Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you all had a smashing time. I did, it was super. Nice presents and nice food and lots of hugs with Grandma. Also, the following anecdote ( Read more... )

What ho, chaps! Summer, I can now report, is definitely icumen in: the first Pimms of 2010 has been spotted at Fangirl Towers. Naturally, being England, this will be the brief eye in the drizzly, grey-skied really-not-even-one-interesting-storm that is the British summer, but tant pis. For now, I will enjoy the (mild) sunshine. Actually, for the ( Read more... )

So, I am back in sunny Barlborough for the second time in a week (ah, the M1, my dear old chum), this time for Grandpa's funeral (he died at the beginning of last week). It feels a bit weird to have gone from having all my grandparents less than two years ago, to having just one clinging still to the vine. Anyway, another outing of the funeral ( Read more... )

OH MY GOD, WHY AM I ALWAYS SO STUPID? WHY? I need to be in bed and asleep now because of getting up at some godawful hour tomorrow to go to Sheffield pour visiter la grandmère, except there's an awful lot of faffing going on, and we watched Bones and Supernatural when Katie got back from Brownies. Firstly, can someone please to be explaining to me ( a spoilery thing )

Had a lovely sojourn with Katie to Greenwich Park today to see Donna. We sat in the sun and dined well on picnic food and fizzy pink wine - good times. I then abandoned them to bop around London, and came home. Now. Riddle me this, people: at what point did I think getting a bus home from Aldwych on a Saturday afternoon was a good plan. If I'd just ( Read more... )

I write this sitting on the sofa. Which is less interesting, I grant you, than some other literary openings. Anyway, so much has happened for me to tell you all about, that I'm bound to leave everything interesting out. However, I will try my best, sadly hampered by the fact that I'm about to explode from an excess of chicken korma (mmm, chicken ( Read more... )

♥ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, megaleena♥ I have just eaten so much squash risotto I may well turn into a giant grain of starchy rice. Think of me fondly, darlings ( Read more... )

Item: I have a headache. Woe.
Item: I took the rubbish out but have not done all the washing up yet.
Item: I am about to go and make Mississippi mud cake.
Item: I love Star Trek.
Item: I'm supposed to be going to the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park tomorrow, thus it rains.
Item: The fresias I bought the other day are absolutely beautiful and smell ( Read more... )

♥ OMG STAR TREK! STAR TREK TONIGHT! I AM SO EXCITED ( Read more... )