Admittedly, the reason you wouldn’t, and the reason I haven’t so far is because I just gave all of my money to the wonderful Fabricshoppe, but this will be my next purchase, alongside some of Heidi Kenney’s fruit and veg. Seeing as I fell in love with the Paperchase Food Friends range just that second too late to actually buy any, that fabric is the next best thing.

From wikipedia:

Properties with between ten and twenty windows paid a total of four shillings, and those above twenty windows paid eight shillings.  The number of windows that incurred tax was changed to seven in 1766 and eight in 1825. The flat-rate tax was changed to a variable rate, dependent on the property value, in 1778. People who were ineligible for church or poor rates, for reasons of poverty, were exempt from the window tax.  Window tax was relatively unintrusive and easy to assess. The bigger the house, the more windows it was likely to have, and the more tax the occupants would pay. Nevertheless, the tax was unpopular, because it was seen by some as a tax on “light and air”.

The tax was imposed in Scotland in the 1780s, instantly explaining (almost) all of the buildings in Edinburgh with bricked-up windows.

Additionally, the tax is considered to be a possible origin of the phrase “daylight robbery”, though this remains unproven.

A big chunk of hairdresser income comes from selling overpriced hair product, and overpriced hair product generally has brilliant packaging in order to make people like me buy some overpriced hair product they won’t use but will gaze at lovingly.  Depending on the target market,  packaging ranges from classy to fun to, err… this:

… oh come on, it’s not just me, is it? Is it?

As of this evening, the semester is over. I’ve never wanted anything more in my life.

Should you not yet have the Wall-e DVD, which was released yesterday in the UK and which I’m not lending you because my need to stroke the cover and giggle is greater than any need you may have, you can make do with reading the screenplay.

Kangaroo mug available from sunny-style.com So far, my attempts to circumvent the Japaneseness of the checkout process have failed miserably, but I can’t even begin to tell you how much I want this. There must be a way!

Of course, much of the internet superstardom is just because they’re piggybacking on the success of another Edinburgh-based internet superstar and doing duets with him.

The petition for the creation of a Christmas megamix began, ooh, at least five minutes ago.

(Should you be interesting in playing about with wires and multimeters, would like to desert your girlfriend/boyfriend/flatmate/mundane existence every second Tuesday, and live within travelling distance of Edinburgh, you too could join Dorkbot Alba! More information is available here.)