So um yes, I bought a house. What shall I do with it?

It's in Germany and has apple trees in the garden.

So I said, "Badger Badger Badger"

And she said, "Mushroom Mushroom"

And I was all, "See! Finally! Someone who shares my cultural background!"

(And then she said, "gosh, I haven't heard that since I was in Year 7". But anyway. BADGER BADGER BADGER).

1. What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before?

( and so it goes on )

complete

PS I might write my annual update sometime soon, but if you want to know, I am off to France on Monday to seek my fortune.

I got post! To my address! It contained an address book! Send me your address and I'll put it in my address book and send you a postcard! How about that? I have screened the comments so that the rest of the internet cannot send you a postcard. How about that?

(If you are clarehooper, you do not need to send me your address because I HAVE IT ALREADY. This is ( Read more... )

I couldn't make LJ lay this out how I wanted, so have a pdf: Notes from a small island.

The Isles of Scilly are in the Atlantic Ocean, 28 miles off Penzance. Today I can barely see the other islands in the archipelago, never mind the mainland ( Read more... )

It's nearly a year since I got back to UK, and I kind of made a book about my travels. There's quite a lot of it but if anyone is interested in dipping in for a page or two I made an accessible-ish online version here: http://maircrosoft.com/doom/html/png/


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My clock says in small print, ©1985 American Greetings Corporation. On its cardboard face - by now rather sticky and dirty - are five carebears playing among rainbows. I've liked this clock enough to have hauled it with me through the last ten years, and now it's residing with me in Bradford-on-Avon. It's a little piece of home, this clock. When ( Read more... )

Ride report from the Way of the Roses in flip-book form http://t.co/Phvht26v
(Uncaptioned photos at http://maircrosoft.shutterfly.com/pictures/841)