lmao, after failing my driving test I went camping with mates and I promptly screwed up my leg and am now on crutches. Dude! It doesn't rain but it pours. I'm getting an X-ray on Wednesday.

On the bright side my mum got home from Japan yesterday and brought several squashed packages of melon-pan! Yum. <3

I'm actually in pretty high spirits ( Read more... )

Over six hours of bagpacking we managed to raise just under £1200 for the cause! Wow! It was a great day and generally, people were very generous. Many invisible thanks to all of them, and may karma reward them most lovingly!

It was pretty much the entire local Japanese community doing it-- my mum has this network of Japan Mums that all get together ( Read more... )

So! Lambing season is just beginning in Somerset and I spent a lot of today helping out on George's farm, though we didn't get as many as we thought. About ten singles and ten doubles overall. One ewe gave birth to quads! Unfortunately, none of the four survived-- too premature-- but the ewe's adopted a pair of lambs whose mother died. Those little ( Read more... )

In the shop today we had an American couple in. They were going to a wedding and I was helping the lady with deciding a dress and having it fitted. To get the conversation flowing I asked one of those questions that pops up a lot in our shop-- "So, whereabouts is the wedding ( Read more... )

We had Canadians in the shop the other day!

Their accents were so damn cute!

Not long to go before the shop closes now. I'm searchin' high and low for a new job.

And my driving test is officially in less than a month. Eek!

Most of you probably know that I am a total London nerd. In my writing, whenever London is involved, it's one of the few things I write with as much accuracy as possible (and man, some of the time-travel discrepancies I have in Timeless is... well, it hardly bears thinking about!). Today I was so glad to go to London, and more than that, all by ( Read more... )