Our local post office is closing at the end of July. There are four others in a six mile radius but only one of those is walking distance away and that's only small. The post office is town always has a queue - it's impossible to get in and out of there within five minutes at lunchtimes. In December the wait is about 30 minutes. So posting anything funny-sized in the future and getting dollars & euros is going to be so much more difficult since it'll involve going further and taking longer. Why someone thought that was a good post office to close, I don't know. Perhaps they're running the country a bit like NationStates and making decisions because they're funny.

I got a letter yesterday complaining that I hadn't paid my council tax bill this month. Back in March they sent through a thing to say how much I had to pay for the year and told me therefore how much I had to pay for each month. I then expected them to send me something to demand money each month. But apparently not. They only give you seven days within receipt of the letter or they'll take you to court. So it was just as well it turned up before I went to Romania then. I have now set up my bank account online to pay it on the first of each month till January (for some strange reason you only pay council tax for ninth months of the year). The only other way of doing it is by direct debit and I object to having money taken out of my account without me doing something to make that happen.

I could tell it was quite hot today because when I got up the house wasn't freezing. Which is a good thing as it shouldn't get too hot in the summer therefore. But I did have to open some windows when I got in. It took me ten minutes to manage two. Whoever thought that was a good window design was mistaken.

Whatever temperature it is here it looks like it's going to be ten degrees hotter in Europe. Lovely. So looking forward to that, especially given that I don't like the heat. At least coming home will feel nice and cool.

I suddenly realised the other day that the reason I've been having asthma for no reason might be because my inhaler has run out. And it had. I wish there was some way of knowing other than waiting till the neighbours are quiet, holding it up to my ear and shaking it.

Sainsburys don't seem to understand what a pink grapefruit is. It's the second time now I've bought some from there. When you cut them open they're a yellow colour. They don't taste as horrid as yellow but don't taste as nice as pink either. I will have to make sure to always get them from Tescos in the future.

Work is busy at the moment. I am completely brain dead from it and the sun waking me up in the morning (it's been raining so long I've got used to it being quite dark in the mornings).

LJ's tag system that means if you type it in the box it'll randomly delete it for you. I am definitely refusing to do that in the future. Editing the entry afterwards and selecting the tags from a list is a far better option and I don't understand why LJ doesn't do that already.

Teaspoon randomly changing my era and character list when I update a chapter. I also hate the way its selection boxes are so small you can't read the character or genre text very well and have to guess. And when you edit a story/chapter there's no update button, it's called 'add story' which always worries me. But for all that it's miles better than ff.net. I refuse to upload my stories there any more because I lost the will to live fighting with it.