I don't think I've ever felt truly homesick for Austria since I moved to the UK. I've certainly missed certain people and things, but that was more a case of wishing that I had the convenience of being near/having access to them rather than truly wishing that I was somewhere else. I suppose that, strictly speaking, what I feel right now is the same ( Read more... )

Mark has been complaining that he doesn't want to read about my bad back anymore every time he checks for new posts here. To be fair, it has been over a month. So I thought I'd publish this post, which I'd already partially pre-written, about the things I've been reading for the last couple of months ( Read more... )

It's not that unusual for some of my muscles to feel a little sore upon waking up if I slept in a not particularly comfortable position somehow. Usually this goes away quickly though ( Read more... )

I visited my Mum last week, without Mark this time. (He was still working; after this week he gets six weeks off from school. Grrr, teachers.)

Stuff I did during my week-long holiday, mostly from the travelogue I kept on my USB stick:

( Cut for a bit of length, though not very much. )

Last Saturday Mark's brother James and his long-time girlfriend Nienke got married. Mark and I attended of course, though we felt a bit like party poopers, arrivingly only shortly before the ceremony and leaving immediately after the wedding breakfast. Sadly we were somewhat limited by only having the one day to dedicate to the wedding, which meant ( Read more... )

I was looking over Mark's shoulder while he was reading something on his Kindle and the very first sentence on the page included the phrase "the zombies on the sex tape ( Read more... )

I've kind of been meaning to write about work and how I've become a lot more confident in my role recently. Now I have a completely different reason to write though ( Read more... )

I'm super excited, even though it was "only" the local election, not the general one (since I'm not a British citizen and may well never be, seeing how Austria doesn't allow dual citizenship). It also feels vaguely appropriate that I'm posting this almost exactly a year after my post about never having voted in the UK (and why)It helped that one of ( Read more... )

Today someone came by to take readings for an Energy Performance Certificate, something that the landlord/letting agency had apparently failed to acquire previously ( Read more... )

Once again it's been a month since I last posted ( Read more... )