So I am home again after seeing nearly ALL of my VAST family this holiday season - the Rogers, the Dunns, the Butlers, the Plants, even the Greens, who are my mother's cousins and who I only met a few years ago. And although Christmas was tainted by the imminent death of my grandfather (he died on January 2nd, in his sleep, with dementia and ( Read more... )

And I'm glad I was. See, yesterday I was whining about not getting down South for Christmas. now it is Christmas Eve and here I am in Devon with my mum, her mum, her twin sisters, my cousins, my uncle and my brother. I'm going to spend New Year in Dorset with my dad, stepmum, sister, dad's mum and at least one of the collection of aunts and uncles ( Read more... )

It is looking increasingly likely that I won't get down south to visit the grandparents this christmas.
Fucking white christmas. I was looking forward to a big family bash.

Have part of a song in my head, except it's a song that hasn't been written yet. If I try and write the rest of it I know it'll turn out crap - I never was much could at country and western and this line is definitely from a country song.
'...hair like gold,
face like a diamond, all shiny and cold'

I hate it when that happens.

Today i went grocery shopping and the local organic produce shop was selling these amazing coxes which were just begging to have apple pie made of them. So I went to Morrisson's and finished my shop there - plus some blackberries, since the berry season is over and supermarket blackberries are really the only option, and some creme fraiche, because ( Read more... )

I have toothache. What with the cat wanting to come in and go out and phone calls at insane times, it has been meaning I haven't had a single unbroken night's sleep all week.
On wednesday, I go into hospital and have two wisdom teeth removed. Mum thinks it might change the whole shape of my face - she has a point. It is actually quite crowded in

So I ordered my modem, chewed my fingernails and tried to find other things to do in the two weeks till it arrived - not hard, really, since I was moving house. And then, oh, glory be, it came! EUPHORIA! And the letter on the front informed me that - it wasn't due to go live for another four days ( Read more... )

Well, I have just moved house! I am now living in my first independant house, and spent the first night there last night. Very quiet, my stuff isn't up yet to muffle the sound of my thoughts echoing around me - it'll be less lonely with my cat there ( Read more... )

I now have the keys and tenancy agreement to a lovely little house not far from where I'm currently living. It is my first time living alone. I am EXCITED.
Move in over the next week.

Going to look at a house tomorrow. Did look at a flat today - it was behind the scoreboard at the local cricket ground, and however cool it would have been to me and my fellow Biker Mice fans that I'd get to live in a scoreboard, it really was less a flat and more an en suite hotel room ( Read more... )