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Hello people

Someone's Facebook post reminded me that DreamWidth was a thing and I thought 'yeah I miss seeing people's longer posts' also miss some of the people I don't Facebook with or who just don't Facebook. So HELLO here. No need to say hello back, I'll come find you x

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So it turns out there is such a thing as too much chocolate.

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Should be packing for tomorrow but busy day and only just getting around to eating dinner. I leave you all with a photo of this lovely treat I hope to have a healed-enough mouth to eat on Sunday. Although we are wondering if it might be possessed by an evil bunny spirit, perhaps the same one as that bunny from the Monty Python film... ( Cut tag to protect your delicate eyes )

Sping Cleaning

Lots of posts made private or deleted. Filters all removed. I've kept a few tags for things I quite like and still make me happy :)
There are bits of the past I'm happy to keep visible, others even I don't want to be reminded of!

My messages on LJ didn't survive the import to DW, which I'm somewhat annoyed about because some of them are/were important to me. I'll find some way to capture those that retain meaning. will delete LJ when I've got what I want from it.

Still going to post publicly until I've located and added as many of my people as wish to be located and added.

Got to make some new icons because I don't want it to look like I'm pretending I'm in my 30s.

Pete says tidying up and organising takes time and energy because you have to look through things and decide whether you want them. So true! Have I ever regretted things I've thrown away? YES! ...and in some cases I've tried to get them back and thank you, Amazon UK.

Link to my Wordpress blog isn't working, which is bollocks.

Goodnight people who are still awake!

Love to people xxx

This is not an LJ post

Hello people!

I'll be abandoning/deleting* my LJ once I've grabbed all I need from it and spoken to a few people who aren't here and aren't on FB to work out ways we can still keep in touch. I was hardly ever on LJ anyway lately but, like others have suggested, an exodus to DW might get us back into using this sort of format again.
(*Leaving it open with no posts in apart from one photoshopped image of Putin in rainbow speedos is still an option)

I've made this post public since I'm still working on how to add people so feel free to comment.
I rarely post anything public so, y'know, just don't be a knob.

I'm about to go (back) to sleep now so I leave you with Gabor Maté talking about how how mental distress and pathology are mainly a consequence of our modern materialistic, consumption-driven, soul-sucking culture - although I notice in the background of his video that he does have some lovely home furnishings so, if you like your lamps and your bits (as opposed to being like me and not giving much of a fuck), you're in good company!

I can't remember how to embed - oo er missus etc.!

Love to people xxx

Friends list 'tidying' for 2012

I dislike using the word 'cull' in relation to my friends list; I've no intention of going round bopping people on the head and then taking them home to make into coats. 'Tidying' is a much nicer term.

I've removed from my friends list anyone who hasn't posted since 2010/the beginning of time/ever and who additionally didn't answer a poll I posted in order to find out who was still reading. In this removal I included even a journal of my own that I hadn't updated for years. If I've taken off, in error, any of you who were still reading my LJ then please answer the poll below.

To avoid confusion, please only answer if I have actually removed you from my friends list!

(You can tick the answer that says 'I like ticking boxes' instead because that's one of the things it's there for)

[Poll #1807323]

This post will possibly also be of use to any persons who have me on their friends list at the moment but who don't wish me to be on it and just haven't noticed my name still there. Hello! *waves*

ETA: Following someone ticking to ask to be put back on when they hadn't been taken off, I have made the point about please only tick the option to go back on if I have removed you from my friends list a bit more emphatic. Apologies for the extra length of this post now :)

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adopt your own virtual pet!

My LJ is friends-only apart from this public post, which is to tell you more about who I am and to invite you to fill in the poll below if you wish me to add you to my friends list. Generally, I only add people I've met and get on with or who are friends even if in some loose sense of the word, but will sometimes add people with whom I share interests.

( Who is this trishpiglet person? )

( Meme answered to bring things up to date - 18/03/2012 )

( Poll - People already on friends list do not need to fill in, but welcome to do so if bored )
Also some... ( Sanctimonious faff )

P.S. Attention would-be anonymous posters! I've had to disable anonymous posting because I was getting spammed.