We had the residents' AGM last night; it was incredibly long - 2 and a half hours; it wasn't the most exciting place to be, but at least there was no arguing this time. We were in the back room of this old pub, which apparently was used as a skittles alley in the early 1900s. It's a weird pub that has never served alcohol - all to do with early ( Read more... )

I got my work laptop yesterday; I've been taking it home with me both nights so far, because it may be useful at home - although I can't access any of the shared work drives outside of the office ( Read more... )

On our third day in Bruges, we did a boat trip in the morning. It was nice to not have too many other boats around, although we did also go quite fast. When we got off, an American asked me if I worked for NASA - because he'd seen me wearing my NASA T-shirt the day before. He was telling me all about how he worked on the moon landing programme when ( Read more... )

I've been rubbish at updating this week, but I was in the audience of Pointless on Tuesday ( Read more... )

On Thursday we had a work trip to a recycling facility. We went around it learning all about what work they did, and it was very interesting, although they had a lot of loud equipment that sometimes drowned out what the guide was saying. In one of the first areas, someone was blaring out "Teenage Dirtbag", which turned into an earworm for most of ( Read more... )

Trains have been overall really bad this week so far ( Read more... )

I have a new person sat next to me at work now. I'm looking forward to getting to know her more!

I saw my neighbour who I never see come in our out of her flat today. I didn't get a good look, but I saw her vanishing into her flat as I appeared round the corner. I became aware of her looking at me quite timidly from around the door, like she was afraid of me. I do see a girl sometimes who looks like she's not wanting to speak to others so it ( Read more... )

1) I can't use the nickname "Backward Baseball Cap Guy" for one of the guys who works in my local shop, the two other guys who work there both wear their caps backwards too, and they've both had them on at work when I've seen them ( Read more... )