Sorry about the pause people, been completely bogged down at work. I ate a salad yesterday. It was the first green thing to cross my lips since last Tuesday, been living out of a take-away carton. I think I saw god ( Read more... )

Went to lunch with Mike and then off to the park to see MikeSister, MikeNiece and MikeNephew. Children trying their hardest to be sweet, lasted until they realised Misha likes to hare around as much as they do. Terrifying amount of energy. I can't remember being that hyperactive when I was a child- what do they feed them? Mind you, I suppose Nanny ( Read more... )

Got an e-mail from Darren, which was weird. He's apparently doing fine, seeing a nice boy from Crouch End. I should meet him, he's really nice. Thanked me (no mention of S, sorry) for helping him sort his life out. We should go for a drink sometime. A quick FB stalk reveals nice boy from Crouch End is quite nice, and they are indeed very happy ( Read more... )

Got a phone-call from Miranda and a coincidental e-mail from Holly, a couple of girls I knew back in uni. Holly's a teacher now, and Miranda does freelance design work.  We're going to go out for dinner next week, it should be really good times, haven't seen either of them in way too long ( Read more... )

My mother is the only woman in the world who would drive me to murder, I swear. She called up and talked at me for half an hour about Bro's wedding arrangements and Niece's birthday plans. Well, that's what she said she was doing ( Read more... )

My brother and sister think I'm going to die alone ( Read more... )

I owed Greg a cake, so I whipped up a variant on the lemon cake (basically add liberal amounts of raspberries) and took it over there.

It turns out Greg has all the kids. There are some bigger ones, and a couple of interchangable smaller ones, one of whom has an inexhaustible supply of fire-trucks and information about the fire-trucks. (Actually, ( Read more... )

That was pretty much my day at work. Edith was away (sick or something, I don't know) so the final act in the current battle was this massive indoor firework that Young Kevin (who is about the same age as me) got from a 'little Chinese place' of which he refuses to divulge the location. The only English on it was 'PRATY BOBOMB' on the side in ( Read more... )

Okay, that's not strictly true, but their simple joy in shiny things and someone blowing a raspberry on their cheek is pretty good ( Read more... )