In reference to this post, I was finally allowed to watch the morris dancers at the pub (at a quite unlikely posh(ish) pub too)!

I give you the Woodside Morris in all their glory:


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It's a dark and stormy night and I'm watching dodgy French vampire films in the dark on my own. The thunder, lighting and pounding rain are adding a wonderful level of seasonal creep!

In other seasonal news, I have been inspired by sueworld2003 to make some decorations for my Halloween tree, which now sports a lovely collection of tortured souls (and some ( Read more... )

We had a charity 'coffee morning'* for Macmillan Cancer Care (or whatever it's called) yesterday at work and the sister of someone in Accounts brought a ton of home-made cakes.

*it involved precious little coffee to be honest, but a lot of very tasty cake.

( Mmmm cake... )

So I was finally roped into attending the carnival of my old village Abbots Langley. Somehow, though I lived there for four years and I still have ties to the place, I have always seemed to have found something better to do. No such excuses yesterday ( Read more... )

I've finally sorted out the photos from my weekend away a few weeks ago. I took my mum to Stratford-upon-Avon, but I think we were the only tourists ever to skip a play to go horse racing instead.

( Picspam time! Very image heavy )

Wow. It's been ages since I posted ( Read more... )

I worked from home today due to the snow. It just chucked more and more of it down over the course of the morning!

( Tegan thought the snowfall was worth watching: )

Today was such a lovely Autumn day.

It was a day of soft honey-coloured light and long shadows, with a hard frost giving way to low, cold sun; and as I drove to my parent's house through the country, the leaves were falling off the trees in showers of gold. Beautiful.

( A good day for a walk in Dunstable cemetery then... )

What a weekend ( Read more... )

gamiila and I met up with freakspawn and _mysteria_ for the last day of the Hyde Park Wireless Festival with the primary objective of seeing Depeche Mode (yep, again ( Read more... )