Today, I had to host the church zoom room - luckily, it went well, and we got a lot of people on it.

It was a more normal Sunday for me, so I just went to Mum's house as usual, and we had lunch, had a walk, and we ordered my online shopping.

Yep, this day has been so average that there's nothing much more to blog about. See you tomorrow.

I spent much of today doing a long hike with the ramblers; we had a few dropouts, mostly personal reasons, so best not asking ( Read more... )

I hope everyone's new year went well.

I spent it with the family, as I always do these days - it was low key. We had a walk this morning, and we had good weather for it. I stayed at Mum's until we finished Doctor Who.

I'm really glad to be off work all this week. It's so nice to get a few weeks without having the commute to work.

First off, a belated Happy Christmas to everyone ( Read more... )

I spent Easter at Mum's house, and had a good time. One of the neigbours called round with Easter Cakes - it was a bit weird because she said: "Hi, Gavin" when I answered the door, despite the fact that I think this is the first time we've met face-to-face; they must have seen my name in Mum's Christmas cards, or something ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning was spent moving items out of storage to be eventually sold; it was all stuff like unwanted furniture, and we somehow managed to fit it all into the van that we had hired.

Then, we had a big lunch together and sat outside in the garden and played some Articulate, which we had fun doing - mostly talking about how the egg timers take ( Read more... )

I've spent all of the last week anticipating our holiday in Spain next week, and it's been getting exciting. I got my hair cut on Wednesday, and then returned to the office to find our IT manager was poring over something at my Line Manager's desk, and he'd decided that his coffee mug belonged on my desk - it didn't, and I was not too pleased ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to Nandos with the guys again; however, I had already eaten a chicken tikka masala for lunch, so by the end of the meal, I did not want to look at another chicken, and I found myself feeling incredibly full ( Read more... )