My real name is Linda, but these days it seems more like Linda is the name I use when I don't want people knowing my real name. Please call me Mina!

I am a Dog Walker in Brentwood, Essex. You can follow my progress on my Diary of a Dog Walker blog, or that of my own dogs on Fred's blog - A Dog Named Fred.

I am usually to be found hiding from my Stuff to Do pile - a ridiculous number of my journals are me trying to talk myself into Dealing with The Stuff. Having had a good sort out, I now have Regular Stuff to Do Regularly, and the less important Interesting Stuff I'd like to Do when the RStDR is gone which Let's Face It May Never Happen.

A short h2g2 history. I joined h2g2 in Sept 99, and promptly forgot about it for 6 months. When I rediscovered it, I moved in, made friends who I got very drunk with as often as possible but never as often as I would have liked, then bothered the staff for a job, which lasted not quite two years. I came back as a 'normal' Researcher and just got generally Very Angry about Things Not Being Done Right and drove all my friends away. I took a step back (occasionally leaning forward to see if h2g2 still Made me Angry) for a while. Recently I seem to have lost all that Angryness that was making me so unhappy, and probably everyone around me as well, so I'm making a comeback (although I did get quite snippy with someone recently, that wasn't about h2g2 itself so I am Not Too Worried at the moment).

Please bear with my while I rebuild my PS.