G'dammnit. Steve has bought my assertion that when the music says "Allegro" you have to sing with a German accent, but doesn't seem to buy it that "accelerando" means you have to do as many different impressions of famous singers as you can in 2 minutes.

Oh, I am a most happy girl :) I've been wanting a piano for years.


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Steve tells me the kitten has been picked up by her owner.

Found a young recently spayed tabby cat that was very nearly run over on Fishergate/Fulford Road. She seemed to be lost & upset & following us, and has no collar so we have brought her home for the night & will take her to Tower Vets first thing in the morning. I'm hoping she is chipped so that her owners can be tracked down quickly. Steve has gone ( Read more... )

 God, I'm hungry. The smells of roast chicken are gently wafting up the stairs :)

I have received a joke email entitled: "Who said Footballer's weren't intelligent?"

Spot the obvious.

 I have discovered something I dislike considerably more than cooking ... wallpapering. However, my room is now nice and black if slightly lumpy in places. The wallpaper is here http://www.lauraashley.com/Charcoals+Greys/WILTON-WALLPAPER/invt/3358855 although I obtained it for £4-£5 a roll rather than the rather horrendous £26.

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 I have bought myself a cookery book & am going to try to cook some stuff today. I figure it really is a bit pathetic to leave all the cooking to Steve. It's not that I can't cook but I've always shied away from it. I don't generally like doing traditionally girl oriented stuff - partly because I grew up in a pretty sexist environment, but partly ( Read more... )

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Clare + garden + not cuddling Cleo + back turned = flying leap onto Clare's back + claws = ow!
Still, she was very sweet afterwards.