I have accepted an offer on my house and had an offer I have made on another one accepted. Things are moving at the speed of lawyers with completion projected to be in January at the latest.

just maybe this time won’t be such a drama laden 5 act tragedy.

But since we've officially launched our bid last weekend I thought I'd better be a good committee member and promote it. So:


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So today we took a trip out to the Kukenhoff park which is vast and beautiful, I have lots of pictures which I will post later when I can get them off the phone but I've never seen tulips that tall!

Mother and I have talked about going to The Netherlands to see the bulb fields for ages so this year we decided to do it instead of talk about it so herewith is a brief travelogue of each days adventures as they occur.

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If you're gonna quit a job do it in style! airport worker bakes his resignation letter I'm torn between grinning at someone with the flare to think this up and the balls to do it and being marginally miffed that he writes better with icing than I can manage with a pen.

2000 words on whether myth was primarily a public political tool in ancient Rome, where the hell do I stop!

*Flails incoherently over everything* Tickets booked to Joseph Calleja live!!!!!!

pardon me while I go melt into a happy goo pile over here. God knows what kind of state I'll be in in April when the concert actually is, anyone who meets me at Easter con you have been warned I will be on a mahoosive high in anticipation.

So who remembers me mentioning that I'd be supporting 4 mad office co-workers who were walking 100km for Oxfam? Well, unsuprisingly given how much rain has fallen on the UK recently it was a mud bath, and this is what happened when we had to get towed IN to one of the checkpoints we were meeting the guys with hot food and dry clothes:

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'Cause I really need my silent meditation holiday right now! There are too many people firing off in too many directions at once all expecting me to act like gravity and pull 'em back together, for now I'm just gonna let them drift out and do their own thing.

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Wales win the Grand slam, the 6 Nations AND day one of the upgrade that has eaten my life and brain is over without any hickups.

I call that a sucessful Saturday now to banish the paperwork and then go in search of a drink.