I'm on holiday at the moment - I carried over some spare holiday allowance from last year, and it had to be used up by the end of March, so I'm taking a long weekend. So my mum suggested we go to Rothesay and stay in their little flat for a night or two ( Read more... )

So I'm on my three week year-end holiday - had some extra holidays to use up, go me ( Read more... )

(I meant to write a con report, but never got round to it, so here's the condensed version...)

Second Auchi ever... awesome hotel (except stairs were out of order - Nate had to use the lift...!), a bit less chaotic organisation than the last Auchi, another telling of the snake story by Jan Scott-Frazier, a floor-rollingly funny adults-only event ( ( Read more... )

(I did mean to write a big recap of this, but I never got round to it... so here's a summary version ( Read more... )

Another year's ended. It's the 31st, I'm officially 21 (well ... actually, I was born at 3:30pm so I'm not *quite* there yet) and I've finished all my exams (bar one resit in the summer).

It's also been almost a month since I made a proper LJ entry. I'm getting lazy >< (or rather: I was lazy, I'm getting lazier ( Read more... )

Happy New Year people ( Read more... )

Nathan and I are apparently heading down to London for New Year. Well, New-Year-ish. I only noticed this about an hour ago, realised that several people from IRC were going, realised that RyanAir were doing cheap air tickets to London...

So...I'm going to London ^_^

Flight details:

Outward bound:
Thursday, 01 Jan 2004
Flight FR408
Depart Glasgow ( Read more... )

This is written from the back room of Matt's house in Bristol, from a laptop. Fuzzie's setting up their sleeping bag under the table, and the rest of the noders are stuffed into the (small) front room, drinking beer, chatting, doing massages.

I caught the plane flight okay, and arrived in Bristol airport a couple ( Read more... )

I booked another ticket, for 8:50am. This is one plane I am not going to miss.

I can't sleep. Contemplating just staying up - I'd have to get up in about two hours anyway.

I have become a statistic.

Because it's common for a certain number of passengers not to turn up for a flight, airlines routinely overbook their flights to pack as many passengers in as possible.
You're at the airport, waiting for your flight to board, listening out for announcements. The intercom bings and a voice comes on, announcing "Last call ( Read more... )