From eattheolives, who leads a much more interesting and varied life than I do ;)

( My Week )

We walked down to the Village this morning for coffee and came across a horde of people doing a walk for breast cancer along Bloor Street. A couple of women ducked down a side alley for a quick fag - no one else saw but us and we had to laugh, once we got over our amazement ( Read more... )

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We finish work in 15 mins and I'm going to go to the World's Biggest Bookstore - for obvious reasons! It's the only thing keeping me going (more so than cameras and wedding rings ( Read more... )

I got bitten night before last, on my neck, two bites that I don't recognise except that they look like a vampire bite! How tacky... There's another one on my chest. Don't know what they are, they're nothing like mozzie bites and only started being itchy last night. Weird ( Read more... )

We're just back from spending a couple of days at the cottage. We really needed the break from the city, the humidity, the job... It was so cool and refreshing up there.

I've had a couple of opportunities to practice driving on the wrong other side of the road recently. I've been driving for over ten years but the whole "reversed" thing still ( Read more... )

Quick post here because we're about to leave for the cottage - coming back on Monday. Yay!

Just have a few things to say...

1. If The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery is your ultimate comfort read, then you absolutely have to read Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier - and if you haven't read The Blue Castle, you should ( Read more... )

Finished my 100th book of the year the other day, A Disobedient Girl. You'd think that with so much time on my hands lately, what with being unemployed, I'd be able to read so much more. But I bloody hate not working, and sitting down with a book makes me feel so guilty I can barely concentrate ( Read more... )

Am feeling, well, not great. Adam's grandfather died last night, nine months after being told he had stage 4 cancer (lung, liver, chest, eventually brain - and prostate, but he'd had that for years and it wasn't life-threatening).

He was moved to the Ian Anderson House on Friday, and we went out to see him on Saturday. Adam went again on Sunday, ( Read more... )

My brother, currently living and working in Japan, is going to Egypt soon on holiday. Lucky bugger. I've named this post in memory of one of his favourite lines from The Young Ones, which always brings him to mind for me.

***I am seriously losing patience with people on Goodreads lately. I've had way too many (two is too many, and I've had a lot ( Read more... )