There will be no research leave updates this week, because the master plan advises that May is 'probably a good point at which to take a clear, structured week off'. And this week I am taking that advice.

Holiday Tiems actually started late on Friday afternoon, when I set off for the station to catch a train to Tunbridge Wells for the wedding of swisstone ( Read more... )

I'd never been on a hen-do before yesterday, and I don't think my introduction to the tradition was entirely a typical one either. But I enjoyed myself enormously marking ms_siobhan's impending nuptials.

( Gathering in York )

Three years ago, I pondered what I might do on this auspicious date, but my ambitions did not extend beyond greeting the day at 08:08 (which I have, of course, now done).

Little did I guess that I would be doing so from a house in Leeds, or indeed that I would proceed that afternoon to York to celebrate the civilisation of glitzfrau and biascut. But, nonetheless ( Read more... )

I've just spent a couple of days in England, attending the nuptials of ajntornj and the delightful Lizzy Lee Stuart-Bennett. The wedding actually took place in a converted barn near Henley, although it was a lot nicer than that makes it sound. It was a long, half-timbered hall with dark wood flooring, hung with dried hops in tribute to the fact that it is ( Read more... )

Hmm - with the arrival of another invitation today, I am beginning to feel a bit like a character from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. This is my wedding schedule as it currently stands:

March 28th: p_dan_tic and shewho
August 6th: my cousin Becky and anonymous (to me) gentleman friend
August 12th: ajntornj and Lizzy ( Read more... )