Today is the 20th anniversary of my mum’s death. I don’t talk about it online every year, but twenty years is a really, really long time (yesterday I found a comment from 2005 where I said nine years felt like a long time!) and I felt like I needed to mention it. It’s been on my mind all week.

I miss her a lot, and it has been such a long time ( Read more... )

It has been a ridiculously stressful week, but most of the things causing me trouble are over. We have now booked our flights for Japan, OH YES (did I mention this? I'M GOING TO JAPAN NEXT YEAR). Lots of faff getting them sorted but oh my GOD, it's done now!

I've not been doing much else but working and stressing, and I am mainly posting this ( Read more... )

I HAVE POSTED A THING.

Let's not talk about how long it has been since I posted fic, ok? But here is my first Killjoys fic:

We don't measure the blood we've drawn
archiveofourown.org/works/6851467

He has nothing to do but wait for Fancy Lee to wake up.
Gen, post 1x10

Apart from Killjoys stuff I've been writing terrible Emmerdale drawerfic in my head ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago I went to Paris with a friend and then completely failed to post photos. However I'm just at the start of 10 days off work (booked off the week after Easter!) so let's try and get some things cleared from the to-do list :D

As per usual I wasn't taking loads of organised photos so this is a random selection of things that caught ( Read more... )

So this week I thought I would pass on some links, as recently I bought a sd card for my tablet and then discovered that you can't just stick it in the tablet and have it work (NB think this depends on the device as pretty sure the one on my phone went in just fine).

I did a LOT of searching and tried a lot of apps and faffed with a lot of ( Read more... )

No proper update this week, as on Thursday I was grumpy from dealing with Tesco customer service and Southeastern being useless, and then on Friday I had the day off to paint. I painted my bedroom this weekend and I looooooove it. I did purple (as in my last flat; I really love purple) but this time I've done the wall behind my bed in a bright ( Read more... )

On Sunday evening (not yesterday, the one before that) I ventured out in TERRIBLE weather and battled with transport nonsense to get to Hammersmith to see Will Young with kikishua.

IT WAS SO GOOD!

Support was Lemar, who I do like a lot, and even more after seeing him live - he just had one guy playing acoustic guitar as his musical background, and ( Read more... )

Bit late with this week's entries due to being out and about, so I've got two things to talk about.

First up - Hyper Japan Christmas Market. My best friend organised this trip and I went along having not looked it up much beforehand, but expecting something like the Language Show (trade show for linguists/language teachers etc) but with a bunch of ( Read more... )

Helloooooooooooooo

I've been meaning to post for AGES but have been generally useless lately, for reasons which I will now explain. But first! A couple of quick happy updates:

1) I've been in my flat for just over a year and it is wonderful. I love it so much and sometimes still can't believe it is mine. Garden is coming on amazingly too.

2) As of ( Read more... )

Earlier in the week I was talking to the guy I sit next to at work about school because it was GCSE results day and we work on exam papers.

During the course of the conversation I explained how I only ended up doing Classics at school because I changed schools between Year 9 and Year 10 (beginning of GCSE course for those outside UK) because my mum ( Read more... )