After hunting high and low, my parents have finally found and booked themselves a Christmas holiday. This they tell me at about 11pm on Friday. They also land the bombshell that we will be having our family gift giving/face stuffing sesh on Sunday night. It also became clear that muggins here would be catering. So have spent the whole of ( Read more... )

Total big yays for breaking up, though doesn't quite feel real yet, am fully looking forwards to sleeping till my body wakes me up and not the annoying beep of the alarm clock ( Read more... )

..It's all a lie and I feel cheated and disillusioned and I shall now stick to my dvd box sets ( Read more... )

Hmm, am back at that time of year when I remind myself that the Christmas that is celebrated round England has nothing whatsoever to do with the birth of Jesus and is all to do with materialism, glitz and sparkle, so...as a good Jewish girl I have bought myself a 5ft black tree and a box of 53 blood red decorations to go on it, now if the builders ( Read more... )

OK, so promised a proper post, and now I sit down to write it I realise there’s not that much to say! Past few weeks have been totally spaced out, with Pop’s illness and work and everything else I’ve been a proper hermit and feel like the time’s just floated past me while I sat in limbo. I’m just pleased to be out the other side ( Read more... )

Am home, finally, shattered after 6 days of sadness, quite a lot of good reminiscing and a few earth shattering revelations about my crazed family. Am way due a total proper update, but am off to the great land of nod with my current wicked read (The Historian - brilliant. Promise to write a proper entry soon ( Read more... )

Have not been Chief Slack Pants, have had no net connection, so this is the first chance I have had to reply ( Read more... )

...back to work tomorrow...booo
Lovely week off with lots of food and shopping oriented activities. Bank balance and waist-line suitably blown.

Got super new clothes and red onion coloured hair and the best ever hair-clips thanks to angel_emma (yay first ever code thingy worked, must learn more...) can't wait to wear them to school. Black and white polka ( Read more... )

IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST ( Read more... )

The Hoff was at Brent X. I had forgotten but my good friends at the shopping centre emailed me to remind me. I had to go to take back a skirt, what an amazing coincidence! Here are the terrible photos. V blurred (clearly I was far too excited and couldn't stop shaking). Actually worried that I was more excited at KITT than Dave (but Broomfield ( Read more... )