January went by quickly but has left me in a pretty good place, with most of my settling in processes sorted out including UK banking and NHS, and with a job on the horizon. I also got my computer repaired and my room somewhat set up, and less productively played about a zillion hours of Pocket Mortys ( Read more... )

The last few weeks have been a bit of a mad rush ( Read more... )

So on Christmas Eve johncoxon proposed and I said yes.

The rest of the Xmas holiday was lovely as well, as was New Year's Eve.

More details linked over on my blog, but suffice it to say that it has been a pretty great holiday season :)

(crossposted from my website)

Today makes two weeks in Leicester, during which the weather has been as hot or hotter than it was in Santa Monica, something I did not see coming. But otherwise it’s been quite nice.

I got into Leicester pretty late on Thursday and then John and I headed to Peterborough on Friday to visit his family. Saturday involved ( Read more... )