I walked down to town today to buy my friend's daughter a Christmas present.  Her husband is English (even if he has been living in the States long enough to no longer have an accent), so I thought it'd be good to get her a couple of typically English children's books.  So, obviously, I got a Paddington Bear book and another one called That Rabbit ( Read more... )

My internet connection is going in and out (BT is having issues) so let's hope I can actually type up and post this entire entry without anything going awry.

I found out some interesting things about my family yesterday.  Upon examining the family tree that Evelyn drew up, I found out that I have a relation who was Bishop of Ontario (Protestant) ( Read more... )

Holy shit, England beat France!  Out of the three big games today (England v. Estonia football, England v. Sri Lanka cricket, England v. France rugby), we won two of them, so I'm quite pleased about that.  I really was not expecting the rugby team to pull it off.  And now they have.  I had my window open and I could literally hear people screaming ( Read more... )

I took a walk down to town yesterday.  Which was good, I got out of the house, but bad in two ways.  First, I didn't eat anything before I left, so I made myself rather sick by the time I got home.  This state, of course, was only exacerbated by the original reason I had to get out of the house to begin with (the second reason it was bad).  My ( Read more... )

Guess what I did today?  That's right.  Abso-fucking-lutely nothing.  That's alright though, cause I have to walk down to town tomorrow.  Colin's going to Spain in October, so I'm going to have to be able to get around without anyone's help.  We'll see if I'm capable of that.  I also need to time how long it takes me to get to St. Joseph's so that ( Read more... )

I went down to town yesterday and bought some various little snacks that I wanted.  Pasta being the main one.  And spaghetti sauce.  Dried apricots.  Prawn cocktail crisps (alright, so that's not really something I missed from home, but I really wanted some).  And I bought a transfer cable for my MD.  The audio from the other night sounds just as ( Read more... )

I walked down to the town centre today.  I only got lost once on my way back.  I was searching for some proper leather flats, but couldn't find anything that suited me.  I did, however, manage to get nail polish remover and toothpaste.  The essentials of life.  Next time I'll make it over to Sainsburys and buy some spaghetti sauce, I'm absolutely ( Read more... )