The Packers....

... have landed!!!

purplecthulhu's room is already stripped back and filled with boxes, and they're doing my room now!

This means I get to have a rest, which is very nice indeed - just a few gentle phone calls, chasing up the last few urgent official CoAs. Also, just pottered through the park to the shops to get some English apple juice (a.k.a. soft cider, cloudy, from apples grown and pressed in Suffolk) for G - it's very humid today, so everyone is sweating, and the movers are downing pints of water as well as cups of (Fairtrade* :-) tea and coffee.

*They've borrowed my wind-up radio to listen to as well..

(I'm having to update from G's computer, because it seems that the problems with the handling of JavaScript in Opera 5 are finally preventing me from using the LJ Web interface to update my journal any more. Time to devote some time to upgrading my Linux box... Mozilla, here we come :-)

Canadian Goverment to introduce bill to legalise gay marriage

Reported by the BBC at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2999270.stm :

"The Canadian Government is to push for the legalisation of gay
marriages following a series of critical court rulings on the subject.

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The bill is likely to face strong opposition from within Mr Chretien's
governing Liberal party and from the conservative province of
Alberta."

Thanks to overconvergent for the heads
up and the link!

(BTW I emailed the Canadian Human Rights Committee Chair, Andy Scott,
and received a rapid reply from an assistant:" I wish to thank you for
your e-mail. Please be assured that it will be brought to Mr. Scott's
attention.", which could be read a number of ways :-)