Hand luggage has been packed. I'm hoping that nobody looks too carefully at the weight of my hand luggage or asks me to unpack my 'purse'. I don't think that most people carry 320GB external hard drives in their purse ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went up to London to meet up with my sister for sushi and yarn shopping. As we weren't due to meet up until 6pm and I didn't fancy trawling through trains during the rush hour, I decided to go up a couple of hours early ( Read more... )

Today I am feeling much better and I have plans to go into London for supper with my sister, yarn trawling in John Lewis (yay!) and possibly a quick stop in the British Library so that I can say that I've been. I have also spent the morning bagging up a huge stack of magazines for the tip. Go me ( Read more... )

There is a scene towards the end of Man in the Iron Mask (the newer one, not the Richard Chamberlain 70s version) where the Four Musketeers (and Phillipe) decide to make one final charge on the younger musketeers and the King Louis. The young musketeers fire everything they have at our heroes, shots go everywhere and the smoke from the muskets ( Read more... )

I have packed, I have printed route maps and I have updated the iPod with the latest podcasts. I am now ready for my trip to North Wales to climb Snowdon.

With any luck, by this time on Friday I will be sitting in the hotel bar marvelling at how wonderful the climb was :-)

See you all on Sunday!

I went on our second proper training walk for Snowdon. It was five miles long and a bit tougher than Monday's, involving a few more climbs including the steepest climb in the area. As we live in one of the hillier areas of England, it takes a bit for us to be impressed by hills :-) I was really pleased that I made it up that climb without stopping ( Read more... )

Today has been a quiet day at home, catching up on stuff that I've recorded and doing lots of knitting. A new project has been cast on and I've got a bit more work done on the blanket. In fact, the blanket now has two completed rows plus some patches. It's looking beautiful. Um, very little has been done for the move. Oops. And I've not been in an ( Read more... )

I have comments to reply to, but that will happen tomorrow. Right now ( Read more... )

Now that I can officially say that the move is happening this year (early August, for those who have missed the billion references to the date) I've started a list of things that I want to accomplish before I leave the country. I thought that it might be a good idea to a) list them here and b) post an account of the event when I do it. I shall try ( Read more... )