If you have a spare minute the Samaritans would love your vote ...

Samaritans have been nominated to be one of the supported charities for The Lawyer Awards.  Two charities will be chosen and will be supported by the awards for three years raising over £150,000 for each charity.  The two charities are being voted on by a public vote via http://www. ( Read more... )

So since June I've read ...

14 Charlaine Harris - Dead in the Family
15 David Eagleman  - Sum: Tales from the afterlife
16 Hilary Mantel  - Wolf Hall
17 Insight Guide -  Paris
18 Norman Doidge  - The Brain that changes itself
19 Paul Hoffman -  Left Hand of God
20 Terry Pratchett  - Unseen Academicals
21 Anne Rice  - Queen of the Damned
22 Carl ( Read more... )

Saturday was my 34th festival of the year, and it was fabulous.  The London Restaurant Festival is only in it's second year but has over 800 participating restaurants.  Saturday's Gourment Odyssey event took in three popular restaurants in Shoreditch, and was hosted by Masterchef's John Torode ( Read more... )

New!boy and I had a lovely long weekend in Paris, being complete and utter tourists ( Read more... )

Whilst my 'Forty Festivals' and being with new!boy are fabulous they have taken a serious toll on my book reading time.  So far I've only read 13 books this year ( Read more... )

Friday evening K and I went for a tour at the National Gallery in Trafalagar Square.  It was very entertaining.  I'm now inspired to go back and spend longer meandering through the endless galleries and enjoying to the immense variety of paintings.

Saturday morning was a Sams shift, but in the afternoon it was warm enough for new!boy and I sit out ( Read more... )

My colleague just rang the Dell helpline for some advice only to told that they couldn't help because their servers were down ...

*giggles*

A very belated festival post here ...

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Yesterday was spent lounging and relaxing at the Nirvana Spa with new!boy.  Back on Valentine's day he bought us spa days and we decide to go midweek to avoid the crowds.

Nirvana Spa's facilities include a Surf pool (with 53 jets positioned around the pool at different angles for jacuzzi like pampering) at bath temperature with plunge pools for ( Read more... )

Last night K and I went to the first ever night safari at the Natural History Museum, it was superb.

The glorious entrance hall at the NHM was enhanced by an elegant bar, with table and chairs, under the waving tail of the gigantic Diplodocus, where we had champagne waiting for the start of the tour.

Our group started with one the scientists (there ( Read more... )