It was Easter Monday today, so we went to a restaurant near home, which is set within a nice park type area, with an old water mill. The location is really beautiful, but the restaurant turned out to be terrible ( Read more... )

I'm 39 today - it's a weird thought ( Read more... )

I went out to Jamie's Italian in Angel for a family birthday today. It was an okay place, but we got a waitress who forgot who had ordered what so when she came to tell us that they didn't have the roast I had ordered, she looked right in the face of another member of my party. Surely the usual approach if you're not sure is "Who ordered the beef ( Read more... )

I took the family to my church's carol service today - it was good to have a trip into London, but unfortunately we had some loud teenagers shouting (and drinking) in the carriage, so it wasn't a fun journey. Then we got on the underground and a man started tap dancing (and shouting to passengers) in the carriage; it was a weird sight ( Read more... )

Our train schedule has been changed over the weekend; it's supposed to make things easier, but it's not doing that so far - lots of trains cancelled today and yesterday, and we had to travel home on a packed out service with people who just blocked the doors constantly ( Read more... )

I have to post about what I did yesterday ( Read more... )

I'm finally over the recent bout of norovirus/food poisoning that I was suffering; it's quite a relief, as I was able to go out to lunch with the family and just eat a three-course meal (despite thinking I wouldn't stomach it ( 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... )

The first full day started a bit oddly; at exactly 9am, the fire alarm went off - it seemed to be a false alarm, but I remember coming out of our room and finding a fire door in our way which at first we thought was locked. Luckily, it wasn't - but we found the lifts had been disabled, so we had to take the stairs. They were weird stairs because ( Read more... )

I have just got back from three nights in Bruges. It was really nice out there, and I was sad to leave ( Read more... )