Today we met up with Sid at the gates of the London Road allotments and now we're the proud owners of a key to the gates and our very own patch of wilderness to convert into a paradise of productivity and order. Hurrah and whimper. (Sid also gave us a large bundle of rhubarb to be converted into a delicious pie, which somehow seems a far easier ( Read more... )

I think it will start to sink in tomorrow that I'm not going back to work as the last two weeks have felt pretty much like a two week holiday. I've just been staying with my sis for the last week and enjoying spending some time with Izzy who's now 7 months old and is, of course, astonishingly intelligent ( Read more... )

I've finished my first sock. Yippee. Um. Now I have to knit another one......

During my long and tedious two months of notice (thank goodness that the demise of EST Connexions meant it was wasn't three, says she selfishly) I made a list in preparation for my freedom days. The list has some biggish projects and some one off things ( Read more... )

Home assembly products, don't you just love 'em? All those lovely bits of sprue hanging on ( Read more... )

I suppose officially the first day is tomorrow as I'm a paid employee until the end of today, but its certainly felt like freedom already ( Read more... )

Wonder if I could get in to study criminology and youth undergrad course from sep 2008?????

and very nice hols they were too. Holt proved to be a good choice as a base in North Norfolk. Enough foody places for frequent short trips out, charity shops to stock up with books, interesting little shops ( Read more... )

of bathroom brochures. Yep, I think we may be in with a chance of the record. Having started - or thought about starting - doing up bathrooms three times over the last 4 years we have a mighty collection. And this time it looks like we'll get there (as I've stripped all the wallpaper and knocked off an alarming number of tiles already, we'd ( Read more... )

Want to see a pohutukawa. Want to see one NOW (stamps foot). And some tree ferns. I neeeeeed to be in New Zealand.