I really have been remiss in updating. I even missed my SS deadline. :-( I've been working on my Middlemarch essay, looking at my god-daughter's Pratchett essay, starting the Fantasy course and reading frantically for that. William Morris's style is easier to read than Stephen Donaldson's. Who would ever have guessed?

( We also went away for the weekend. Multiple picspam ahoy. )

AKA: I took all these photos and I'll share them if it kills you!

( Cut for Sunday picspam )

Going through the stuff in rough chronological order here.

( Cut for much more Estonian picspam )

Yesterday was lovely. The breakfast was enormous - and we were being restrained! Pancakes, fruits and various meats, smoked and pickled fish, bread of all sorts, yoghurts, pastries, coffee that just kept on coming. We were selective but still ridiculously full.

( Cut for some picspam )

We're in Tallinn and the sun is shining. It's a positively balmy 8 degrees (Celsius) and R is due to arrive in twenty minutes!

It's also a birthday day - my lovely husband has a Landmark Birthday (which he is not thrilled about) and it is also the birthday of the lovely and terrifyingly clever brisingamen. May it be a good one ( Read more... )

I seem to have got out of the habit of updating, but this weekend is full of stuff to report on, so it makes sense - to report on last weekend instead. Or first, at least ( Read more... )

Today we got up before eight (does that time even exist on a Saturday? Apparently so) to go down to Bicester, to the birthday party of the gorgeous Miss G, the two-year-old daughter of oxfordia. It was delightful.

( More beneath the cut on toddlers, parties and pubs... )

It's over a week ago now, but on my way home from Yorkshire I decided to stop at a classier place than the service station. I had my National Trust card with me, so I turned left after about an hour.

( and visited Hardwick Hall. Pictures beneath the cut. )

So, today was lazy to start with, but we did go out this afternoon, in search of bread, fuel and such trivia. Oh, and we saw some Art. Not necessarily SFW...

( Much picspam below the cut. )

It takes me a week, sometimes, to sort out pictures and unscramble my brain enough to make a post ( Read more... )