I've been away in Margate for a few days and I did that thing where I hung all my hopes on it as being my chance to rest, recuperate and become super effective again which of course is STUPID because it was literally 3 nights. But I liked Margate a lot and I did do some resting and I might tell you about it if my brain can stop discussing methods ( Read more... )

Lots of people are saying January was very long, which I suppose it was, but with a great big deadline looming halfway through 2018 I fear this year may also vanish in the blink of an eye for me ( Read more... )

Not sure I approve of it being November at all tbh but apparently it is whether I like it or not so here are October's books. Managed to read a bit more this month and get to the theatre a couple of times and even to the cinema (Thor Ragnarok) so some culture along the way :-)

• The Ship - C.S. Forester
  
• New Boy - Tracy Chevalier
  
• One Day in the Life ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty amazing & busy few days around here. Dad & I walked the (possible) route of the Walbrook through London on Friday including finding the building site on top of the remains of The Theatre on Curtain Road, visiting the Bank of England Museum and meeting a very chatty man in St Stephen Walbrook. The trip culminated in Dad finding a ( Read more... )

I'm not ready for it to be July. I'm not ready for it to be 2016. I would very much like a do-over for reasons of politics and just life in general but apparently that's not allowed so it's lucky there have been some wonderful distractions in the last couple of weeks (Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, Pride in London, The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, ( Read more... )

I am absolutely not coping with being a grown up at the moment (just for the record) but apparently that's not a thing you can take a break from. Currently I am placing internal bets on which area of my life will come crashing down first or whether I'll manage to sneak through with everything a little battered but intact. HOW IS IT SEPTEMBER ( Read more... )

Slowly wilting in the heat :-/ at least my office has windows at both sides so we've got a bit of airflow but my brain is definitely working more slowly than usual. Meanwhile the photocopier has started throwing up errors and I've been in one meeting after another most of the morning ( Read more... )

I want to write about Terry Pratchett but I don't really know where to begin ( Read more... )

Well we have everyone home (although not entirely well) and the Crib Service was PACKED but surprisingly calm given how packed it was. We've just had our last Advent reading followed by The Night Before Christmas <3 and now it's the calm bit before I head off to church again for the Midnight Eucharist.

#SeasonsReadings

24. For Father Christmas ( Read more... )

The news today has been unremittingly bleak- the top three BBC stories right now are all about deaths and then there are several few about protests :-/ Personally my day started at 2am with a call from our work alarm company which I then worried about for ages because there was nothing I could do. I live too far away and had been drinking so couldn ( Read more... )