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A Lead on a Dress
I don't like the idea of buying a dress that I can never wear again and in the modern world a white evening gown is a wedding dress. On the other hand, in my current life, it's not exactly like opportunities to wear a non-white evening gown are knocking the door down. Should I find myself attending a formal function, I have the dress I wore as Miss ( Read more... ) -
First Wedding Venue to Check Out
Christopher has booked a weekend for the first wedding venue we want to go look at (given that we've already seen the Townhouse and I've been to Urquhart Castle) so in January we're doing a two night stay at Atholl Palace, a converted victorian mannor house in Pitlochry. Pitlochry is about 2 hours away by train and everytime we've ridden past we've ( Read more... ) -
A Puzzle
Christopher, he who does not believe in letting me even know how many gifts or what size boxes they might come in, surprised me with a gift this morning: a little box, about 4" square, tied up with ribbon. Inside was a stack of cards (also tied with ribbon) and a sheet with instructions. Each card would have a letter, symbol or picture on it. The ( Read more... ) -
My Cat is Neurotic
I can't remember if I specifically mentioned here on LJ that back in August, Chris and I adopted two stray kittens from the SSPCA. They're absolutely adorable:
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Some Thoughts on Pumpkin Pie
First, it's never to early to worry about Thanksgiving. I've been increasingly frantic about it for about a fortnight now, starting when I realized that all the stores were skipping straight to Christmas. Now, to be clear, I'm aware that Scotland doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving and that even with other holidays in the way, stores in the US are ( Read more... ) -
Cross-Posting and Ping-Backs
The general consensus seems to be that people hate everything to do with cross-posting though I haven't heard much about the ping-back feature. For those of you who (hate the idea but) haven't played around with it here are two links to Cleolinda Jones: cross-posting posts and comments to Twitter (with screen caps) and what happens if and whn you ( Read more... ) -
Induction
I had my induction today. There are two groups for my course (computing): group 1 meets on MTW and my group, group 2, meets on WThF so I'll have 4 day weekends. There are 18 people in each group and I am the only girl in mine. I wandered around the "freshers fayre" and refused bibles, plastic bags, reusable bags, pens, pads of paper, sweeties, ( Read more... ) -
Mushroom Sauce - Meatloaf - Tomato Soup
This week in cooking with N&N:
Mushroom & Bacon Cream Sauce - Jamie Oliver, Ministry of Food - 20 minutes - Serves 4 (we got 2 ( Read more... ) -
Yestertoday
"Yestertoday I was cleaning the guest room chez mes parents when I ran over my foot with the vacuum cleaner. It really hurts ( Read more... ) -
I paid for another year
I paid for another year of LJ. I'm hoping that the facebook honeymoon is over and people will come back here to post more. I hope I come back here to post more. And I hated the way the side-banner ads rendered on my netbook. But mostly I just have to get away from that annoying scan cafe ad. Ray swears by them but if I hear that shutter click thing ( Read more... )