Saw The Used in Birmingham Tuesday night. They were just brilliant. They were so much better than I dared hope.

Got in there for the last couple of songs by Hexes (None of them are fit! - my sister's words) and saw all of We Are The Ocean. We Are The Ocean did this thing where the screamy singer (Wikipedia tells me his name is Dan Brown) opened ( Read more... )

... is that you have to come back. Just spent a week in Croatia. It was fantastic. We had (mostly) good weather. Great food, nice beach-areas. There weren't sandy beaches but bathing platforms - the rocks were concreted in to form walls at the water's edge with steps or ladders into the water. Or just rocks down to the water. We took shoes with us ( Read more... )

I feel like I spent the whole weekend eating. I went to visit a friend I lived with at Uni Friday to Sunday, then went out for dinner last night with friends too. I was supposed to go out for dinner tonight (for my birthday, sorta yay) but just couldn't face it. I'm so ridiculously full. Had some lovely lamb chops and home-grown potatoes instead ( Read more... )