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People are slow to leave it, quick to return. And there are others who come, as they think, for a year or two, and stay a lifetime, sensing that they have found a city that is in the world, yet sufficiently on the edge of it to have a different resonance.
From Philip Larkin's foreword to A Rumoured City: New Poets from HullI came to Hull because ( Read more... )

Our tea is in the oven...

Emma: How long left on the half hour timer?
Guido: I don't know. I didn't set one.
Emma: I asked you to set one.
Guido: Oh. *Gets phone out to set timer*
Emma: There's no point now! I asked you to set it over half an hour ago.
Guido: Oh.

Fortunately I had put it in the oven slightly later than I thought, so our ( Read more... )

Apparently it is, was, National Poetry Day today. I've talked about my favourite poem before so I'll not repeat that.

In that old entry I touched briefly on something:
I hated Larkin (MCMXIV aside), but have come to appreciate him a little more since.
( My thoughts on Philip Larkin, let me show you them. )

I was woken this morning by a phone call from edf trying to get me to change gas/electricity supplier from our current one (Utility Warehouse). Which wasn't going to happen because a) we're exceedingly happy with them 2) we specifically don't want to be customers of the Big Six γ) if we wanted to switch, we would do our research and certainly ( Read more... )

We have 46kg checked luggage allowance. That's more than a kilo for every hour we're spending in Germany ( Read more... )

Thanks to all the leave being used for the wedding and honeymoon, we have no time off between the middle of July and Christmas. (Well, one day for Guido's birthday - handily that's a Friday ( Read more... )

The last two days I've had a really bad eye twitch. I don't really remember suffering from them before, not in any particular quantity anyway. But both days it's been really bad - particularly whilst we've been on air. (Or it could just be that it's more noticeable then as it's really very inconvenient ( Read more... )

We are home and we are safe. We've had an amazing time and I really do want to write about it at some point (plus, you know, the wedding...) I know I'm pretty rubbish about writing in here these days (see also, the bit where I never actually mentioned that we moved house 16 months ago) but I really, really do want to preserve some memories on ( Read more... )

Brb, going to Finland. And Russia. And Lithuania. And Latvia. And Estonia.

Whee!