no, virgin media is fibre optic.. not through the phoneline... which was put in by cabletel anyway.
i'm here.. i think... hopefully this is it. how have you been?
Yup here I am 
Swansea, have I ever told you. ..meh.. tis not that exciting 
swansea?
Yes, thats were I live - in the quite posh sounding Maritime Quarter of Swansea. Its a nice Georgian building divided into 50 flats.Well quite nice apart from the nutter next door who was removed [sectioned] and then returned.. I try to feel sympathy for her, but she has a habit of stamping on the floor in the early hours - patience has a limit!
sounds lovely, i have images of stately manors in austen adaptations. shame about the neighbour. 
i live in a victorian tennement... i like it, bu posh reference books refer to them as slums (as late as the 1980s... cheers people.)
It is quite a beautiful building [ posher on the outside than it is on the inside lol ], its grade 2 listed apparently.
Mind you, the victorians also built beautiful buildings - I bet your place is more attractive than modern apartments, no? 
yes, insides have to be touched up every so often sadly. we lost the frilly bits on the ceilings when we got renovated, ceilings got lowered. that said, still pretty high... i always feel like ducking when i'm in someone's titchy new build.
my tenement hasn't got many frilly bits on the outside either, most do. partick has some pretty ones.
the city centre is amazing though. always go shopping with my head held high... it's all up above the ground floor.
Glasgow is pretty... beautiful and historic and apparently ...its used for American film shoots.... no-one uses Swansea ... your neighbourhood wins
it has it's moments. my particular neighbourhood has the fossil grove, scotstoun stadium (this area will be chock-a-block during the commonwealth games) and an old victorian trainline - turned cyclepath (although, that's mostly on fire these days.)
sadly this area is mainly known for purposely set fires... cyclepath, cars the old garage that used to be round the back of my house (seriously, fire service was out to it nine different days during a summer holiday, one of those days three times.).
How strange... about ten years ago I lived in Bradford [ my then boyfriend was doing optometry there ]. It was really plagued by arson fires... could never figure out why ???
Happy Halloween Hitch 
happy halloween to you too!
*runs about shouting 'whooooo!'*
"May your slice of apple cake have the coin in it* 
Happy Halloween Hitch ! Will you be wearing wings or horns this year?
I'm off to carve the pumpkin.... oh god its a bit tough... I sliced it open with the knife allright -ish ? 
but I broke the spoon in it carving it out. Hows yours going ?
apple cake?
probably wings and my neville longbottom wand... pretend to be an eniripsa. *nods*
oh.. i thought they were meant to be easier than turnips?
don't do pumpkins or turnips. will do cards and "spells". *nods*
My Aunty used to bake apple cakes with a coin or a ring in it at Halloween. Guess its just our family does it. Pumpkins are easier, but it was a cheap spoon lol. I couldn't get it to look scary, more smiley.
Hope you'd a good Halloween.
must be a regional thing. like how we say guising and no one else seems to. (keep correcting the kids at work... not very polite of me. 
). anyway, apples are traditional in general.
get many guisers? we had 10.
i'd like to try carving a pumpkin... but it seems an awful waste of food since i'm not going to eat any of it.
one poor lassie came into school today giving away her halloween hoard, bacon flavour crisps and gelatine based sweets... she's muslim.
had a good night. even if i did spend most of it watching the decidedly unscary louis theroux and steve backshall. how's about you?
I was quite tired and went to bed a bit early. I've never had "guisers" call here, as its mostly singles and retired people.
I still have some candles etc left over so I've lit them tonight. [ Oh well its still Samhain, the true Celtic celebration] and even better the Mexican Dia de los Muertos falls today.
How did your *spells* go ?
didn't do any... cards were interesting, normally get mostly minor cards (meaning you can change things), but last night was major after major... so much for free will. 
i was wondering when dia de los muertos fell.. i knew it wasn't long after halloween, but i'm crap at dates.
Its 1st Nov for children, and today for adults [ i.e. departed souls ].
Do you mean tarot cards Hitch?
ah ok. i should really take note of that. *nods*
yeah, tarot... did i ever tell you i used to moderate irc chat for a couple of spiritualist/psychic websites?
i was better at the "/kick joebloggs90 (for being a prat)" side.