This Christmas was the first one either Nicky or I had spent without our family, so it was a bit strange, and we had to start all of our own traditions. We're currently on the bus on the way back to London from a couple of days at my Mum's, and it's helpfully equipped with wifi, so I thought now would be the perfect time for an LJ Christmas post.

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A bit of a self-reflective post today. Somewhat due to the fact that my baby sister turned five a couple of days ago, I've been thinking quite a lot about my life, and how much I've changed in the last five years ( Read more... )

lol blog every day in April FAIL ( Read more... )

I know it's March and therefore I'm over two months late for this, but it's my seventh year of doing the end of year meme, and I'd miss it if I didn't.

( 2009 - Here goes! )

i know it's been ages again since i updated, so here's a potted history of what i've been doing for the last month ( Read more... )

liz's dad is visiting from Spain for a week, so i've moved from a double mattress on liz's living room floor to a double mattress on my friend from work keith's living room floor. it's inflatable and very comfy, although i keep lying on a random bit of velcro. my brain drifts out of sleep, registers there's something wrong and goes "ouch what the ( Read more... )

the other day i'd put something in the microwave here to heat up, and then made some comment about how liz looked taller than me. we were standing there in the middle of the kitchen arguing about who was taller, measuring up against each other, completely not noticing anything going on behind us until laura suddenly said "um guys? is it supposed to ( Read more... )

i overheard a conversation yesterday that was straight out of an advert, it was brilliant. three women were standing outside covent garden tube, all wearing heels. one of them said "well we need to get to such-and-such a place, it's quite nearby, shall we take the tube or shall we walk?" her friend was like "i'm wearing Clarks, i could walk for ( Read more... )

today i'm mostly laughing at the fact that London has completely shut down due to the six inches or so of snow, it's brilliant. no buses, no trains, part-suspended tube lines... half the call centre called in sick this morning so just about everyone in the business was taking calls - random members of the sales and IT teams, my team, the operations ( Read more... )

i've just got back from a random spontaneous midnight adventure with Greg and two of his friends, climbing all over the Surrey countryside so Greg's friend could take night-time photographs. she got some really good shots of the moon, silhouettes of trees and beautiful orangey (smog-filled) skies, it was fun. oh, and i peed in the woods for the ( Read more... )