Wirral -> Manchester, at last. Moving has not been particularly fun, to put it mildly. Sheer volume of stuff + having to get it all down from a 2nd floor flat + unloading at top speed on a tiny city centre road + CLEANING AND CLEANING AND CLEANING OH GOD WHY DID OUR LAST FLAT HAVE TO BE SO BIG = bad times; I have been in an absolutely foul temper ( Read more... )

1. Me, Hazel, and an old school friend went on an impromptu mini road trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on Wednesday. We drove up with a ridiculously large bag of snacks and a mixtape of tenuously themed songs through miserable thick morning mist, but arrived at Blackpool under clear skies and bright sunshine, where we stayed pretty much until the ( Read more... )

Got back on Monday from spending Easter weekend in Gibraltar with my dad's side of the family. Although my grandparents had come over here relatively recently, I'd not been to Gib for 8 years, so it was pretty exciting to go back ( Read more... )

lj rename tiems! I've been wanting to rename to fanbeatsman for ages, but have only now got enough cash lying around that I don't feel bad coughing up ~£10 to do so. There's nothing particularly deep behind the name - it's a quote from one of my favourite bits of one of my favourite Futurama episodes; it sounds quite neat as a handle; and it works rather ( Read more... )

Thank you for my Christmas card, 0x! It was mega exciting to receive, and the message really made me smile <3

This odd and usually rather dismal peninsular microclimate has finally produced the closest to a white Christmas we're ever going to get:

( let it snow )

I've posted a couple of times recently about how bittersweet it is to be confronted with the reality of your relatives as people, but mostly with emphasis on the "bitter". This weekend, staying with my dad, I think I saw more of the sweetness of it. I went for a drive with him on Saturday, and we talked (as we always end up doing - I've lost count ( Read more... )

Finished Hotel Dusk: Room 215 this morning! AND IT WAS AWESOME.

( review under the cut - completely spoiler-free; it just got a bit long )

Back from France at last, a little earlier than expected after Mum decided to put us & the car on the Brive-Calais sleeper train for a big chunk of the way home, instead of driving. I'm feeling much, much better for the trip, in many ways - I got an awful lot of work done (much more, I think, than I would have done if I'd been at home for the week ( Read more... )

The bizarre microclimate I live in has been making its first attempts at spring!

( pretties )

eulogytobiko has some new roommates:

( see the cute )