Hoping we have a storm and various stuffs

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It's so CLOSE, I can hardly breathe. Humid and airless and hot. Yuk. It's just started to rain a little bit - which hopefully will do something to alleviate matters.

My dad's gardener "Bob The Gardener" has just dumped us, and I'm a bit annoyed about it, tbh. Didn't even have the courtesy to ring or call round, but left a hand delivered letter saying that he didn't have enough to keep him busy for 2 hours a fortnight(!!). Well, it's not THAT well-maintained, let me tell you! I can see weeds from where I sit now. Finding another gardener mid-season? Good luck.

What makes me paranoid is that on his last visit, he heard me talking to dad about writing, and asked me what I wrote and of course I told him. Possibly he looked me up and decided he didn't want to be tainted with the gay in case it rubbed off. If so, then cheers.

I've imported all my posts and comments etc from Livejournal. Don't know how useful that is, but I suppose it's nice to have a back up, it's been so many years, I suppose I'd like to keep the entries.

Cannot get connected for some reason – two days now. Whether that's because it's the school hols and the people who share their networks aren't around, or what, I don't know. But instead I have been writing. Hurrah!  I really really need to get I Knew Him finished by end of August, and I think that's doable, IF – big IF – I put the work in.

I'll be getting edits for Junction X AND the novel previously known as Chiaroscuro soon, so I need to get finished.

Torchwood was excellent. I'm really enjoying it. I think the people who don't like it aren't used to a long story line. It used to be Monsters Arrive—TW deals with it—end of story, but this is stretching out and I'm loving the ride, the character building etc. I DON't like Esther. At All but she'll probably be Neville in the end.

Sirens has finished. Sob. I love that show. More please and fast!  It's based on a book, so don't know if it will be continuing, but hoping so. They've left enough up in the air to do it.

True Blood was all a bit patchy, trying to cover too many bases at once and not really progressing much at all. Not that I'm a nakedness freak, I don't mind gratuitious nakedness (under a CUT on LJ  Though…) so why has TB (which used to have a LOT of it) gone all coy? Everyone makes love with all their clothes on now?  One thing that makes me laugh about American TV – apparently all the women leave their bras on during sex.

Yeah, right, as if its not the second item that men remove.

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[essayel]

Writing, yay!

Gardeners can be bloody annoying people. My mum is on her 8th. They come regularly for the first six months or so, then gradually tail off. I think part of the problem is that, at first, they can say *sharp intake of breath* "who was the cowboy who did this? Oh dearie me you were taken for a ride missus. leave it to me, I'll put it right" but after a bit they are just ticking over doing a bit of weeding and mowing the lawns. Boring stuff where they don't get the extra tips.

I'm kind of enjoying TW but Esther is bland and Rex is so arrogant I find him more annoying than entertaining. The continuing story is better than the Monsters of the Week, though.