I'm afraid that I utterly, utterly failed to send out any Christmas cards this year. I was supposed to be doing them on 18th December, but then I found out about meirion and spent the whole day crying instead. Then I promptly went down with the kind of cold which turns your brain to snot and spent several days doing nothing more strenuous than lying in ( Read more... )

My Uncle Hughie has been successfully funeralised and buried. I am still processing.

There were easily 120 people in the church and another 120 or so at the hall afterwards, but they weren't the same people. A lot of people only went to the church, and a fair number only went to the hall. It must have been about 200 people in total ( Read more... )

I've been thinking for a while that someone should set up a community where we can post stories about Kay (mhw, who died recently and unexpectedly). I kept reading lovely tributes to him in various people's journals, but I don't know everyone who knew him - and I don't think anyone else does, either. He had too many friends and acquaintances in/from ( Read more... )

Off to Brighton Pride in, um, less than 4 hours. So why am I online? Insomnia. Argh ( Read more... )

I had been going to post an update about the fantastic weekend I had with many of my loved ones. But I'm behind in catching up with livejournal, and I found out that elisem's beloved Mike died. The news was all across my friends list ( Read more... )