och ai the news

you might have noticed if you've been paying attention that i've got a new job. there are lots of reasons why this is a good thing. one is having the radio on all days. it's meant i get to hear a lot of new exciting music, like the fantastic new futureheads song. but, so they say, every silver lining has a cloud and the one thing about radio 1 is that they like the news. for the end of last week they were busy panicing everybody in scotland by telling them not to panic-buy petrol. what seemed like every half hour if not more often. they had someone driving around seeing if they could get petrol anywhere - presumably wasting a large amount of petrol i the process. the real brucie bonus was the interviews they were doing with the poor panic stricken scotsfolk about how they're gonna cope. at least i presume that's what they were talking about because frankly they might have well have asked someone from outer mongolia for all i could understand of it. hmmm... bit daily mail? sorry. someone was telling me how much they love the scottish accent, and i have to admit that with the right one, i'd have a certain weakness myself. but there were straight out of braveheart or something.

now here's the sun, it's alright

this morning was incredibly rubbish getting in to work – made worse by the weather, those horrible little brats being back at school and whichever muppet is in charge of the road works in south wimbledon. but looking out the window now it looks ace. maybe we're on our way to summer? maybe this is the best we'll get til next year? who knows? it definitely feels like it won't be long til its time to while the evenings away sitting outside a pub, preferably by a river somewhere. and as if that wasn't summery enough, and ice cream van's just pulled up outside work so we've all be treated to a 99 each. yum yum!

filling the silence

it's been ages since i've written in here, sorry about that. the whole, post a picture every day on the moblog sort of evaporated after a month or so too. i'm such a slacker. anyway, we're now almost a third of the way into the year. where's that gone? search me. i started a new job last week, so that's exciting. the schools went back this morning, which is less so. my journey in's more than doubled which is a biatch. ho hum. the chances of finding a job i want to do on my doorstep is pretty slim so it's sitting in traffic or cramming onto the tube. have switched from a church to a barn - the contents remaining much the same though. more creative i think so feeling a bit fired up with ideas flying around my brain at the moment. they don't seem to be able to escape onto the page/screen/wherever at the moment though which is a pity. been a bit under the weather though so that's been holding me back. obviously. i could break through the ceiling, if i just turned and ran. it's the turning and running part that's difficult. still, lots going on - which is better than nothing. i think. what else have i been up to? saw radiohead playing in a tiny little room - smaller than where we used to have assembly at school. one of the best hours of my life, without a doubt. is that bad? i don't think so. saw björk as well, who was also fantastic, but there were a few more people at that one. money sucks at the moment. switching between jobs probably means emergency tax. which isn't good. had to shell out for a new car stereo soon because mine seemed to become possessed and turn itself on at full volume whenever it fancied it. another change for the better though. at least now i can play cds straight away - and mp3tastic ones at that! you may have noticed that this is one of those slightly rambling blogs where i don't have much to say but feel i need to fill the silence. let's not go into the larger resonance of that statement. maybe there'll be something of significance to write about soon. maybe there won't.