It's been an interesting couple of weeks, and I say that in the spirit of the probably-apocryphal Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times".

Dad's been in hospital and is now out and on the mend.  As he's been having treatment in London, we've been up & down to visit, which has been great.  Whilst he's away, we've also going over to his ( Read more... )

At our rented house, we have what estate agents describe as "low-maintenance gardens".  The front is gravel and the back is decking.  I'm not so sure about the "low-maintenance" bit, given the amount of weeding the gravel requires, but it also means that any planting we do has to be in containers.  Being rather fond of gardening I have been ( Read more... )

Okay, so it's been four years since I last posted on Livejournal.

Four years!

So what has changed since then?

Reading back my last archived post, I can see that I was

• stressed to the eyeballs - well, that's changed, happily.
• about to go through a merger - we did, and it was one of the reasons I was stressed to the eyeballs.  I've now got a different ( Read more... )