Is there anything more nerve-wracking than coming home to find a fire engine outside your house and firemen loitering in your driveway?

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Except it wasn't a full-on emergency vehicle, it was doing a fire safety check on a house down the road. Good job I've got low blood pressure.

Morning darlings ( Read more... )

Just remembered the dream I had last night:

I had bought a Christmas present for drpete (unspecified) and hidden it in the oven because he'd come home earlier than expected. I then forgot it was there and put some dinner in the oven to cook, obviously cooking the present too ( Read more... )

Went out to My Old Dutch last night, at the behest of the excellent itsjustaname. Charming company, as ever, and a mere few minutes' stumble from the London office (which has felt v. weird this week. There's all these new faces and people keep coming up to chat, wondering what I'm doing to Germany and if it's still all there ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to the marvellousness that is ramtops. May you be utterly spoiled and adored today, just a little bit more special than every other day.

P.S. The Advanced Fishwifing practice is coming on in leaps and bounds

Isn't it cold here? Back from a week in lovely Amalfi and all is well. Briefly (as I have a lot of housework to do ( Read more... )

Men of LJ, you will soon have new headquarters ( Read more... )

So, the Birthday went pretty well. Thank you to everyone who sent messages, emails, thingies on Facebook, cards, drinks, gifts etc, it all helped enormously. Celebrations were in the plural - Tuesday saw HRH join us for gossip and seriously delicious Metroland Italian food. Wednesday saw a few Decent Types join me in Nakhon Thai for the now- ( Read more... )

... to miss_soap. Keep on setting the standards for fabulousness!

We're in ( Read more... )