After a grumbling start I feel I've eased back into the routine. My moaning really isn't unusual, my biggest gripe being not anything to do with working itself, just the large amount of my life it takes up in proportion to my free time. It's not forever though and I genuinely feel incredibly positive and happy with my life ( Read more... )

Hey LiveJournal! I have a couple of weekends' worth of life to update on ( Read more... )

Sometimes it takes me a very long time to convince myself to try something new, for me to come round to an idea, if I have some anxieties surrounding it. I think I'd been considering commuting to work by bike for over a year; ever since I first moved to Moseley. I live in one suburb of Birmingham, just out from the city centre, and I work in ( Read more... )

Friday night David and I actually tried to stop being middle aged for once and go out for drinks in Moseley. We were going to get some food in a restaurant, but they all seemed to be full, so we ended up in O'Neill's pub which was actually bloody nice. We shared a starter and dessert and everything was very tasty, and cheap too! The only down side ( Read more... )

Must finish this entry about the weekend-before-this-one-just-gone, eek!

I'm becoming spoiled with the frequent lovely trips away recently. Four weeks since my last lovely trip to Dorset a bank holiday came around very quickly, and so I tacked a day's annual holiday allowance on the end to extend it to a four-day break from work.

One sunny day a ( Read more... )