An eventful week, as drmal and myself have had a few days off.  We just chilled, hung out, went to Ikea, the usual romantic stuff.

On Thursday, we decided to spend some quality time doing touristy things in town.  drmal took me for a lovely picnic in Greenwich Park, where the romance was only enhanced by the softly falling summer rain.  We took shelter on ( Read more... )

As I am going part-time in the office (for those not aware of my career developments, I am doing teacher training part-time next year, hence going 0.5 in the office) I've been turfed out of my desk and allocated a spot around the corner.  Not that I mind - I've got a seat by the window (natural light), I'm near the kitchen (good for commandeering ( Read more... )

As I am writing this drmal is manfully struggling with the DVD-R that we have bought today.

He is quite traditional about things like this - he believes his role in life is to hunt, to gather and to be bewildered and frustrated by pieces of technical equipment.  My role, of course, is to sit here and offer support disguised as me looking up real estate ( Read more... )

Well, that's that then for the garden flat.

drmal and I went back today, ostensibly to check out the structural problems picked up by the surveyor, but also to see whether it was big enough to take us, our stuff and, most importantly, our sofas. Having only seen the flat through the medium of estate agents photographs for three months had given me fake ( Read more... )

...but I suppose it was inevitable, really. Don't expect this to be deep or even interesting, but there it is ( Read more... )