So, there's actually been stuff happening that I haven't been posting about. *gasp* No real reason why, other than me being busy getting ready for my trip to Canada and then being on said trip! But in the wake of the deaths of a family friend, my cat, and my employee in early summer, I took some actions - work-related and personal life-related.

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The German Christmas market has just opened for the year; it was nice out today, so it was buuuuuusy. Also, the skating rink is in the middle of town by the Bargate this year - normally it's by City Hall, but they're doing a whole bunch of restoration and construction to the Civic Centre complex, so I guess moving the rink elsewhere seemed a good ( Read more... )

The UK government does a census every 10 years, and the resulting data is then locked for 100 years. It's meant to be a snapshot of UK life as at one Sunday at midnight, every decade. The 1911 census results are being cracked open this year, and we've gotten the 2011 one in the post. It's supposed to be filled out on 27 March. No earlier, and ( Read more... )

I was going to make a post listing things wot are made of win (duh) but as it's thundering rather insistently outside I think I shall cut it short and just point at the tags. :D Them things is made of win right now. I need to go to bed in a minute anyway but what prompted said list was that I was walking to work this morning, kinda bouncy despite ( Read more... )

I don't really know where I'm going with this, just that there's some stuff going on in my head that I need to work through and I do that better on paper, so here goes. Liable to be long, rambly, and potentially emo and/or ranty. ( You've been warned. )

Seeing as it is, just barely, the first here already. I'll finish gathering all my stuff tomorrow and then haul everything to my new place. The only problem with that is, well, I don't have Internet yet. It seems that even with the completely mobile services, you still need a base phone line. Which I don't necessarily object to, although paying a ( Read more... )

It's edged into the eleventh, but I'm still up so it's still Saturday night and therefore Saturday marks one month that I've been in England. (Minus, obviously, the days in Spain. For which I now have my pictures sorted but I'm not done with the write-up yet.) I present a list o'stuff, because it is three o'clock in the morning and my brain is just ( Read more... )