Liz Crew

Mostly Chaotic Evil with my own books. Typically Chaotic Good with other people's.
A previous partner would dispute the Chaotic Evil stance because he always said he liked to see at what point a previous reader had paused - I liked that.

Hahahahahahaha! Fantastic, thank you

Help! Pub conversation: is the Mos Eisley Cantina Theme in Star Wars IV a Charleston? It had never occurred to my OH. I've only ever heard it as a Charleston... please advise

Unintended consquences: ex-ministers are dis-incentivised from seeking another position.
Perhaps requiring them to complete a "journal" demonstrating that they are seeking alternative positions, undertaking training or volunteering and reporting to a job coach on a regular basis could help?

Barley Mow or Little Martha are very convenient places to recover from travel. Martha also having a convenient pasty-annexe until 3pm

View of the interior of a traditional pub showing pub memorabilia on the wall behind church pew seating

Holiday. Best pub in town.

A cask ale pump clip saying 'Bristol Bitter' by New Bristol Brewery

This, in the York Tap, on York station. Around the other side of the circular bar was a full complement of Timmy Taylor beers. Allowed myself a smirk

Two pints of beer with a thick head

Hey, Toto, we're not in Kansas any more...

I wonder when the press will make it about another wave of defections to "Our Lady of the We don't like women in ministry". I'm an atheist, and I get tired of it...

If he does go to church, sounds awfully like he's not actually listening to what's being said...

Catholic Cathedral also a thing of loveliness - Cathedral Church of SS Peter and Paul

So, you can tell it's autumn. We've just made a large batch of hot and sour green tomato curry paste. Most has gone into the freezer for winter meals.

Oh! and the phone picked up a LOT quicker than expected. Still no resolution as such but I am armed with a few more facts, at least.

Another day, another interminable call queue at HMRC. At least I haven't been put through their IVR system, and an extra bonus of the hold music swapping between two tunes - at least that's a novelty.

More adult gardening today. Where adult = remembering to do jobs at the right time. Spring me will congratulate autumn me for spending time planting narcissus bulbs

I think I have them all. We buy them, regularly at auction and in secondhand vinyl shops for our 1960's juke boxes. Duplicates are frequent - so end up in boxes in the loft. In the auction house we use, lots of more interesting (Northern Soul, Ska, Reggae) labels regularly sell for >£1000

Indeed. This was about 8 years ago. Today me would have told him to fuck off.

I one met a professional colleague in a pub for a business meeting. It's a pub which is usually very quiet during the day and there are several different areas to sit in.
He sat almost right next to us and after a while he told us we were ruining his pub visit because we were talking about work.

I don't know about productivity in other areas but I suspect a more granular representation of Surrey, E&W Sussex and Brighton and Hove would show how things skewed are in some places.

The glamour of being the COO of a tiny, underfunded CIC. Saturday- QAing old laptops to be donated to clients and fixing door locks with a pair of pliers.
Yesterday sewing replacement seat backs for our loved, but tatty chairs for clients.
Today was all about writing funding bids.Beer O'clock?

Owchie!
This one has a retractable blade but my injury occurred in use - partly because I kinda needed to use it with my right hand...and I'm not right-handed.

In which we learn that fabric cutting wheels are
A) Chiral
B) Really sharp
C) Much harder to use (safely) than Sewing Bee makes it look
and, in not unrelated news:
finger tips bleed A LOT.

I employ a lot of neurodiverse young people who support adults on low incomes and other challenges to get and stay on line safely. Their 'dar is top notch. After a client leaves there's frequently a nod between staff to say "yep, he's one of us".

I definitely need to find an excuse to come back...

All in all, today added more 'multi' into our multi-use downstairs room. We can now add cider making to games playing, camera mending, electronics and record cleaning space. Yep, it done good!

First time cider-making since we revamped the kitchen room.
Humongous sink was a very good choice. Fully opening bifold doors enabled us to set up the press in shelter but with plenty of circulation space. Gigantic decorating sheets left by our builder were awesome for covering the whole floor /1

Brilliant to welcome 119 visitors on another scorching hot open afternoon!

Oooh! That gives me an idea.

One of the best reasons to live where I live is that, at night, I can hear tawny owls hooting away, but it's still only a 10 minute walk to a really good pub and a Waitrose.