Hi honey, I'm hooooome ( Read more... )

Meanwhile, I have - just in time - accomplished my goal of reading new authors from A-Z. An interesting experiment, I'm not sure I'll repeat it but it did open up some new authors that I wouldn't otherwise have tried. And a great way to pass the time in a library!

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So my last entry was a fortnight ago - well that ain't nothing on how incommunicado I'm about to be. We hit the road a week today, and I think it's incredibly unlikely I'll update again before we get back to the UK in February. It's possible of course - I thought I would stop using email when I went to university, and look how wrong I was then! ( Read more... )

Well, it's less than three weeks now till the big off. I'm so sad to go, but in many ways I just want it over now. I'm sick of mooning about the place thinking of all the great places we haven't got time to go to 'one last time'. I made us an itinerary today with a countdown of all the things we have to do, and there just isn't time to go back ( Read more... )

Well we've picked up the new car and it has not yet fallen apart. So far, so good. We spent some time on Saturday morning crawling around underneath it in the rain, trying to change the oil as per instructions downloaded from the internet, but sadly when push came to shove, our wrench was just too darned big. So sod that. Instead we had a very ( Read more... )

Good God. We have a new cinema in Melbourne, and I do declare I have just had the best cinematic experience of my life. The screen we were in,'half-pipe', doesn't have seats. Instead they have just a few scattered enormous beanbags. You can fit two people on each one, and it just moulds to you perfectly - you can take off your shoes, sprawl out, ( Read more... )

So yesterday was an interesting day. We were awake absurdly early, so made the most of it and got up and out - we left the house at 9am! OK, there was a wardrobe malfunction that meant we had to spend another 10 minutes faffing while I found suitable clothing for the weather that didn't entail a jeans/denim jacket combo, but essentially we were on ( Read more... )

I wonder what he's done...

Oh. Yes.

There's coming home to discover he has got you a tray of little cakes :)

Is there anything in life finer than than coming in from a hard day's work, to find your beloved slaving over a hot stove, and you have nothing to do but sit back, watch the Simpsons, and drink beer?