Steady employment!! Brill news Yup, still doing the cat stuff. Rehomed lots of moggies over the course of the year, we are quite pleased with ourselves

Yup, I'm actually looking for something better now, I'm cutting my days to two soon rather than the five/six I'm on at the moment (christmas and all) to go back to college next year

I'm actually hoping to get another cat soon. I'm kind of torn between getting a kitten as I usually have had older cats in the past, and I've never had one as a baby. But at the same time I've loved all my cats that I've had and not enough people give the older cats a chance. I got my current cat when she was five, she's ten now and there's still life in the old girl yet

Kittens are best off when they have plenty of attention, leaving them unattended all day isn't really good for their socialisation and they can be very destructive. The are gorgeous but hard work! Older cats are more sedate but still have a lot of love to give. Ten's not old, I had my Rosie Bagpuss til she was nearly 19 and I know folks with cats in their twenties!!

Thoughts are with all those affected by the Glasgow crash.

Just awful.

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Merry Christmas all you fabulous folk.

10am till 10:30pm. Double time. Buzzing for the payday!

Happy christmas everyone

It's a shame that no UK food channel is showing any of Donal Skehan's shows anymore.

No idea who he is, but doesn't he look nice in a hat?

Doesn't he just.

BTW, he was RoI's Eurovision entrant in '08. Now he's a TV chef and presenter.

Eurovision wasn't cool to me back then. I decided it was cool in 2012. When I first watched it.

2012 was the best so far in my opinion. It had Loreen who's song I still listen to (and would actually happily play in public), there was also a shouty Albanian chick I liked along with an obscure Danish entry that only I seemed to like

Oh yes Donal is rather adorable!

Love Eurovision! 2012 was a good year, Euphoria is such a tune. And Albania's act was brilliant, her shouting/screaming/whatever you want to call it was superb!

The question is will the UK ever win again? Hmm.

If Bonnie can't who can?

I wouldn't say 'never', after all I doubt many would have said that Austria was going to trounce the opposition - even when it was favourite going into the show. Political voting still plays a part, but the song still has to rise above it (if you pardon the pun!). If Conchita was singing Jemini's Cry Baby, then she's probably have ended up with the same amount of points as them.

Trouble is, with such a huge amount of entrants, its hard to be heard above them all. You've really got to stand out. Our '14 song was good enough, and I was surprised as to where it finished, but in another year, it could have placed higher.

Hi Guys n Gals

First venture into this thread as I heard a good piece on the radio overnight that may be of interest to some of you

It was on Up all Night on Radio 5 at around 2.30am (about 1hour 35 minutes in)

A special report on the Gay wing of a prison in LA (I think)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vjkmx

Well worth a listen

Happy new Year

Interesting listen, thanks for sharing!

I unintentionally LOL'ed at the colour coding system, dark blue for the heterosexual wing and baby blue for the homosexual wing

Had a shite time tonight. I'm seething that it sucked as much as it did

What's up BB?

I was supposed to go to the Irn Bru Carnival (it's basically an indoor glorified fair on a big scale) with some of my friends. Two pulled out before we got there so there was only three of us. Unsurprisingly the queue to get in is jumping, so we collectively decided to go elsewhere. We argued, in public I might add for about half an hour over what we were going to do. We went to Frankie And Benny's, ate whilst still arguing over where to go. I wanted to go drunk bowling, the other two were determined to go and see the new Hobbit film, which is fine if you've actually followed the films and I haven't. I told them to go on without me, seeing as the day's been shit so far, I'd rather just go home, they were adamant on not going in order to please me despite the fact I tried my hardest to convince them that I was perfectly happy to call it a day. (because who doesn't have a shit night every once and a while?)

But they were determined to keep this disastrous night alive, so we went to the only pub in Glasgow that didn't appear to be jumping, had a couple of drinks along with another long, awkward pause of silence, and somehow I was convinced to see this film which turned out pretty decent but not amazing seeing as I couldn't follow any of the witty in-jokes that the die hard fans were chuckling away at.

Finally after that we called it a night and I proceeded to take the longest bus journey home at 10-ish. And it was full of screaming drunk underaged teens. Such fun.

I'm taking a month's break from the two particular friends I was out with. Sometimes you see people far too often

Nothing worse than a flop night! I think not seeing them for a while is a good idea.

I'm in a similar situation. I went home for the Christmas holidays from uni and I feel like I've drifted from so many people in the time I've been away. (I haven't been home since early September). I still have my closer friends which is great but it's still a shame. I spent NYE with some of them and didn't have a great time at all, though I was ill and I never care for New Years anyway!

It's just worried me because I have an amazing social life at uni, but if I end up having to move home after I graduate I'm scared of being really lonely. I'm keeping away from my home town even if it kills me.

That last sentence is something you and I have in common. My older friends are like my dirty secret almost, I'd never introduce my newer friends to most of them. The friends I went out with last night were two of my friends from college who are actually my closest friends. My friends closer to home don't know a lot of things that my college friends do know, and the idea of them being my closest friends is scary. No offense to them but they're more like convenient friends, which makes me sound like a complete ****** I know, but we all have a few friends who you're not that close to, but they are always there when your best friends aren't, don't we? When I hang out with friends closer to home I'm always desperate to do something outside of our home town too, and it creates a constant rift because they don't have a problem with where we live (they can't grasp the fact that an area is only as good as the people who occupy it) and I'm sure they secretly think I'm stuck up.

Congratulations are in order for Stephen Fry and Elliott Spencer.

So I'm back from a weeks ban, what's new for me, well, I'm 23 weeks clean and sober, I'm leaving my St Albans store and moving to Stoke Newington convenience, which will be a lot closer for me, and I'm back at the flat after Christmas/New Years.

Still on the happy pills, but I suppose I'll be on them for a while, oh also, this year I move to Vancouver, in August, which is a bit exciting.

Congratulations on 23 weeks, keep going!

And Vancouver? What permanent? Well done! I hear its a beautiful place.

Absolutely, and I don't care for people making a fuss over the age gap. So what, they're happy!

Great news Jase, keep it up, I don't want to hear of any relapses or I'll come throttle you myself!

Vancouver eh? get you, I'm quite jealous. Canada's like the best of both worlds from the US and the UK without all the lame parts thrown in. I hope things fall into place for you I really do

I would like it to be permanently, but I'm not ruling anything out.


Thanks!

I've always admired the country, and an opportunity came up to do something I really strongly believe in over there, which I can't mention too much about yet, but yeah, I'll definitely share at some point .