Initial wedding plans have survived first contact with both sets of parents intact. Deposit has been paid and the date is officially 1st October next year at the Moorcock ( Read more... )

Currently twiddling my thumbs and poking at cleaning in preparation for parents arriving later on today. The main purpose of this visit (besides the fact that I haven't seen them since August) is to introduce them to where we're planning on getting married. I think my Dad's still secretly impressed that we're choosing to do it in a pub. I know my ( Read more... )

This morning has been fairly dramatic, mainly because of a cat ( Read more... )

So, today mainly consisted of a team-building course this morning. This primarily involved getting up stupidly early on a very cold morning to get to work, and then spend the morning being taught how to work in a team. For me, this was a morning of being told how awesome I am and playing with juggling balls (What? There were toys on the table. I ( Read more... )

Wedding was lovely. Saw a lot of people I don't see anywhere near enough and really should, drank an appreciable amount of wine, watched people almost kill themselves cailidh dancing directed by man in hat with stick (Geoff has bagsied that job for the future) and listened to a frankly hilarious band. The Town Hall was suitably impressive, as was ( Read more... )

Finally caught the lurg. It was only a matter of time, really. Was worse earlier in the week when brain not work good, but am now mostly made of snot and ear pain ( Read more... )

Typical. Just get home from food shopping so fridge and freezer is full for the first time in weeks. First pizza is in the oven, so Adam can eat whilst I finish unpacking, get changed, all that jazz. Then the oven makes a soft popping sound and goes silent. Silence is not in the nature of our oven, which rattles, grumbles and complains its way ( Read more... )

Big O'Vision was put outside last night in the pouring rain as we have nowhere to store it and the damned thing's near dead anyway with the intention of ringing the council and getting it removed. We return home to find it has gone. I think some mental bastard has actually nicked the seven tonne monstrosity. I have a huge amount of respect for the ( Read more... )

Big O'Vision has not been well for a while. It was taking longer and longer to warm up, and kept flickering and doing worrying things that suggested it might be on its last legs. It was free and has done more than its service. Adam's folks had offered to put in a percentage on a new one, so today we bit the bullet and wandered down to Richer Sounds ( Read more... )

This week has been shit. Complete and utter donkey-bollocks. Unfortunately it still has a day to go, so I've pre-ordered a bacon and egg buttie to be ready on my desk when I get in to incentivise myself into not just staying in bed ( Read more... )