• 19:35 Walked all the way to Camden earlier to go to supermarket. Tired now. Going to make myself some steak & chips for dinner, nom :o) #
• 21:58 Bought a box of spatone, even diluted in orange juice it tastes like you've licked a railing, yeuch! #
• 22:25 @incurablehippie @redclaire To be fair, it's not as bad as I was expecting, at least the 'licked a railing' taste wears off fairly quickly! #
• 08:12 @redclaire When I travel that early, I sit in the quiet carriage and take earplugs, an eyeshade & a pillow. That way I don't kill anyone :-D #
• 08:14 @redclaire I am not a morning person, as you may have guessed. You in London for anything exciting btw? #
• 08:27 Have licked my railing for the day *feels virtuous* #

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• 10:35 Bloody NHS. Appear to have fallen through a gap because I've chosen to book into a hospital out of catchment area, now having probs with #
• 10:35 sorting out community midwife visits. GP surgery know nothing. About to ring local hospital to see if they have more of a clue. Gah! #
• 10:48 @incurablehippie I would, but he's off photographing the DAN/LCAP protest this morning! Maybe he could get some on way home ... *ponders* #
• 10:54 UCH telling me I need to get community care from Whittington, community clinic at Whittington telling me I need to go to UCH. Great! #
• 13:31 hopefully sorted now. got appointment at UCH but not until 26th (3 weeks late). ho hum. #
• 14:38 UCH randomly phoned back, @cloudwalker_3 spoke to them and told them off for making me cry, lol. Appointment now moved forward to Monday :-D #

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• 10:56 Apparently baby will be developing hearing in next couple of weeks. Wonder if I should make a playlist and play it to bump via headphones? #
• 20:34 Didn't get a seat on the tube until Camden. Everyone pretended not to notice my badge. Feel more upset about this than I probably should. #
• 21:07 @incurablehippie That's really shit :( At least with me they can tell themselves I'm just some flabby woman who's chancing it ;-) *hugs* #
• 22:47 @incurablehippie True, but buying a walking stick requires a lot more commitment than asking TfL Customer Services for a free badge does! #
• 23:20 @incurablehippie @redclaire's tweet has made me realise that I inadvertently called you flabby, sorry about that! :o/ #
• 23:22 @incurablehippie To be fair, I can barely work out what day of the week it is at the moment, diplomacy is more than my brain can manage #
• 23:24 Sudden craving for a cheese and salad cream sandwich. Where did that come from? Have cheese but no bread or salad cream. #
• 23:45 @redclaire Aww, no way! *sulks* That roaring noise you just heard was my tummy rumbling, by the way #

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• 17:49 Just been invited to party at Mahiki. Expect to see me in thelondonpaper next Mon falling onto pavement outside with a member of Girls Aloud #
• 17:58 Baby now has pram (ordered today) somewhere to sleep and some clothes, and it won't even be here til Aug. Feeling quite organised for once! #
• 19:12 @redclaire Mahiki is a hawaiian-themed bar in central London, it is a favourite of b-list celebs and the paps #
• 19:21 @redclaire tinyurl.com/bm27nh #

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about 2 weeks ago, wish advertised 2 jobs in the guardian. to minimise the amount of time taken sending out application packs (we've had more than 200 requests in the past 2 weeks) i set up an auto-response system on outlook express, the idea being that people e-mail the jobs address with the job reference number in the subject line and oe automatically sends back an e-mail with all the relevant attachments.

i've tested this system myself using outlook express, thunderbird and mac mail and as far as i can see, it works fine. however, about 20% of people are e-mailing back to say that they can only see the covering letter (which is in the body of the e-mail) but none of the attachments, which is obviously requiring more time to send the pack out manually. are they being daft or is there a problem with the system that i haven't considered? is there a better way to do this that i haven't thought of?

have left this public in case you want to point a techy person who's not on my f-list to this post. thanks!

bumping this entry up because he still needs 44 supporters to go through to the next stage.

basically, please go here and leave a message saying "i support this nomination". i am very biased of course, but he takes this kind of thing seriously & i think he'd be really good at it :o) so, if you haven't already, please take a minute to read his post & comment to say you support his nomination. thanks!

i need a quick, easy (and preferably free) way of getting a simple but clean/professional-looking website up and running.

it's for a campaign i'm running at work - it just needs to have a few pages for text, links & a bit where people can download campaign materials.

can anyone recommend software/something else that would help me with this? i'm running windows xp on my work computer if that makes a difference.

Tags: work
Current Location: se1 9qg
current mood: productive
current music: bbc 6music

i'm trying to fill out the relevant forms to get my bastard tenants (who haven't paid me a penny in rent since they moved in over 2 months ago) evicted from my house in birmingham.

there's a section on the form (n119) that says:

Forfeiture

9. (a) There is no underlessee or mortgagee entitled to claim relief against forfeiture

or (b) [Blank] of [Blank] is entitled to claim relief against forfeiture as underlessee or mortgagee.

i know i need to fill in part (b) because i have a mortgage - is the first blank the name of who i've got my mortgage with and the second blank their address? or something else?

the supposedly explanatory notes for this form have confused me further. they say:

(b) If there is, give that person's name and address and file, in court, an additional copy of the particulars of claim for service on that person.

eh?

can anyone help? as you can imagine, with my tenants owing me rather a lot of money i don't exactly have the funds to go and consult a solicitor, so any assistance is much appreciated!

Tags: stupidity
current mood: confused

i'm trying to create a database for work to catalogue our resource library.

i'm using OpenOffice Base (we can't afford to buy a copy of Access or anything else for that matter, and the only other option is Microsoft Works Database which I don't think will do what I want it to)

so far i've created a table with the fields:
ID
Title
Author
Publisher
Year
Categories

what i want to do is have a drop-down box so that when our volunteers do the data entry, they can select the categories from a list.

i gather what i need to do is create another table called categories and do a list of the categories & assign them each a number, then create a relationship between the 2 tables. is this correct?

do i then need to create a form for inputting the data?

any help would be appreciated - it's been a long time since i've had to do anything this complicated with a database and i'm all confuzzled!

have left this entry public in case you can't help personally but know someone who might be able to.

Tags: work
current mood: confused

just shout if you want any of these things. local pick ups from london or birmingham preferred, but can also post things. donations to mind appreciated if you take anything.

( pics and descriptions under cut )

Tags: clear out 2007

cloudwalker_3 and i have just got back from our weekend away in the tipi and we had an absolutely *amazing* time! the tipi itself was wonderful, really cosy and lovely, the woman who runs the site was really helpful and the scenery around the place was absolutely beautiful.

on friday we pretty much just slumped, cooked some food (pasta & sauce with creamed rice for pud) and got the fire going. on saturday we walked up a big hill on the site and had a great view across the valley, then walked down into the village & went to the tea rooms for lunch. back up to the tipi for some chill out time and a little snooze, then back down to the village pub for a really good meal. the weather was pretty good all weekend, although predictably all of yesterday's clouds and mist had cleared by this morning, just in time for us to go home!

we enjoyed ourselves so much, that we thought for next year we'd try and get some friends together and go there again. there's information about the place we went to here and cloudwalker_3 should have some more pics of the site up on his flickr page in the next few days. so - are you interested? have left this entry public so that friends of M's who aren't on my f-list can vote too.

( poll under here )

current mood: tired

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a drug alert on 24 May 2007 about three counterfeit batches of Zyprexa (olanzapine), a neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drug prescribed for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other conditions, made by Eli Lilly.

It is believed that some of these counterfeit batches may have reached patients. There is so far no evidence of any adverse reactions specifically related to the counterfeit batches.

The batches concerned are Zyprexa (olanzapine) 10 mg tablets, with the batch numbers A229505; A200127; A216454 (or one of these numbers with a prefix or suffix). Anyone who has tablets with these batch numbers should take them to their pharmacist so that they can be returned to Eli Lilly. People with health concerns should see their GP, pharmacist or mental health team.

Please forward this onto any people or groups who you think it might be relevant to.

Tags: mental health
current mood: productive

feel free to pass this onto anyone you think might be interested ...

Speak up for Yourself!

Free Self Advocacy Training for LGBT people experiencing mental health issues or emotional distress

· Get your voice heard
· Ask for what you want
· Get what you need
· Know your rights
· Speak assertively and effectively to people
· Deal with Support Services
· This workshop will give participants strategies and techniques to ask for what they want when dealing with professionals and care providers.


Tuesdays evenings 6.00pm – 9.00pm; 19th and 26th June, 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th July at
PACE, 34 Hartham Rd, N7 9JL
Please book to secure your place on this workshop, contact
Finn on 020 7700 1323
FRaven@pace.dircon.co.uk

Tags: mental health
Current Location: clays lane

just got something through my door offering me 4 free energy saving lightbulbs - unfortunately i'm not eligible because i don't receive any benefits, but thought there might be some on my f-list who might be able to take advantage of this.

you can claim the free lightbulbs if you receive one of the following:

income support
housing benefit
council tax benefit (not including single occupancy reduction)
income based jobseeker's allowance
attendance allowance
disability allowance
industrial injuries disablement pension benefit
war disablement pension
pension credit
child tax credit (where your income is £14,600 or less)
working tax credit (where your income is £14,600 or less)

you have to ring 0844 8000 444 and quote reference RF-B18VM, feel free to pass this on to others.

Tags: freebies
current mood: sore

i got a few promo CDs following a work visit to kerrang radio a couple of months ago. they've been sitting in my hallway gathering dust since then and i'd rather they went to an appreciative home, so if you want one or more of them then please comment! a small donation to mind in return for postage & packaging costs would be nice :o) left open in case you know anyone not on my f-list who might be interested.

( list of cds under here )

Tags: freebies
current mood: awake