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2009: The Books I Read
I'm still keeping a record of the books I read within any given year. It caters to the OCD elements of my fractured personality :) Although I would have thought I had much more reading time (what with being unemployed for large chunks of it), I seem to have read fewer books than years past. In my defence - and it's a weak one - I did start several ( Read more... ) -
Fast Away the Old Year Passes
Haven't really done much between last we spoke and now. I went into work on Tuesday but it was so quiet that I've bunked off the other couple of days between New Years Day and Christmas. I guess the highlight was shopping for ski gear on the Monday. What an experience that was. I was thwarted in my attempt to buy lairy kit by sizing. Apparently fat ( Read more... ) -
How to Make Gravy
Having only made my frist roast meals in the last couple of years I had never made gravy until yesterday. Actually let's leave the Jury out on whether I've actually made gravy at all yet :) Staying in someone else's flat is always weird as you aren't 100% familiar with where everything is but cooking in someone else's flat is about ten times worse ( Read more... ) -
Come Dine With Me
Sunday night was a hot bed of vegetarianism as silverjet_allie, Pete and her work colleague Amy descended on the boat after a 10 mile run down the towpath. They were all madly exhausted and it almost made me feel guilty for having lollygagged about doing not much of anything for the weekend hah hah ( Read more... ) -
All Out, All Change
I was half way to the middle of nowhere on Monday when the call came offering me a week of temp work starting Tuesday. Even though I was very settled onthe week off idea, I couldn't refuse so am now stuck midway through Wednesdsay hating every moment of a boring old temp assignment ( Read more... )
