We're back from our Scandinavian mini-tour ( Read more... )

Just been for a pub meal with work to celebrate my departure tomorrow. I'm a big fan of being bought free food and booze so it was good. I'm now struggling to stay awake at my desk. I'd drink some coffee to wake me up but I'm far too full of chilli and beer :(

I want to get a new piercing but have no idea where to go.... does anyone know of anywhere decent in Cambridge or Brum (or maybe even Manchester)? I'd be interested in other places I guess but those are the places I'm going to be able to get to in the next couple of weeks.

Any suggestions?

I bought an accordion.

YEAH!

I guess I must finally be local! Steph was out on Saturday night so I went to the pub down the road to play darts and have a couple of quiet pints and ended up at a lock in till 1.30am, which obviously isn't that late but when last orders is called for 11pm it's a reasonable bit of extra drinking. Played darts with some American air-force guys ( Read more... )

Last weekend was great. We spent Friday sitting by the river in Cambridge eating M&S jelly, drinking cider and playing DS with people. On Saturday we drove to Leicester to drop off birthday presents for Steph and then on to Wolverhampton to see my family. We met my parents at Dudley Zoo for more picnic fun and lots of chances to use my new ( Read more... )

I've been back in Leicester since Tuesday staying at Steph's parents (without Steph). Today I went back to Leicester Uni and taught a one day practical to the MSc Bioinformatics students. It was really weird going back to my old course but being on the other side of the student/teacher divide. It went pretty well and I even get paid for it by ( Read more... )

I had the best weekend. Went to see The Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D at the local art cinema on Friday. I'd never seen it before and seeing it in it's full dual projection glory for the first time was pretty cool and it being an arts cinema I was even able to enjoy a pint of guinness whilst watching ( Read more... )

Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the buttocks of Stephen.

Good King Wenceslas
from the Christmas Song Generator.

Played my first "gig" at an open mic night at Churchill College in Cambridge. We turned up mob handed and loaded with a mixer, speakers, bass amp, 2 mics, synth, 3 guitars, violin and a tambourine. It's a good job we did too as the equipment provided turned out to be an out of tune piano and a solitary accoustic. We were able to let everyone use ( Read more... )