I'm not a big fan of strenuous physical activity, but not everyone in my family has such a high level of sanity. For example, my cousin is undertaking the 100 Cols Challenge, a cycle ride which makes the Tour de France look easy (OK, slight exaggeration, but it is harder than Le Tour). Anyway, he's doing it for charity, in aid of Cancer Research UK ( Read more... )

Ack! A whole week sans internet - the Mardi Gras carnival had everything shut down Monday to Wednesday this week (which also means that the postcard-substitute letters I've sent won't even have been picked up until today, and thus have almost no chance of beating me home). As regards carnival itself, I shall simply draw your attention to the old ( Read more... )

I was going to post a vaguely long entry, but the AZERTY keyboard in this internet café (which took an hour of wandering around Fort de France to find) makes typing a bit of a pain. Instead I'll type stuff up on my iBook to post when I get home. Brief summary: Air France long haul has bugger all leg room. My (younger) sister's new boyfriend is 30 ( Read more... )

So, I spent last week chez mes parents in the south of France.

Short version: Heat. Books. Pool. Wine. Food.

( Long Version )

So, finally here's my opportunity to bore you all with details of what I've been doing for the last month or so. Well, selected highlights thereof. This being part the first, so hopefully windows can do less damage than when it crashed and lost the whole lot...

( Birthday )

I'm off to the south of France for Xmas with the parents. Hopefully it will be at least a degree or two warmer there. I'll be back online in the office on Monday. Thanks to all of you who I've had cards from: addedentry, clepsydra, expetesso, heidi8, hermorrine, ickleronniekins, imc, jiggery_pokery, kay_taylor, maggie_malfoy, nmalfoy, sofie_elisabeth, wednesdayschild & wimborne.

And for those of you who haven't seen it, here's my fandom card design - in Glorious Technicolor!

( It's Xmas Time! )