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It is freaking August and I am wearing winter socks and a hoodie and I have the electric footwarmer under my desk and I need a hot water bottle in bed to stop my back from seizing up. And I'm thinking about turning on the room heater. And I already did turn on the bathroom heater while I showered.
Why is November coming in August? And why won't it ( Read more... )

Sess was so kind as to arrange a slow cooker for me (they are much more common and thus much much cheaper in the UK) and Sess's mum was kind enough to transport it to NL for me. So today I cooked slow ( Read more... )

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We had just prematurely and involuntarily left the Azores. We were shivering and bouncing our way up to England, where there was still snow on the ground.

(I miss it like hell)

I’m feeling really torn on this one. On the one hand I have absolutely no respect or tolerance for Putin and the policies in place, and the ‘No no, everything’s perfect and ready!’ shit that is so obviously not true.

On the other hand a lot of those journalist make it sound like they’re war correspondents stationed in a 3rd world country, and maybe ( Read more... )

I am doing the follow-up instruction course at the moment (it isn't really advanced as most people there just finished the beginners course). I've had some good advice I'm working on and I asked my instructor to film so I could see my stance ( Read more... )

Ship is doing an 8-day Liverpool-Harlingen delivery end of June that looks good (needs one cheapish flight, a train home, and Harlingen is the starting point of the races this year, which should be good ( Read more... )

Joined my mother for her volunteer session at the nursing home this morning. It's at the closed care section, where my nana lived the last year of her life, and most residents are in various stages of 'with it' and lucidity ( Read more... )

Gone back to the longbow (not my own yet, the borrowed one) because the 2nd round of the club competition is on the 14th and I want to do all of them with longbow ( Read more... )