Does anyone else save up their sicknesses for holidays?

Robert and I do.

No sooner than we're starting to pack for Crown (have flights, arrangements to crash, plans for visiting) than he starts to sneeze and snort...
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Typical explosion of unpacking in the living room, and grateful flopping all round. Robert had to head in to work today, but I booked myself a day. Seeing the drah-ma I left behind in the office, I'm glad to allow enough time for the IT fiasco to sort itself ( Read more... )

The past couple of weeks have been full of company chez nous ( Read more... )

We're now registered for spring Crown tourney, just have to figure out how to get there. Oh, and tell the crown.

Site looks amazing - I didn't realise there were any castles to speak of in Sweden. Awesome. Even the website for the event looks well planned.

We've decided to aim for early arrival (w/ slightly cheaper fares), and are hoping to throw ( Read more... )

For all that the SW quarter of the country is under water, and people are still risking their lives driving through floods over roads, there was sunshine at lunchtime. Not as brilliant and crisp as in the icon, but noticeable. Parts of the park were swamped so my run was shortened, but I was still out for half an hour or so. Knee ached, but not as ( Read more... )

It's strange feeling both at home, and a foreigner, in two countries, which is how I feel upon returning to my Thamesreach home ( Read more... )

Coronation this past weekend: brilliant. Reasonable travel (it's worth paying for real airlines, IMO, for non-stupid flight dep/arr times); wonderfully hospitable Finnish event staff looked after us; fed and watered and coffeed very well; successful ceremonies almost entirely as planned and pictured, in a beautiful lakeside setting.

The best ( Read more... )

Another trip to the homeland likely, probably next week. Have to see Mum, and her condition, for myself.

Going oop north while still coughing was a mistake.
Coughed the whole time there, coughed all the way back, coughed my way to another week off work.
Hurrah - not.
Went to the GP last week, who said, yes, you've got a bad cough, no question - though chest was clear, no sign of secondary infections.
SO: more sofa, more laying about. It would be nice, if ( Read more... )

Thursday - crack of dawn departure for morning flight. Gatwick is so much closer than Heathrow! and smaller scale, and less faff generally. It's small enough that we can board from both ends of the plane, via the tarmac, which you don't generally do at bigger airports.
Uneventful trip, snooze en route, start beading a veil - there's a depiction of ( Read more... )