Ghosts on water.

I'm still writing much more than I'm reading and am currently at skip=800 on the friends list. Please comment with important things you may have expected me to notice.

(It's like the early nineties, when people used computers to make things on rather than as complicated televisions.)

This morning:

Me: How's Freda?
Arkady: She's awake and fine.
Me: (blows raspberry on Arkady's belly)
Arkady: Oy!
Me: (aggrieved expression) I am playing with my daughter.

Last night I went to the Dove in Hammersmith, right on the water, with webcowgirl and shadowdaddy. Hell to get to, but a lovely pub and a lovely evening. I think I woke up dead.

I am on call from Friday evening and hence trapped at home in the evenings until the following Friday morning. I expect visitors please! I'll even be able to meet people for lunches and stuff.

Cold snap hits Perth.

PERTH, Arse End Of The World, Thursday (UNN Weather, mate) — Despite global warming, an unseasonal mid-summer cold snap is afflicting the balmy coastal city of Perth, Wesssstern Australia. Wednesday started under an Extreme Cold Weather alert following a frigid twenty-four hours in the city centre, when the temperature dropped below thirty Celsius (86°F in old money) by day and as low as twenty degrees (68°F) at night.

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Big Brother accused of "classism."

THE HIGH STREET, Low-Rent, Thursday (U! News) — JJB Sport, Poundland and Cash Converters have suspended sponsorship of Celebrity Big Brother following allegations of classism toward hairdresser Jade Goody on the Channel 4 show. The companies removed their sponsorship from the current series "with immediate effect."

A record 30,000 complaints have been made over alleged classist remarks towards Goody. Three of her fellow housemates have been accused of classist behaviour, with Shilpa Shetty receiving the brunt of public criticism.

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War on Illegal Drugs working.

HELMS, South Carolina, Thursday (UNN) — The hard work of Tobacco Institute philanthropists in the War on Illegal Drugs was revealed today, when Harvard University's School of Public Health noted that the average level of nicotine from major-brand cigarettes had increased 11% between 1997 and 2005.

Manufacturers both raised the concentration of nicotine in the tobacco and made design modifications to increase the number of puffs per cigarette. The end result, say the researchers, is much more addictive cigarettes, which then keep people away from bad drugs.

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