In fairness, Zio, she probably spent an awful lot of emotional energy writing it, so, y'know. Stick it in a drawer and come back to it in 18 months time.

Stick it in a drawer and forget about it, would probably be better.

On an entirely unrelated note (I don't want to post twice) has anybody heard anything about L'il Mr Christmas's wellbeing? MrC has been missing since posting that his son was due a stay in hospital...

Still fairly poorly, still not sure what's up with him, unfortunately.

Little bit of a blog time:
- Went to see NHS Clinical Psycologist for the first time today. Man is an arsehole. Told me that since I was already seeing a private counsellor (at the fucking suggestion of my GP) it would be 'unethical' for him to see me unless I ask my private counsellor to immediately remove me from her books. I told him 'no thanks then' and left.

Official prediction: Election in June 2009

"UK troops to leave Iraq 'by July'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7787103.stm

Are most squaddies labour voters, then?>

Are most squaddies labour voters, then?>

I'll do it after 26th of January-I shall celebrate my 23rd with a glass of sparkling cyanide (Agatha Christie there for you)

Cyanide is a gas, or a salt if you have it as potassium cyanide, either way it won't sparkle in a glass. You could dissolve some of the salt in a glass of champagne should you wish, but I would go for the gas myself. It smells just like marzipan, so will be all christmassy for you.

So, not after the Manchester Meet then?

You wouldn't be saying that if you'd met her.

Cyanide is a gas, or a salt if you have it as potassium cyanide, either way it won't sparkle in a glass. You could dissolve some of the salt in a glass of champagne should you wish, but I would go for the gas myself. It smells just like marzipan, so will be all christmassy for you.

On another note, I hate Christmas shopping.

You wouldn't be saying that if you'd met her.

Is this actually a real thing? It sounds terrifying, as I might have to turn up.

GET OUT OF MY BRAINS

If it helps, she's exactly the same in real life.

Cyanide is a gas, or a salt if you have it as potassium cyanide, either way it won't sparkle in a glass. You could dissolve some of the salt in a glass of champagne should you wish, but I would go for the gas myself. It smells just like marzipan, so will be all christmassy for you.

On another note, I hate Christmas shopping.

Hydrogen Cyanide, the chemical oft called Cyanide in popular mediums, has a boiling point of 26 degrees, and so is usually a highly volatile liquid rather than a gas at room temperature. (Let's ignore the fact it'd be quite hard to get your hands on HCN in the first place for Ms Christies books. We certainly only used KCN in labs)

Apparently we'll be going to Virginia City for four days, which has a population of 1,500 and is in the gold hills of Nevada, right near Lake Tahoe.

*Reads all that*

So...I was right yeah? Is that the crux of it? Please tell me I was! I've been waiting for this day

There's touristy gambling, civil war re-enactments and a hillside cemetary called 'Boot Hill'. I want so go so bad and hunt for Lee Van Cleef lookalikes.

In the 1950s, two Virginia City neighbors got into a dispute.[5] When one of the men built a new house, the other bought the lot next to it and built a house less than twelve inches (305 mm) from his neighbor's house in spite to deprive the neighbor of both view and breeze. The Virginia City Spite House still is standing and occupied.