Got back yesterday afternoon after an amazing four-day weekend in Wales. The weather was dreadful, as you might expect for a March weekend in North Wales - but I had a great time ( Read more... )

For some reason the past few weeks I've really been pining to go to Disneyland Paris. I'm not sure why. I mean, fair enough, one never really needs a reason to want to go to Disney, whichever country it's in - but even so, I'm been particularly pining. I thought part of it was just missing my regular trips to America to visit my friends - since my ( Read more... )

Not a meme, or if it is, it's a Tumblr one, not Livejournal. I came across this list of 100 questions on Tumblr and thought it would be a fun way of making myself post more often. Or more than just book reviews and the occasionally fandom squee. So I'm going to try and do at least one a day, maybe more some days, maybe not at all on others, as Real ( Read more... )

Not a meme, or if it is, it's a Tumblr one, not Livejournal. I came across this list of 100 questions on Tumblr and thought it would be a fun way of making myself post more often. Or more than just book reviews and the occasionally fandom squee. So I'm going to try and do at least one a day, maybe more some days, maybe not at all on others, as Real ( Read more... )

Not a meme, or if it is, it's a Tumblr one, not Livejournal. I came across this list of 100 questions on Tumblr and thought it would be a fun way of making myself post more often. Or more than just book reviews and the occasionally fandom squee. So I'm going to try and do at least one a day, maybe more some days, maybe not at all on others, as Real ( Read more... )

I went for a run Saturday and Sunday mornings, about 3.5 miles each time, a mixture of running and walking. Then I visited my brother in Leicester on Sunday and we walked from his flat to and from town, which was probably another 8 or so miles. And my brother is a fast walker and I probably have to do 1.5 paces for every one of his. I was ( Read more... )

I think my parents will lend me the money for breast reduction at a private hospital, roughly around £6,000 or so. My brother actually has his mortgage with the Bank of Mum and Dad™ - they get a better rate of interest from him, with his interest rate fixed at the same rate mine is from my bank, than they do with the money in the bank, with ( Read more... )

My cousin (well, actually my cousin's daughter, so technically my second cousin?) got married this week, and oh my Lord. Talk about over-the-top. I've never seen anything like it. I mean, she's an only child, daddy's little girl, her mother is Romany, and they're not short of a few bob, so I was expecting it to be fairly ostentatious, but...wow. I ( Read more... )

I have spent all morning, literally, preparing food for our Mother's Day Eve dinner this evening (my brother has to leave early tomorrow to get home and my mother doesn't like to eat big meals at lunchtime, so we're doing Mother's Day dinner tonight). I was out of the door and off to the supermarket at 7am this morning, and I have only just sat ( Read more... )

I must be mad. I was up at 5.45am this morning to go for a run. Yes, on Christmas morning. Mad, clearly. But it was lovely, so cold and crisp, and there wasn't a soul about, not a car on the road, not a light in a house. Just me and the ground beneath my feet and the air in my lungs ( Read more... )