Slumlord? You tell me.
It’s a real pain in the arse when we have a problem with the flat, we have to go through the letting agents who then email/ leave a message for the property owner who will get back to them with an instruction that seems to be along the lines of ‘to fix whatever so long [...]
Nothing of interest, just me being me.
I should be writing a follow up about my experience at #mcl3, or completing any one of the numerous draft posts I have lined up in the blog back room..
Mancunian incompetance follows me down south
My run ins with the Manchester city council Revenues and Benefits Unit have sadly been many and incompetance is the most I have learned to expect from them over the years.
You aren’t what you own
My immediate family have always been amazed at my ability to live quite happily on very little income – in fact the most miserable I ever was was when I tried to keep 2 jobs going to garner more disposable income. I know this as recently I’ve been culling old posts from this blog and [...]
No news is good news sometimes
In this age of instant information we’re all aware of how the media struggles to keep up and ‘beat the competition’ unfortunately this can become an irresponsible obsession.
Clowns to the left of ME..
I’ve been following the You & Yours spot about ME/CFS on BBC Radio 4 out of idle curiosity, I’m not expecting any great shakes from it but it’s certainly pulling a few cockroaches out of the woodwork..
Can our social skills be hurt or helped by what we do online?
I saw this posted in the comments of a blog post by Mediajoltz and it got me to thinking.
Net perceptions
I had an almost argument with my Gran the other day, it’s one we’ve had before because it’s a subject on which we both have strong and opposing views.
Olfactory overload
I have a rather acute sense of smell that can, on occasion, cause problems. Usually it’s while on public transport, squashed in among the general unwashed and fighting the urge to heave..
Begging vampires.. So uncool.
I’ve realised I’m a nice person. No.. Really. Stop laughing! I am. I have proof. My werewolf received an email from a high yield victim (vampire) to ‘plz stop attacking me’ and I was hit with a stomach churning sense of guilt – even though the whole point of the game is for me to [...]
At what time?
There I was having a pretty interesting dream when, as it dissolved around me, I was forced to realise that the sound of ‘More than a feeling’ by Boston was not in fact coming from the car radio of my dream but was actually reverberating around the bedroom through the floorboards.
Fire and Damnation
I didn’t get to have my driving lesson after all, pain interrupted my plans. Seriously, I’m starting to feel a little paranoid, though to be fair that could just be residual pms. But since I’ve been trying to sort out getting a licence for a number of years now and each time I’ve been thwarted [...]
Pub singers
I, as a few of you already know, absolutely adore going to a karaoke, not just because I can sing (although I’ve been accused of this in the past) but because of the atmosphere a great karaoke can bring. It’s not all about THE BOOK and getting up, although having a cracking selection of songs [...]
Bit of a whinge.
I found this quite amusing, according to them next door, the wanker downstairs seems to think that we are responsible for his door getting the boot the other week.
Happy England
A belated St Georges day to you all – I received a politically incorrect text this morning that made me chuckle:
Back to work
I went to the jobcentre plus this morning for my appointment with the DEA adviser, she’s a lovely lass but it was a bit of a wasted trip because the computer system was down and there was not a lot she could tell me without it. Story of my life that, I’m beginning to think [...]
WTF?!
Very odd happenings around here. Our neighbour appears to have vanished. We heard a load of banging last night but ignored it – he’s always banging doors, we’ve remarked a number of times on the hardiness of them the way he slams about. Since we’re just ignoring him after the incidents mentioned in that there [...]
*ahem* *points at calendar*
Yes, yes.. I know it’s shallow (as Stef made a point of telling me when he started reading over my shoulder) but the day in which we celebrate the arrival of my squalling, blood and mucal covered self into this world is close at hand. I know, you already knew this, (I can see you [...]
Couldn’t have said it better myself
This letter says everything you need to know about ME/CFS
Juuuuust great.
Ok, so I got a crime number from the police, the joiners came around and temporarily fitted a new lock and made an interim repair to the front door, we’ve a new one on order but for now I’m not leaving the place empty until it’s been fitted, no matter how secure they say the [...]
Hows this for live blogging
I’ve just had my front door kicked in by the police. Why? Because Stef and Ian went downstaits before to get that TWAT to turn his music down (at gone 1am) so I could go to bed and sleep. 20 minutes later the front door goes, I go down, 2 lads in balaclavas with a [...]
Popularity contests
It seems life does come full circle – even when it’s a virtual life. I’m blaming Master K for this of course, he talked me into joining the twitter thing which in turn had me noticing a few other people on there, this in turn had me checking their blogs – which then had me [...]
Mother in law wisdom
My MiL made an interesting observation actually, not about cfs/me etc but about the mindset of people these days.
Sci-fi or fantasy?
I’ve just realised, I read Jamies blog a lot.
Shitter of a day.
I’d set my alarm for 10am, just to make sure I was up and ready for this medical assessment, sadly I was just too knackered so I shuffled the alarm up to 12pm and went back to sleep. We went off to Albert bridge house where the ordeal was to take place. Stef dropped me [...]
A day in the life..
I wake up, distinct lack of enthusiasm for moving from the bed to the bathroom despite an insistant nagging from my bladder. I lie there almost dozing for a couple of hours, halfheartedly trying to convince myself it’d be a good idea to get out of bed – I know if I really push myself [...]
This is just sick.
I received this the other day from a trusted source and I assure you it’s not a joke. Dear All,
Procrastination at it’s finest
Seriously, how better to procrastinate than to read about ways of avoiding it. Genius
I dunno..
Can you believe the reason I cannot log into my web account is because my host took it upon themselves to change my log in details without informing me?
BASTARD!
GRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.. Some sneaky little witch has locked me out of my account – I cannot do a DAMNED thing on my website, it’s either been hacked or my blokes attempts to retrieve something I had stored on the host have buggerd it up – he’s only just told me he tried logging in before we [...]
More eBay nonesense..
I’ve had to escalate the paypal dispute to claim status. I’m seriously wondering if it’s worth all the hassle – it’s even causing rows between me and Stef now and that’s pissed me off more than anything else. I think I’ll be laying off eBay for quite some time now – I just can’t afford [...]
Latest on the ebay fiasco
okies, here’s what I sent to the paypal resolution centre about 2 minutes ago: I requested confirmation of shipping from the seller as I’d had no correspondnace and they were no longer registered on ebay. I gave them a little more leeway after they emailed me to apologise and state that a job offer over [...]
That’s just extracting the urine!
Before you read any more of the saga you probably need to go here.
Ricky Gervais
I’m not sure if those of you over the pond are aware of who this guy is, over here he’s basically an ‘A’ list celeb these days.
It’s not fair!
I’m beginning to think someone somewhere doesn’t want me to start making these watch sets for ebay. I’ve given up on eBay itself as my watch face supplier and I’ve tried 4 different websites this morning – 2 of them didn’t ship to the uk (and they only tell you this once you get to [...]
I’m turning into Victor Meldrew..
When I was a kid I wrote into ‘the Gusher’ aka the Daventry Express, I wrote about the apalling lack of facilities around for kids who had no money and nowhere to go – I wrote it in response to a person who complained about the gangs of kids hanging around the end of their [...]
Benefits update
I’m actually half thankful that this benefit screw up has happened. OK, because I have no paperwork covering the dates they claim I owe from that could prove I do not owe the money, I have to suck it up and pay it. However,after speaking to the welfare rights people it appears I can at [...]
I hate our government
HATE them. REALLY really really hate them. Has anybody else received a letter stating they owe X amount to the DWP from sometime 6-10 years ago? I wouldn’t mind but if they told me AT THE TIME that I owed them money it would’ve been paid.I always pay my debts which is why I was [...]
I’m a writer..
I can say that quite truthfully now. I was asked to contribute an article or 2 for an M.E. website, this is the result. I know, it’s not really a big thing in the grand scheme of things, but I was quite chuffed that not only did they ask me, they’ve used the article and [...]
Kill.
Runaway by Del Shannon is a classic song, I love it usually. Having it on repeat at full volume at gone 2am is another matter – especially when it wakes us up. Yes the muppet downstairs was truly on form last night.
Who’s a nasty piece of work then?
I made someone cry today. Well.. The bottom lip was going and the eyes were suspiciously bright, and there was a definite reddening of the cheeks..
Superstitious? Me? Nooooooooooo..
I went to a talk today that was supposed to be given by Dr. John Gow about his research into the biomedical markers for CFS (which to you and me means finding a way of testing reliably for the illness by looking at the way our genes react and then showing that reaction in a [...]
Ni-iiice.. Not.
And people wonder why british teeth are in such bad shape..
On education..
Ok, master mutta got me thinking (stop laughing you lot, I do happen to think on occasion!) I know he wasn’t really referring to education in the UK but in a more general sense, the thing is, his post does raise some valid questions:
new neighbour from hell
Sadly it came to my attention at 2.15am that our new downstairs neighbour is completely lacking in both moral fibre and consideration for others.
People suck.
See, I do get up before 9am *grin* Admittedly this morning I had help in the form of a small reminder as to why we wish to move. After getting my first good nights sleep since returning from Italy I woke up feeling incredibly warm, got up, opened the window and returned to bed for [...]
what happened to ‘need over want’?
I now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that people are stupid. I was aware that there are people in the world who will pay £700 for a handbag, yes that’s more than a little daft when you think that £700 could keep a small family fed and housed for a month , but [...]
A parable for modern times
I was sent this by a mate and felt that every brit who stops by could identify with it – sadly.. a parable for modern times (or the real reason the BNP have such a large following) A PARABLE FOR MODERN TIMES.
Damn damn and double DAMN
My Pc is female and she has the hots for my man. It’s the only explanation. Now he has his own pc, it’s newer, faster, prettier and he spends his life on city of heroes with her (yeah, cheers for that K..) My little lady is throwing a hissy fit.
Just peachy
I’ve been feeling pretty crappy lately, drained, aching and generally under the weather – this has not made me an easy person to live with.
30 years and this is what I’ve become..
I woke up to the sound of rain against my window. Normally that’s a rather comforting sound as I cuddle up to my beloved but this morning it just added to my general mood. I lay there, half asleep, wallowing in my misery until the early morning peace and quiet was shattered by the strident [...]
Crap crap CRAP!
I never thought driving a diesel would be so different to a petrol car – or perhaps its the change in make and model that’s the problem – or maybe, just maybe, I’m a crap driver.
Driving
I cannot get clutch control! It’s starting to feck me right off. But I can’t practice (no car makes it difficult) and by the time I’m starting to get it the lessons over and I have to wait and do it all over again next week.
Thugs, the lot of ‘em.
My brother Richard was up yesterday with my cousin Ria, we had a family ‘do’ to attend. The thing is – none of us knew the family members in question. Felt kind of weird introducing myself to the person who’d invited us all and having him sit there for a couple of seconds mentally trying [...]
Religion is NOT an excuse for stupidity
Mustafa shag Apparantly the latest Anne Summers toy is offensive – I mean REALLY offensive. To Muslims.
Meh
My reading habit is slowing somewhat – I’ve only read 16 books this year – and at least half of those were teen books. My dvd viewing habits though… *grin* I love amazon, truly I do. now if only I could find some none strenuous work I could do from home to earn the money [...]
Just feckin’ MOVE if you hate it here so much!
It’s just a fecking cartoon.
blog traffic
I’m starting to remember why I stopped using blogexplosion. My stats are hardly worth looking at due to the hundreds of people skipping through in a mad click frenzy. I only went on there because I got an email about a message – then I thought I’d go check out the people I had blogmarked [...]
murder?
The truly delightful nature of the place I live has been thrown in our faces again – I’m just so glad we were out last night.
um..
I’ve been up since about 4am following a fairly disturbing dream. I woke up completely disoriented, I didn’t know who or where I was because my dream identity still had me in it’s clutches. I nearly died of shock when Stef started snoring because until that point I hadn’t even realised I was sharing the [...]
How a news story develops
We’re down visiting the folks in London again and at about 06.05 we’re awoken by a thunder like rumble, the house shaking and the loft entrance flying open. As you can imagine there’s much shouting back and forth between the rooms as to whats going on, there’s a car alarm going off outside and several [...]
MEN!
Stef, my beloved – the evil one who has the ability to wrest a smile from my face even as he tortures me, has asked that I tell this tale from my point of view.
I just *love* my gaff, truly.. :0s
Ok, since coming home I’m getting used to people hammering on the door in the early hours waiting to come in – the problem is it’s a toss up as to whether the first people we see are the builders or the police. *sigh* Seems Mr. Jason Boyd has been a naughty boy again. I [...]
fireworks and fancies
Ok, I’m back for a quickie *grin* I’m just not tired – well, not sleepy tired… I’ll admit to being a little nervous about thursday, I’m still having trouble with these temporary bridge things, thursday the permanent ones get put in and I’m worried that they’ll hurt too. *sigh* I’m such a wuss when it [...]
Dentistry sucks, take ‘em away!
Not feeling too clever at the mo. Was reminded yesterday why I hate going to the dentists. Mainly because I’m still in too much pain to eat anything solid. I have a couple of temporary bridges in and they HURT. I mean REALLY hurt. I’m not feeling too optimistic about my next visit in 2 [...]
society today..
This depressed me. I’m only 29 and I can’t even chew steak properly *sniff* as to crusty bread… If I attempted something like that I’d end up bleeding – or at the very least howling in pain. I should have been Chinese.
I HATE spiders!
Had a horror yesterday. We managed to avoid all the accidents along the M1 and the M62 – the main one we saw looked nasty several HGV’s crushed and battered – obviously nasty because they had the incident van there as well as the usual police and fire services… But awful as it was, that [...]
we gotta get out of this place.. really.
Another arrest warrant arrived today for Master Hyndman. Apparantly all my phonecall did was change the colour of the paper used. *sigh* The bailiffs have started arriving as well, gotta love council properties and the people who came before you to them…
history
Ok. There’s definitely a history at this flat. I just shit myself – figuratively speaking of course. It’s rare anyone uses the doorbell here – but to have it going off at gone 2am on a saturday night/ sunday morning is definitely not the norm. Made me realise I need to get a chain on [...]
Gits, the lot of ‘em
Well, it’s official. I’ve just checked my finances and I’m skint – again. At the end of October I need to pay my dentist over £300 for badly needed work on my teeth (all cheer, I’m finally getting it sorted) I also have to worry about Christmas and a few other financial commitments.
freephone? i don’t think so.
I’m now officially moved in *grin* Yup – mesa connected to the interweb *happy dancey dancey* just in time too – see what Stef found for me…
misheard lyrics
Conversation between me and the bloke this afternoon: Me: singing along to the commitments album
bills? don’t even THINK about them near me!
United utilities can kiss my MOTHER FUCKING ARSE! I’ve spent all morning attempting to get through to them, I finally get through the automated service for the nth time and instead of waiting till they cut me off again, I request the automated call back service. So, I get a call back, the lass speaks [...]
it’s all a big conspiracy..
Brandie’s leaving us *sniff* Bitch. Anyhow, I can’t remember if I wrote this uninformed allegation on my blog or whether I only mentioned it when I emailed the above lassie. I mentioned that the London bombing could’ve been a kind of ‘fundraiser’ (yes, I watched ‘The Long Kiss Goodnight’ recently) something to make us British [...]
oh the stench!
I think I must have an unusually sensitive sense of smell. Really. Am I the only person around who understands the importance of personal hygiene? I’ve already mentioned the filthy beast I currently reside with (who by the way is not my fella, how people mistake these things so easily lol To clarify for people [...]
just another day, nothing to see here.
Um… I’m famous! Wowowowowowow LOL I’ve been Michele’d *grin* Not only do I feel all special ‘n’ stuff, I’m kinda in shock. Serious – I saw over 50 comments on the counter and thought haloscan was playing up again! It’s gonna take some going through to look at all you guys *panic* I’m mooooooving I [...]
purple is the way people – and bombs mean nowt here
Well, Life goes on – and to prove it I have today purchased for myself this delightful new toy. You see I need it as the likelihood of moving soon is great – that being the case – Sean has far too many dvd’s I need to copy and take with me, I’ve become far [...]
bombs away
I’ve had a day to process the images I first saw this morning. I’ve spoken to friends and sent god knows how many texts today – if nothing else the phone companies are always happy in a crisis.
avoid public transport today if you can
That was a bit of a rude awakening. Text message from Sean at Victoria Station: Everythings going bugfuck here in the station. What the fuck is happening down in London? I’m getting about 20 different versions of whats happening here…
pan handlers must die. or at the very least earn a whipping..
I’ve discoverd that Portland is the same as Manchester in one regard – begging. I hate beggers – I think everyone hates beggers. There is definite proof that you don’t need to be jobless just because you are homeless – and if you are homeless then your cost of living is WAY lower than mine! [...]
racism or prejudice?
I don’t normally talk about anything even remotely resembling politics but a thought struck me today. I remember a time I was on JSA (unemployment benefit aka ‘the dole’ for any non UK visitors) this is going way back to ’95 when I first moved up to Manchester from that craphole known as Daventry. But [...]
Council beurau-crazy
I went to the housing people today to clear up a few things, the lass behind the counter was abjectly apologetic (always nice) and gave me a complaint form…
home again
Going to madrid has proven to be more trouble than it was worth *sigh* Not only did I have to deal with the whole homesickness/ missing the blokey issues while out there, I got back to a major earbashing off my beloved Gran and mail that brought me to tears.
Scumlord
I have come to the conclusion my landlord moonlights as a mule for drug dealers. My reasoning is that only a vast amount of drugs could explain his behaviour because no-one who has earned enough money to buy a whole street can be this incompetent. I’m thinking the stomach lining has ruptured and he’s finally [...]
I have a virtual life, but I love it.
I began thinking earlier of just how much time I would have to myself if I gave up the internet. Now, I know that the time I spend online these days is but a mere fraction of the time I’d spend this time last year, but it is still quite a substantial portion of my [...]
karaoke etiquette
Ok ok ok, stop with the emails already!!! I’ve had no net access that’s why I’ve not posted. Aside from about 15 minutes at the tail end of Stef’s library session on tuesday I’ve been netless – it’s awful! (Worse for Stef though, he works from home *grin* That phone company is gonna get it [...]
dentistry debates
Yes I know, it’s another post. I can’t sleep (again) sue me. I thought that some of you in the states and any of my fellow Brits may be interested in this little debate as it explains why I still have a false front tooth on a plate (aka denture) only 2 servicable back teeth [...]
Men have it easy!
Just been for a quick sqizz here That’s why I’ve just spent the last 10 minutes attempting to make my right foot fall off.
joy de vivre or some such
Finances, gotta love ‘em. My sick pay was £66 short this month, I’ve finally managed to get through to someone who can tell me why. It appears that I was supposed to be informed over 2 weeks ago that I need to start claiming incapacity as they are no longer able to pay me. Great. [...]
Having a whinge, leave now.
Having M.E. sucks great big hairy donkey bollocks. I do make a conscious effort not to moan about it in general – to anyone. If I’m honest I try really hard not to even think about it. But I’ve had a long chat about it today and so many things are buzzing around in my [...]
Never move to Germany!
My housemate is back up to his “lets show Vicky some shit that’ll screw with her mind” tricks again. I’ve just been subjected to hobo porn. Nuff said – it’s SICK! but that led to another of his weird and wonderful discussions (I’ve currently left Stef talking to him so I can blog, I dunno [...]
Hunter S Thompson
It’s been a while since I was in a thinking mood, but then its been a while since I had any time to myself to think, what with work, being ill, talking to people and traveling to various places. suffice to say, I’ve had an entire evening in which to think.
Life? don’t talk to me about life!
s’been a while *sigh* computer is still playing up, and im generally too tired when i get in to faff about with it so sorry, but infrequent vicky updates are all ya get at the minute. and this one is a whinge so feel free to hit the back button and visit elsewhere till i stick a [...]
housemate must DIE
Well. ive had a pint of brandy and coke. im listening to as many nasty tunes as i can find on my hard drive – current tune being Pitchshifter ’2nd hand’ none of it has helped work myself out of the FOUL mood im in. I have had a SHIT couple of days at work, [...]
A bouncers lot is not a happy one
GRrrrrrrrrrr… being a little girl in security is not fun sometimes… our lil oz friend had been doing sidestage for most of the night with no problems – now he’s only a couple of inches taller than i am but no one queries his ability to chuck a guy out. The problem only started when [...]
People are people.
John Martyn, basically a rather good example of how even the most messed up of people can be a creative genious (listening to the ‘solid air’ album again on the ol’ chill playlist) i dont think i shall ever get to the stage of not liking his stuff.