Basically, the icon of circles signifies where I've been the past not-quite-a-fortnight -- chasing around in circles, never exiting the maze. But I have had to take today off because I am trying not to succumb to the sinus infection that's brewing. (POLLEN IS THE DEVIL ( Read more... )

Oof.

Let us pass over the allergies from hell, and focus on good things:

*my tree guys came Friday and cleaned up one section of the backyard, including trimming a cherry laurel that now looks like total awesomeness and cutting back a hell-holly that was trying to kill me every time I walked by. Whee!
*Naomie Harris got an OBE and looked like a ( Read more... )

Oh, we made it. [clings to Friday evening]

So anyway, after a long slog it's time for pleasure. My night will be given over to two things: savoring my glass of Imagery Winery White Burgundy, and getting ready to order Anthony Head's new album "Staring at the Sun."

So the Imagery Winery White Burgundy is just utterly delicious. It's a blend, all ( Read more... )

For those in the glorious UK and/or Canada, these recommendations are probably not well suited (due to laws on international commerce and shipping), but for folk from these United States:

*My brother sent me tea from Piper's Loose Leaf Tea, a new company from the Mid-South, led by an expatriate Brit. The tea I got is 50 Greys, described thusly: ( Read more... )

This week, in a rare combination of wotsits, I went both Tuesday and Wednesday to the local wine shop & drinking establishment. (Hadn't been there since April, when I'd got freixenet's birthday bottle of wine.) Two different visits, two different groups of people with which to socialize, but on each occasion I had a glass of the same excellent wine -- a ( Read more... )