Happy belated Beltane to them as celebrates it! I got back from seeing cybermule (H) in Bristol last night. I read Sarah Waters' The Paying Guests on the coach down. I kept looking up and there were rookeries, then globes of mistletoe, in the trees lining the motorway. It wasn't always easy to tell the two apart, until the rooks lifted from the branches. H ( Read more... )

For our second date cybermule (I'll call her H from now on) spirited me away to the Peak District. Snow was coming down as we came into Cheshire, where we stopped for a while at Jodrell Bank. The weather was too bad for us to give it a proper visit, alas. But there was something apt in the way the observatory's dish blended with the flat-pewter sky. The ( Read more... )

So. Just took Martin out for a quiet birthday meal. We went to The Shamrock which, despite the name, serves Eritranean and Ethiopian food. Spinach and cheese, salad, and the usual vegetarian combo on injera. Oh, and honey wine ( Read more... )

A very brief entry. We're at Martin's parents in Medway. Tomorrow we fly out to NJ. I'm quietly excited ( Read more... )