blah blah blah stuff ( Read more... )

Parentals are returned. They apparently have a hundred pictures of cherry blossom. I have managed to avoid these so far. I was quite sociable last night. Go me ( Read more... )

Today I spent over five hours at the flat, painting on goo and stripping off wallpaper and painting on primer and stripping off goo-ed stuff. I am really freaking sore now so I am running myself a bath ( Read more... )

I just waved off sister and brother-in-law - other sister left a little earlier. They came yesterday and today we did a bunch of stuff at the flat. Including using the horrible chemicals other sister bought for me earlier. So, much progress has been made, and it was quite clean at one point, though after that the melted paint got stripped. Goo ( Read more... )

The parentals ought to be in Japan by now. They left early-early Sunday morning. I was awake then. I have slept quite a lot since, so I am awake at a silly hour today, but I have fed the cats and put the bin out and I plan on going over to the flat and doing stuff ( Read more... )

I have just about recovered from the weekend, and my sister is now Mrs H. Basically, ate too much, drank too much, read a poem without falling over, played too much Rock Band (seriously, instead of dancing there were games consoles), and drank some more.

( blah blah blah about wedding and entire weekend )

It was K's house-warming/cooling (they moved in a few months ago and were waiting until they got settled but now they have to move out again) and there was lots of cake and it was good cake and I ate too much and also I drank a bit too much wine but that let me talk to people so ho-hum. And doze in the car on the way back which was good because one ( Read more... )

Saturday was my sister's hen night. We had a meal at a nice little restaurant (I had a Peking pizza - roast duck and plum sauce - yum) that doesn't have a liquor licence, so you bring your own. G brought twelve bottles of wine for tasting, to pick which ones to serve at the wedding. Most of us got rather drunk. I woke up with mysterious bruises, a ( Read more... )

Did you know that slugs can pull in their horns? I think it's a defence mechanism, so you can't tell which end is the important one, and it just looks like a lump of slime. Pretty cool to watch. I discovered as much when I rescued one from the shower. Again ( Read more... )

Argh. Bit of a hell-week, and all my own fault, as per usual. Started out failing to go to shops, get prescription, or do laundry - damn, am out of clean knickers. Gah. Anyway ( Read more... )