Back at work after a wonderful break ( Read more... )

Summer it's doing it's usual thing and whizzing on by. Booked some time off to go walking in the Dales at the beginning of July. Hoping to book in some ziplining or abseiling too ( Read more... )

So finally all exams over and done with. One went terribly, the other felt good. I just hope the results average out but I won't know till the beginning of July whether any resits will be needed. In the meantime I'm rejoicing that my time is my own again ( Read more... )

A.K.A Stuffing your head full of information which you need to retain for a period of about a fortnight, most of which will be a complete mystery to you in a year ( Read more... )

Your results:
You are Jean-Luc Picard
Jean-Luc Picard
80%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)
70%
Will Riker
70%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
50%
Mr. Sulu
50%
Geordi LaForge
50%
Worf
50%
Uhura
45%
Spock
40%
Mr. Scott
40%
Chekov
35%
Data
24%
Deanna Troi
15%
Beverly Crusher
10%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
0%

A lover of Shakespeare and other
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Why do people go to clubs and then spend their whole time whinging about them ( Read more... )

Well last weekend I eased relatively quietly into my fourth decade. My sisters celebrated by making me wear age badges and reminding me that I am the 'oldest' of us. We had a nice relaxed family meal at Maxi's. Met up with a few friends on Saturday at Substance and then went home to open presents. Al got me the brain training game and a DSLite. At ( Read more... )

Friday, got up early and went off to Lingdale to see various rellies. Kids were on good form. Josh is definately a surrealist comic, his jokes being either scatalogical or just plain opaque. Went up Eston Hills, egg rolling and egg eating. Made the mistake of getting different easter presents instead of the same thing for the girls which was a ( Read more... )

This weekend I went to the Adelphi to be at Sara and Jon's leaving the country party. They had cannily brought along a case full of assorted house tat to be distributed amongst their friends. Jon had forgiven me for tiring Sara out the previous week and they were excited about the results of their most recent scan which was much more detailed than ( Read more... )

Bah! I've still got a fat ugly finger. The bruising has pretty much gone but the middle joint of the middle finger is still swollen and a bit of a mis-shape and refuses to go back to normal no matter how much I moan about it ( Read more... )