Perhaps slightly less than six years ago, after some kind of conversation that might have taken place on LiveJournal I made an exchange agreement with skiesfirepaved ( who you might know better as herecirm these days ) where we each agreed to send one another a playlist of songs. Both being music obsessives of different - but related - streaks, this seemed like a great ( Read more... )

The girl I love had an anniversary to celebrate and as she hasn't visited the west country much and she is a big fun of crystals, fairies and new-age tat, there seemed an obvious place we could visit if we took a couple of days away:


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I need to write up that clinic before I forget what my notes refer to, but before I do, there is something else I want to talk about:

It is now a little over a year since herecirm moved here. When she moved down in the first place I mentioned that I am conscious that over time you get accustomed to things and something that was remarkable and special at ( Read more... )

So one thing that I have done a bit more of in the last year and a half is writing sentimental songs. I thought I might share the lyrics to the most recent one, but out of regard to those of you who enjoy reading their friends pages I will drop it behind a cut.

( A Dream Called England )

It has been a busy time lately, a few things have changed here. At the end of July my contract came up and I decided not to renew- the environment in the local authority I was working for was a little toxic, a nice group of people in the office, but the department and council in general was chronically mismanaged and their attitude to IT was inept ( Read more... )

The weather has turned at last! I will not complain about being ridiculously hot until I have entirely forgotten how dire the last few months have been.

I have had an awesome couple of weeks as well - the charming herecirm came to visit weekend before last and for the first time in three months, neither of us had any urgent jobs to do or places to be. We ( Read more... )

With my favourite herecirm over to visit, we took Cash out this morning with me riding and her as ground support crew and expedition photographer.
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Gardening Leave is not so bad. It has allowed me some time to do some riding, some teaching and even to dog-sit a little bit. Also got to spend some herecirm time last weekend, which was - as always - an unmitigated pleasure.

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I've been quite busy lately so not updated as much as I would like to so I'm going to cover a few weekends in one update...
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A little over a week ago, herecirm and I set out for a long weekend together on the Gower peninsula, an area I used to visit often when I was at university in Swansea and had been longing to revisit for years. It was a fantastic weekend and I took loads of pictures, which I will now offer you the freedom to ignore through the magic of the LJ Cut.
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