I can't believe it's only a week until NaNoWriMo! Nicky is saying that she'll do it with me this year, which would be awesome! Can't wait.

We've had a really busy couple of weeks. I've been travelling around for work (travelled 19 hours over two days last week!), our friend Rachel came to stay with us, and Nicky's mum has been up for a couple of ( Read more... )

Liz and Laura came to stay with us last weekend! We had country ales in various country pubs, went out for afternoon tea, visited the castle and Laura got rather snuggly with a knight! It was an awesome weekend, we can't wait for them to come back!


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I'm on the train on the way to the office in London, having got up at 5am to catch it - yawn! Nicky was on a night shift last night, and it was a bit strange leaving an empty house this morning. I'm staying with our friends Liz and Laura tonight, and then they're coming back to Warwick with me tomorrow evening to spend the weekend with us. Exciting ( Read more... )

We've had a very busy week, filled with visitors! It's awesome that people actually want to come and stay with us, but we're not used to it yet - no one wanted to come when we lived in Lewisham!

Dad arrived from Canada last weekend and stayed with us overnight before going back down south for a week of business meetings. We really enjoyed showing ( Read more... )

My mum has been coming over once a week, usually on Nicky's day off, so they spend the afternoon gardening or crafting together whilst I work, and then we have dinner all together. It's awesome - they've pruned back everything that was overgrown, and have planted lettuces, spring onions, radishes, spinach, bay trees, mint and garlic. We also went ( Read more... )

We went to Coventry on Saturday to buy our Blaze jerseys, but the youth in charge of the shop looked absolutely terrified at the thought of customers and asked us to come back on pretty much any other day when someone else would be in charge, so we went to the British Heart Foundation furniture shop across the road instead and had a look at their ( Read more... )

I'm on the train on the way to London for my first day in the office since we moved to Warwick. Even though the train was at 6.12am it feels quite civilised, and I brought my Tassimo coffee out in a travel mug so I'm happy!

Remember I mentioned that we bought a giant courgette for 50p the Sunday before last (turns out I remembered wrong and it was ( Read more... )

We have a glut of green tomatoes at the moment as my mum came over last week and tamed our huge mess of tomato plants into beautifully neat individual stalks tied to canes. We managed to fill a whole wheelie bin full of tomato plant foliage, but saved some of the nicest looking tomatoes. Unfortunately since they were all hidden under leaves before ( Read more... )

We've been in our new house less than 3 days, and have already harvested (and eaten!) carrots and tomatoes from the garden! Amazing! There are loads more tomatoes on the brink of being ripe too, I think we're going to have to cook them up and freeze them!

Moving day went really smoothly, and we were really grateful for Mum and Nigel's expertise in ( Read more... )

Only 4 days until moving day!

We're pretty much all packed now. Nicky has never properly moved house before (she's lived in the same house her whole life, and just did quick and easy moves in a taxi to get to and from her student accommodation) so she's been quite overwhelmed by the whole process, but we've kept on track with meticulous planning and ( Read more... )