All my posts these days seem to be update posts because there's so long between them!

Well, OK, so what's been happening?

My housing situation is about to change. I currently "share" a maisonette with a surgeon and her partner who have been living in Chelmsford this year for her job. They "rent me a room" for an appropriate price, and when they ( Read more... )

Last couple of weeks. Hm.

( Aberaeron visit )

( vancouver )

So yesterday was my cousin James' last day visiting the UK.

( visit )

I have my mother's hands. A tiny bit smaller, a different skin tone, but in shape, strikingly like ( Read more... )

West Wales is beautiful. Aberaeron is a very small harbour village nestled amongst quintessentially green, alternately wooded and fieldy hills. Rowena and Ifan have a house set just outside the village on quite a steep slope, with a massive garden from which plums, pears, apples, herbs, tomatoes, etc, etc, etc are gathered. Sheep are audible ( Read more... )

I never seem to want to post when I'm back in Vancouver! Maybe because I'm actually at home with my mum, and I know she reads my journal when I'm away, so I'm writing about stuff that happens at home and she knows what happened and all the different points of viewness... or maybe just because I'm on vacation and lazy ( Read more... )

( In which I am the welcome wagon, a random pick-up attempt, a contact crisis, and church again )