26. At 11:00pm on 01 Sep 2010, L A Odicean wrote ( Read more... )

14 days left at work! I am now doubly keen to get out of here, as a rat appears to have died under the floorboards over the weekend, and the stench resulting is vile. I have a neutrodol pot sat by my keyboard which is overcoming the worst of it, but it's still pretty grim ( Read more... )

Also, people in the US - I gather Wonders of the Solar System has just started to be shown on TV over there. You should definitely make a point of watching it, it's fantastic.

Counting down the days until I get out of here now - work is drying up, meaning I seem to spending most of my days applying for jobs or generally horsing around on the internet. So far nothing has come up on the jobs front, but that's ok; I'm rather looking forward to a bit of time off if truth be told. We've only had three breaks in the last ( Read more... )

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Hmm, I think I'm looking forward to going home. Not that Al's parents' are ever less than 100% accommodating, but I have to say I'm missing having the space at home. It doesn't help that my horrendous couple of weeks of hayfever (the annual culmination of it where I end up wheezing like an emphysemic old man and having to pause halfway up stairs to ( Read more... )

Now just over a month away from qualification, I have to do what will hopefully be the last study/exam period of my life - the Professional Skills Course, a three week long block. I am doing this over in Bristol; back at UWE - back, in fact, in the same rooms I sat the LPC and CPE in. Which is a bit of time warp ( Read more... )

Jesus, my last update was when Ellie was born. That's now quite a while ago. Needless to say, much has changed. A potted version:

Ellie is doing well. She is the smiliest baby I have ever seen; constantly grinning from ear to ear. She's very relaxed and easy going as well. We've managed to get her sleeping from 8pm til around 5 or 6AM, which is ( Read more... )

Well, I finally have a daughter. Elliot (Ellie), born 20 January 2010 at about midday. Via a c-section, which this time I actually got observe from the other side of the curtain. It was a bit weird watching someone root around in your wife's nether regions, but fascinating nonetheless. Anyway, here we are:


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Am sat in the pub doing some work; I was in work doing some work, but there's a stench of decomposing rat coming up though the floorboards, so I took refuge here instead. I'm reading up on the Right To Buy on behalf of a client, and was amused to read this exchange from the House of Lords on the topic; welcoming a new Lord speaking for the first ( Read more... )