I can't believe it's only a week until NaNoWriMo! Nicky is saying that she'll do it with me this year, which would be awesome! Can't wait.

We've had a really busy couple of weeks. I've been travelling around for work (travelled 19 hours over two days last week!), our friend Rachel came to stay with us, and Nicky's mum has been up for a couple of ( Read more... )

Liz and Laura came to stay with us last weekend! We had country ales in various country pubs, went out for afternoon tea, visited the castle and Laura got rather snuggly with a knight! It was an awesome weekend, we can't wait for them to come back!


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We've had a very busy week, filled with visitors! It's awesome that people actually want to come and stay with us, but we're not used to it yet - no one wanted to come when we lived in Lewisham!

Dad arrived from Canada last weekend and stayed with us overnight before going back down south for a week of business meetings. We really enjoyed showing ( Read more... )

We went to Coventry on Saturday to buy our Blaze jerseys, but the youth in charge of the shop looked absolutely terrified at the thought of customers and asked us to come back on pretty much any other day when someone else would be in charge, so we went to the British Heart Foundation furniture shop across the road instead and had a look at their ( Read more... )

We have a glut of green tomatoes at the moment as my mum came over last week and tamed our huge mess of tomato plants into beautifully neat individual stalks tied to canes. We managed to fill a whole wheelie bin full of tomato plant foliage, but saved some of the nicest looking tomatoes. Unfortunately since they were all hidden under leaves before ( Read more... )

Firstly, here's a photo of the icicles outside the living room window yesterday morning that I forgot to post. They were huge!


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It's taken me absolutely ages to get over my jetlag this time for some reason - I've only just stopped waking up in the night over the last couple of nights. It's NaNoWriMo month, and even though I've been looking forward to it since last November, I haven't really felt motivated this year. I was thinking about this, and realised that I'm still ( Read more... )

We were eating breakfast at the kitchen table this morning, whilst Dad and Sue were taking the kids to school, watching a huge flock of seagulls gathered around something in the sea (probably the remains of an orca kill, according to the whale expert we asked later in the day), when they suddenly all flew up at once. This was a bit weird, so we got ( Read more... )

We had a very lazy morning packing up, doing some laundry and checking out of the hotel, and Dad and Dylan met us about midday. We went straight to Science World which was fab - my favourite bits were a machine that beat a drum in time with your pulse when you held your hands on the sensors, and a harp with invisible infra-red strings! The 'Body ( Read more... )