Today is the day Christmas is celebrated in Russia: I wish you all a wonderful year ahead, happiness, love and want to tell you how much I appreciate you! I don't know if I say this often enough, but your posts full of fun and information is something I would not imagine my life without!!


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It's holidays! School's half-term! I am also on holidays for a week, and so is Mr.Alexander. We are having all manner of good family time together, all three of us, so I will be off LJ until the next Monday (31st of October ( Read more... )

I could not access LJ at all for several days - another DDoS attack? Just managed to do so by using an old version of IE I have for testing, still can't access it through Firefox or Chrome ( Read more... )

I have missed you all so so much, please let me know of any major news! My belated birthday wishes to the fantabulous baleanoptera!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holiday rep:The holidays were wonderful. Scottish West coast is one of most gorgeous places on Earth. We had wonderful time with our small family and my daughter’s friend: swam in the sea, did long beach walks, biking ( Read more... )

I just realised that we are going away on Saturday but my ironing is not done and my things are far from being ready! I am going to be strong and stay away from LJ , do ironing and all such things. I will see you all after the holidays, at the beginning of August!

Dalbeattie woods:

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Woo-hoo! We are going on holidays next week, like it often happens in our family, this is a last-minute booking and we are going to Scotland,Kirkcudbrightshire,Dalbeattie! The place seems to be handy for exploring Scotland and Lake district; we are taking Sasha's friend with us and Sky-the-dog!

I have found a lovely old photo of Dalbeattie:

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I think I must have said this millions of times, but I don't really like "Mother's day" (celebrated in the UK on the fourth Sunday in Lent ) , the holiday has a problem by definition - What about women who lost their mothers or their children? "Mother's" day may not be the happiest time for these women. But this doesn't stop me from greatly ( Read more... )

We are back from Florence. I must re-write my list of 5 favourite cities because Florence will be right there at the top. We had wonderful holidays and Mr. Alexander made some gorgeous pictures. In short ( Read more... )

Happy international woman's day to everyone!!!!!!!!! An old card from 1932 USSR (image from Wikipedia) is the absolute best ( Read more... )

Happy Valentine's day to everyone!!! I have been looking for something Valentine-like and the picture below made me giggle. :D


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