- donned leather palmed gardening gloves at midnight to help a stranded hedgehog back over the little wall into the park. #
- thought she swept up all her sewing fluff and cut-offs last night. In the light of day, it’s apparent she did not. #
- is easily amused: “Which cheese would you use to entice a grizzly down from a mountain? Camembert.” teehee. #
- is getting over-excited looking at small animals. *bounces* #
- had a lovely day out with katherine – lots of animals and a lovely lunch too. shame the weather got in the way of paddling though. #
- is in a vicious circle: when I get stressed, my ears hurt; when my ears hurt, I get more stressed. #
- starts the day with a game of catch the cat vomit. #
- has a fading stamp on her hand: a casual observer may think it’s from some cool exclusive club; it’s really from a stroke-the-animals farm #
- accidentally deletes a whole bunch of her personal email while cleaning out fluff and stuff from under the delete key. #
- has some very excited cats. #
- loves the internet, loves the internet very much. i want to hug it. #
- is ready to go for pizza but no one else is. HINT. #
- ate a smidgen too much at lunch. by “a smidgen”, i mean half a pizza and a slab of rocky road too much. #
- just nearly knocked a glass of water over @johnleach’s new phone. sssh! don’t tell him. #
- is *still* full of pizza. #
- is delighted how much the cats love poached salmon trimmings – best 15p i’ve ever spent ;) #
- woke up feeling good and happy. turned on laptop, instantly deflated. sigh. #
- very much likes this today: http://little-people.blogspot.com (link from @threebt) I think I have seen them before but they still delight :) #
- would like to apologise to everyone – it’s my fault it’s got windy and is about to rain – i thought i’d dry some washing outside. sorry. #
- feels strangely lost whenever Wikipedia blips off the internetz for a moment. #
- is taking our poorly cat Silicon to the vets for the last time. heart breaking. :( #
- dreamt about Sili. In the dream, I told her I was dreaming because “you’re not here any more” and she was lovely old, pre-cancer Sili. :( #
- is having lunch lovingly prepared for her by @johnleach. He’s enjoying eating raw carrot just a little too much. #
- has a question for people at Unity Day: heading down there shortly, should I wear trainers or wellies? #unityday #
- is very pleased to have randomly come across this photo on Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/7kFbf #
- returns from Unity Day. Glad I wore my wellies. Not the best Gillroyd Parade gig ever because of sound issues but a fun evening anyway. :) #
- loves having Sundays off work now. #
- looks up Thora Birch’s age on IMDb so @johnleach knows whether or not he can find her attractive in Ghostworld. She was 19, so he can. #
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.
(Day out with Katherine at Hesketh Farm, Bolton Abbey) See Fluffy run!
- had success making butter, less success with the buttermilk cheese, paneer is setting – next ricotta, lemon cheese and dinner at salvo’s … #
- thinks the super-easy paneer & butter were the best creations of the afternoon. only made enough ricotta to fill a tablespoon. dinner now :) #
- has had an email from a long-lost old (pen)friend today and spent the rest of the day catching up – a lovely way to spend the day :) #
- has inner-ear wobbliness. #
- loses another day to mortgage stuff #
- has to stick her hands in to stop boron and the stray cat *properly* fighting. scratches a go go. #
- thinks in some parallel universe Alternate@johnleach & Alternate@louisa_ have got it frickin’ made & can’t believe their ongoing good luck. #
- is now ready to start her working day after 4 hours of running to and from banks, and an hour of house valuing preparation. *FUN*. #
- decides to give herself half a dozen small, achievable goals so she can actually feel a sense of accomplishment today. first: eat sandwich. #
- saw these guys practising in Mr Foley’s last night. It was surreal but fun to have them scary-dancing right next to us. http://bit.ly/EZY0J #
- thinks it can’t be a coincidence that when the other cats bend down to steal the poorly-sick cat’s food, they look just like vultures. #
- orders pizza for team brightbox #
- feels specrapular. hates her ear and nose tubes. #
- is having to make her own damn tea. boo. #
- might just clean out her cup before making herself that damn cup of tea. http://bit.ly/mCWm1 #
- @IdleSi #cheesefest i’m in! i’m all about making cheese at the moment. #notaeuphemism in reply to IdleSi #
- has been doing annoying website housekeeping things today instead of “proper work”. hope for a more productive next week. #
- is really rather excited about the prospect of curry this evening. But what to have? What to have? #
- is scared what @jeremyjarvis will try to trouserpress next and suspects @sarahjarvis should watch out. #doesittrouserpress #
- spilled olive oil on her top. Wiped it off with a napkin – napkin covered in sauce. Bought replacement top, spilled ice cream down it. N … #
- is all about grape soda at the moment. Stuff in bottles seems better than stuff in cans. Neither contain actual grapes. #
(or why you shouldn’t leave dregs in your cup if you take milk and two sugars, and are out of the house for a day.)
- has completed disappointingly few items from her to-do list today but have crossed off some big things, which is at least something. #
- only intended to come back onto her laptop for a second but got distracted by the world that lives on here. boo interesting things, boo. #
- might very well just scream. #
- apologies to strowger78 for suggesting that it might be worthwhile dual-booting his laptop. it was clearly not worth it. sorry. #
- watches 3 cats cheese it from the same place – wonders what lured them all over there in the first place and then what scared them away. #
- @IdleSi I’ve pimped #sausagefest on ThingsToDoToday – http://www.thingstodotoday.org/2009/07/14 – we’ll be sausaging later :) #
- watches 12 year old neighbour flirts with a should-know-better 30-something neighbour. is somewhat disturbed. #
- has a legitimate work reason to be reading Twitter. awesome. #
- has watched the magpies eating cat biscuits for the last few weeks, now the cats are eating the sunflower seeds put out for the magpies. #
- realises as the sausages and mash are being served that they should have made onion gravy too. doh. #sausagefest #
- wonders if anyone has an ad network recommendations – to be used in addition to Adsense preferably. #
- realises she’s going to get spammed to buggery by bots for that last tweet. hopefully the actual advice from real people will be worth it :) #
- is glad she has guard cats protecting her from the scary outside world: http://bit.ly/guard-cats #
- @sugarquay isn’t that illegal? even for equal ops monitoring, i thought there always had to be a “would prefer not to say” option in reply to sugarquay #
- @sugarquay they were once mighty? in reply to sugarquay #
- is warm. #
- and @jeremyjarvis pull more people into their magical WordPress whirlwind of unproductivity. #
- thinks a helicopter is hovering directly over the house or the magpies are getting *really* persistent. #
- is being seriously stalked by the magpies now: they were on the bedroom window sill this morning & are now staring at me from the phoneline. #
- is fighting with the cat for control of the cursor – she’s moving the mouse, i’m moving on the trackpad. #
- wishes she could go to the cinema in her pyjamas. may blind the fellow filmgoers with their garishness though. #
- thinks she’d like to try a day of sea fishing from the north yorks coast this summer. any recommendations? anyone want to join? #
- dropped a whole lot of popcorn down her cleavage. Snacks for later. #
- is frustrated at being unable to find out any information online about a quilting bee tomorrow at scrap in leeds. anyone know any details? #
- saw a flyer for said quilting day in arcadia last night so will have to return there if the internet fails. @johnleach will be delighted. #
- is feeling queasy :( #
- has an idea involving bottle caps and a big hammer. will have to wait until I’m feeling better tomorrow though. #
- lets out an anguished wail: “no brown sauce!” #
- realises if she has any “things to do before turning 30”, she has just 6 hours, 39 minutes left to do them in. #
They will get confused when there is more than one way in and out of the house. We will trip over them less.
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