Today the bagpipes I bought arrived. They look great, and from what I can tell, sound good too. Am definitely going to need lessons, though - and gosh, gee, I'm going up to herald the SCA demo at the Mount Barker Highland Gathering on Saturday. If I can't find a teacher there, I'd better buy a map to my arse ( Read more... )

Had a lovely time last night; Ed came over for dinner before we headed over to the Wheatie, canasta cards in tow. Met two friends of his there, Claire and Sam, both lovely, and spent the evening until kicking out time playing canasta. Exactly my kind of sociable evening out these days ( Read more... )

Yesterday was just lovely, perfectly so ( Read more... )

Some mental switch obviously flicked in the Week of Great Cheque Writing; something, somewhere said 'Ok, enough grieving for dead relationship, enough grieving for lost parents. Time to fix your life.' Am fired with enthusiasm to deal with stuff. Only hope it lasts!

The Library has been my bug bear for some time. It was always my space when ( Read more... )

When I went back to Uni, I had a vague fantasy about finding other students as passionate about reading, about books and about history as me. Tutorials were a great disappointment; a room filled to capacity with 20-25 people, and if I was lucky, 1 maybe 2 other people would say something. I found myself not answering a question posed, because I was ( Read more... )

This has been a good weekend ( Read more... )