I've got a spare moment, and I want to get back to writing, so this seems a good way to start. How are things with me, anyway ( Read more... )

I made the trip down to South Wales for the Jackals' event last weekend. I'd had some trepidation about the timing of it, as it was coming right around the time that Allie's visa should be coming through (or, indeed, being rejected by some twat in some office somewhere for having a comma in the wrong place), but then the universe decided that it ( Read more... )

A very good event. I'd been looking forward to it for ages, and it was all I'd hoped for and more. I've not had the best time of it recently, and it felt like the end of that period, and the opportunity to just have an amazing time with people it's always a glorious privilege to hang about with. Here's a hot-or-not list ( Read more... )

Another post, another 'so, it's been a while since I last posted' beginning ( Read more... )

Not much to report. In January I've been mostly skint, relatively content, was quite stressed about Allie's visa stuff. That seems mainly sorted now. The plan for getting to Gwyn and Lucy's wedding has taken shape, and my jealousy at all the fun the cool kids must have had on the stag and hen nights has faded a little ( Read more... )

So I managed to get through a birthday without some great calamity happening for, ooh, the second year in a row ( Read more... )

So my New Year's was pretty good- a little quiet, just some chinese food round a friend's flat, and out to Edinburgh's Meadows to watch the Fireworks from afar. This worked out well, as we got the highlights of Edinburgh's street party, without actually having to be AT the street party ( Read more... )

Oh, bugger it, I was going to post something long, self-indulgent and sentimental but LJ just crashed and ate it. Bare bones, then.

I went to Yorkshire for Christmas with my folks. I stayed here, it was awesome and there was a LOT of sledge-riding in a beautiful snowy landscape.

Just in case anyone doesn't know, I'm engaged, to a very nice American ( Read more... )

I really hate the build-up to Christmas ( Read more... )

I seem to be really politicised at the moment, but listen to those boos. Well done, Question Time Audience ( Read more... )