep.... why???

Joy of joys, got a nasty trojan - rasvsnet. Struggling to get rid of it and its pals...

Another day, another 22,000 error emails...

Tarka dal and rice for lunch. tastes better than it looks!

Wrestling with a complicated sql delete procedure... Can't pin him down, slippery bugger...

Having one of those days where I have to make Cylon-style noises and slap myself about to remember what I'm in the middle of doing...

My day seems to be devolving into all-day-drinking. *sigh* Hello, White Cross.

Rain. Joy.

Just tried all my vodka macerations, for fun. A good lunchtime activity.

Lunch is re-fried left-overs...

Sooo hungry, found some 'spicy cashews' which might just save me from an early lunch...