Home to civilisation - internet, mobile signal and running water! Yes, Christmas break was memorable for not all good reasons. Still, have returned with nothing worse than a headcold and, when The Boy's brother gets around to sending them over, should have fantastic photos of proper winter wonderland, complete with fantastic ice crystals as it got ( Read more... )

The Boy and I were just sitting watching the Chelsea Flower show yesterday evening, when all of a sudden, there was a funny poppy bang noise and a big spark flashed on the metal grate in the fireplace. I was just wondering what the hell had happened (and worrying the gas was about to explode or something, as we have a living flame gas fire) when ( Read more... )

by talking about worst weeks of the year at the end of January. The gum around my wisdom tooth is badly infected so I have a swollen face, can't eat properly and have taken more painkillers in the past 3 days than I normally take in 3 months :( Thank goodness for NHS dentists and antibiotics!

I am making good progress through A Breath of Snow and ( Read more... )

I locked myself out of the flat for the first time ever this afternoon. In a tizzy because I'd been frantically trying to finish the executive summary for this flippin' report only to eventually break for lunch, very hungry indeed, to discover there was no lunch to be had, I flew out of the front door with my wallet to nip to the local corner shop ( Read more... )

It was a close run thing though, when we got to Brussels airport yesterday afternoon there were flights cancelled left, right and centre due to the storms, and I thought we were going to be stranded there. Luckily, BA are useful and managed to transfer us to a flight to Gatwick, since ours to Heathrow was cancelled, that was due to get us into ( Read more... )