I ended up not getting round to doing a diary-type entry on Sunday, but I guess I can get the week's new things into a January round-up/stock-take sort of thing.

[Cut for length - content as per tags]The week's main non-work activities were going to see the Trainspotting sequel and finishing my second book of the month, Station Eleven by Emily St.John Mandel ( Read more... )

I guess I have to get back to doing some work today, but this seems like a good time to make a quick entry about recent things and see if I can't get back in the habit of posting regularly this year ( Read more... )

The end of the year is nearly upon us, and I have managed to find a few slivers of time today, in between bits of my 'the flat shall be (mostly) clean and tidy for the new year' frenzy to draft answers for 2015 to the 39 questions in the year meme.

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Since I’m coming to the end of my break from (paid) work (five and a bit days off over the Christmas period is almost triple what I managed last year!), it’s about time for a long-overdue update. The Christmas holiday has been pleasant enough: we spent the day itself at my sister’s place and, after a pause on the Saturday, the Sunday evening at A’s ( Read more... )

Turns out I wasn't wrong about my next update possibly being quite a while after Whitby ( Read more... )

Once more, it’s weeks since my last update, and I’ve still got a load of reviews not written (the oldest of which dates back to February. Oops).

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We've been back a few days, but this is the first time I've had the time, energy and peace and quiet to write an update about our visit to York for my birthday.

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Well, for once I'm managing to update without it taking over a month ( Read more... )

I f***ing hate packing. Even when I can find  the previous year's list to  start working from, as I have managed this year, it's a complete pain ( Read more... )

Favourite boots collected from mender - check ( Read more... )