"....the perfect mix of total bollocks and absolute simplicity...." - is apparently what this blog has. That's what Aaron thinks, anyway.
I have two alternatives in my mind for getting to work tomorrow (tube strike, for non-Londoners) both of which involve getting up at about 6am. The first is to try and get up and ready early and catch a bus well before the worst of the crowding starts. The second is to walk - if the weather's fine, doing the walk along the river could be really cool.
Lara came over and joined us for lunch this afternoon - lovely to see her, though I've done so more recently than most of the others when I was in NY last month. Great interlude in the day anyway though.
Still feeling icky - my sore throat is driving me mad because it constantly feels as though I've got something I need to cough up, but there's nothing there.
Interesting to note, watching Big Brother last night, that the way they're covering Jade has definitely shifted.
The end of the edited highlights last night involved the rest of the group having played a joke on her by hiding and making her think they'd all somehow left the house. Then, after she emerged from the diary room, they were all sitting around outside pretending they'd never moved. It probably would have been funny if they'd left it at that, but Alex threw in an entirely non-jokey sounding dig at how she keeps saying things even when it's obvious she's wrong, which caused her to go to bed alone. The last shot was of her in the dark, curled up on the bed, and at one point I thought I heard a bit of crying.
Now for all I know, two minutes later they all went in and apologised, and everything was right as rain, but regardless of what happened, the impression that the show as broadcast left was of Jade as innocent victim being bullied by the increasingly-unpleasant Alex.
Don't get me wrong, I still don't want her to win (I don't really *want* any of them to, though I could handle Kate or Jonny doing so), but I still maintain that the ridiculous hate campaign by the tabloids generally and The Sun especially was disgusting. The Sun even ran a story the other day detailing problems she's had over her council tax and rent - where the hell is the public interest defence for that? I notice though that even they've had to recognise that there's suddenly a very real possibility that she may even win.
This is so weird. I was sitting at home last night, feeling absolutely fine, then I suddenly sneezed once. Since then, I've been sneezing constantly, I'm congested, my throat hurts, my head aches, and my glands are up. And it all started instantaneously - there wasn't so much as a hint that it was coming on.