I'm writing from an internet cafe in Colmbo ( Read more... )

...which means I'd probably better finish my breakfast coffee, PACK, get dressed, go get my bird's nest of a head trimmed, zip back home for a shower, sort out a few last things at work for my substitute teachers, buy adapter plugs, get money out of the bank, have some lunch and...go ( Read more... )

So my Ma sent us a game of Upwords for Christmas. For those of you not in the know, it's basically 3D Scrabble ( Read more... )

Despite the fact that my damned body has pulled its usual trick of getting sick the second I go on holiday (and the fact that I'm praying desperately that it sorts itself out before we get on a plane next Tuesday), I'm sitting in the living room with Àdrià putting his new skateboard together and Florenci and Helena dancing around the room to one of ( Read more... )

Tonight we went to Barcelona, to see the Soweto Gospel Choir.
They rocked the Casbah!...er...the Palau del la Música Catalana!

Nothing I can write here will do justice to the experience so I'm not even going to try. If they ever come to your town, I'd advise you to go and see them.

Best version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight ever ( Read more... )

However, given the area we're going to, the length of time we'll be there and the circumstances in which we'll be sleeping, eating etc, we were told that we only required shots for Typhoid Fever and Hepatitis A (which I may or may not have had already but the doctor said better safe than sorry, as having it again won't hurt ( Read more... )

First of all, when the guys were in here fixing up the kitchen and bathroom, they came across a leak in the unit controlling the water coming into the house. We gave them the go ahead to fix that as well and while they were doing that, they had a couple of 'mop up' moments, where there was a bit of flooding ( Read more... )

We spent the entire week, up until yesterday, at Florenci's mum's house, while plumbers and builders smashed up stuff in our kitchen and bathroom ( Read more... )

It doesn't seem as though I should be but I am.
In fact, I've been feeling pretty exhausted for the last two or so weeks.
Not quite sure what's going on there.

Anyway...
(Yeah, bullet points again. Sorry)

* Foundation has proved to be somewhat disappointing. It feels rushed and the characters are never developed. In fact, more than anything, it ( Read more... )

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