Wow, been a long time, LJ! Well, I've been ludicrousbusy doing all sorts so here goes with brief updates on each aspect ( Read more... )

There are lots of things to update you on! Sadly, no further bunny news but I reckon that's because I asked an essay's-worth of questions; although that was entirely necessary (thanks to the RWAF for your help)!

First, ( I actually joined the smartphone revolution proper )

As you know, while I was in Russia, my Nikon D40 kinda died. After some extensive investigation, no cause was found so it was either get a new camera or risk expensive repairs by sending it off for assessment. Today, I bought a Nikon D90 while getting £30 off for the old faulty Nikon and getting 'official' part-exchange of £20 for my ancient ( Read more... )

It's been one of those s: I went from working 20hrs a week to nothing, but still haven't found time to do half the things I wanted and even needed to do. I uploaded some pictures to Facebook, but it's new way of complaining that you've exceeded the upload limit is to simply tell you it's crashed and supposedly not allow you to save the 435 you've ( Read more... )

Today I had an interview for Student Services at the University of Nottingham. It went alright, but I'm not sure I'm really as suited to the role as some other people might be. Still, I'll be happy if I get it, even though it is only 15hrs a week over lunchtime! I finished work on Friday so I'm a free-but-penniless woman for some time now ( Read more... )

Just watching BBC's Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture, specifially the Russian bit. It brought back great memories! It was in Kizhi and the train journey there reminded me of the one I took to Petrozavodsk (though he didn't travel platskartniy of course!) in the snow and I nearly died of laughter when he was taking tea with a хозайка ( Read more... )