The UK experienced its earliest snowfall since 1993 last week, alongside some of the lowest temperatures on record for this time of year. Thanks, Siberia! We tend to get the worst of the Siberian winds here because the land is so flat.

In the village we've had several dumps of snow, and it's just started snowing again. diagon's workplace has an office ( Read more... )

diagon and I are off to RHB tomorrow, and barring urgent summons to Heathrow to pick up bro, we will be ensconced in RHB until next Saturday with books and knitting and the wherewithal for me to make cinnamon buns.

I finished my Onmyoji fic for the spook_me ficathon, but I can't post it until later in the month. But finishing it does mean I can get back to the ( Read more... )

Just watched the first Iron Man film and discovered it was 24 minutes into watching it the first time on the plane when I switched it off and went for Kung Fu Panda. See now, if I'd left it a few minutes longer I'd have seen RDJ in a vest and probably would have watched for half an hour at least XD ( Read more... )

Back from a nice relaxing break in Shropshire. The hotel had a sauna that wasn't very hot but the hot tub was a nice temperature and the breakfasts were very good. diagon bought lots of wool for a bargain price, we visited some of our favourite Old Things, and I slept a lot.

( BEHOLD MY NEW OTP!!!!11!!!1!1 )

...is like watching a really slow version of Qualifying.

Did my civic duty today and voted. Despite Howden being 32nd or something on the seats that might be swung, there was precious little effort expended in trying to entice folk to change their vote ( Read more... )

Not much happening. Had a really up and down week, mostly down, but starting to go back up again.

1. The House of Ham has a new arrival. He is a grey and white Syrian and is called Ash. Atm he's very shy and retiring, but when he's a bit braver I'll post some pics of him as he is very sweet.

2. At the cinema we saw The Joneses, which was a good ( Read more... )

Not going to China ( Read more... )

We're going to have to reschedule our flights ( Read more... )

The funeral still feels ages away. When she hadn't heard when he was arriving back in the UK, Mum sent bro a really sarcastic 'So are you coming to your father's funeral?' email yesterday, which got a very chilly response. Nice. So they're arriving on Saturday and will return on Feb 4. My aunt, uncle and dog will arrive the week after bro gets here ( Read more... )