For my trip into town today I went to Costa and saw they had the Gingerbread & Cream Latte back, so I went for one of those. Then I bought a Christmas sandwich from Waitrose and I'm not even sorry. I do not care that it's still October, I am going to enjoy the festive fare for as long as I can ( Read more... )

I've just had a week off work during which I did very little other than build Lego, put together jigsaws, and re-watch Brooklyn Nine Nine. It was glorious. But now work is upon me again and, if today was any indication, I'm going to be absolutely worn out by the time Christmas comes around ( Read more... )

Happy Guy Fawkes Night, everyone. I'm going to celebrate by making dinner and watching University Challenge. Party hard.

As we were getting fish and chips last night I popped into the new little shop that's recently opened next door to it. They don't sell rolls. But they do sell porn. Good to see they've got their priorities in order.

Happy Bonfire Night everyone. In a couple of hours Rob, Esme and I are going to walk down to the rugby club and celebrate the failure of a Catholic plot to blow up the king and parliament by watching pretty explosions and a man being burnt in effigy.

Then we're going to get fish & chips.

What a wonderful country this is.

I can hear fireworks but I can't see them. That's always annoying.

This, on the other hand, is awesome:

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My parents and I have just been on the patio watching the local rugby club fireworks display while drinking mulled wine. Very impressive fireworks, not so great wine ( Read more... )

I suppose a more detailed account of the awesomeness of Saturday night is in order. People came round, we had fireworks, we had a bonfire, we burnt various things, we played Cranium, we drank, we laughed, we created diet coke mentos geysers and basically had a thoroughly good time ( Read more... )

My throat is killing me. I really don't think all the smoke from last night was helpful either.

Totally worth it though.

The fireworks, bonfire and drinking night is going awesomely. We are currently in the middle of a game of Cranium and the only reason I have come over to post this is so I don't lose at NaBloPoMo.