We had the most delicious tea in our Advent Calendar today- White Tea with Passion Flower (or Passion de Fleurs which just sounds better :-P). I'm not always big on very flowery teas but this was just what I needed to sooth my slightly fractured nerves (two visits to the dentist in one day might get it over quickly but doesn't lead to a relaxed ( Read more... )

It's been a very full weekend! Yesterday I drove to Gloucestershire for a university reunion- totally unofficial just a bunch of us who used to hang around in the chaplaincy getting together for food and drinks and trips to the park and a walk up a VERY steep hill. Of course because we're all old now there were an alarming number of children around ( Read more... )

It's been a long day of ups and downs. Work started with us being told a thing that is going to make my life harder but then the day itself wasn't so bad? And I spent this evening baking St Nicholas biscuits for tomorrow (some for us and some for my uni friends who I'm visiting tomorrow because A is back from Australia and I'm so excited to see her ( Read more... )

Started learning our Christmas music at choir last night- we're singing No Small Wonder which I absolutely adore but which is (unsurprisingly) quite hard.

( Sight reading irritations leading into a minor choir rant )

Is there anything more annoying than finding an awesome present (for yourself or someone else) and then realising that shipping is literally more than the cost of the thing itself? BAH ( Read more... )

I've seen a couple of people doing this challenge on facebook & LJ (none on instagram because I still don't really believe instagram is a site for anything except posting pictures on twitter... I mean I KNOW people use it in its own right but that fact has never really sunk in for me). ANYWAY. It looks fun so I'm going to have a go.


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