We went to Steve Lines' wedding on Saturday. Steve is one of Si's old friends from University. It was a superb do up in Nottingham, in a lovely venue with great food and a seemingly unlimited supply of free drink. Congratulations to Steve and Sarah! It was also great to catch up with Neil and Kate (and Neil's florescent yellow trainers ( Read more... )

And so yay verily etc... lately we've been to Paul Clement's wedding, which was a Sittingbourne treat. A great day and a very nice church, plus we had a good time at the reception. Paul and Treena were happily married and it was an honour to be invited really. The only downer was that Paul and Jody's kids were being a bit of a handful - you can't ( Read more... )

It's occurred to me that there's no reason for all of my blogs to have a title. Admittedly, having a single title means that usually I have to keep to a unifying theme and that I won't witter on so much about nothing in particular, or move from one subject to the next without trying to link them. The problem is that the title is often an initial ( Read more... )

Congratulations to David and Nicola, who got married this weekend ( Read more... )

The terrible choice. On the one hand, we are committed to going to a friend's wedding party this weekend. On the other, our parents have bought us tickets to see Elton John in Watford. Unfortunately I forgot about this and I was only reminded the other day. Sadly we had to turn down Elton John. We might get another chance to see Elton live, or any ( Read more... )

My weekend was extended by an extra day's leave ( Read more... )

There's nothing like that end-of-term feeling. 'Demob Happy' you could call it. The Easter weekend, combined with Matt's wedding reception, has resulted in a five day break from work ( Read more... )

Just a quick blog to say we had a lovely time at Phil and Emma's wedding this weekend. Here's the lovely couple cutting the cake.


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I don't even have proper hay fever, I just get the standard sniffles. There are people out there whose eyes stream, noses bleed and go through real agony. That said, it does get in the way of trying to work if you have to turn away from your desk and sneeze eight times every half hour ( Read more... )

What a weekend! The weather was as dreary as a nice episode of Serenity, wasn't it? Though I suppose you probably like Serenity and it's drab brother, Battlesnooze Greylactica.


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