A very small and sad update. My gran (nenny we called her) that I spoke of in my new year post, passed away very suddenly on the 9th ( Read more... )

Well a very Happy and Healthy New Year to you all. I may have missed sending festive greetings and its a few days in but well meant never the less ( Read more... )

I'd love to have a brilliant excuse but really its just the usual life stuff. Work has been hectic and then we had the youth work/exchange to factor in as well, and also a couple of youth residential trips too ( Read more... )

Ok so its been a long time this go around. Usual stuff really, health not been good and then when it recovered I've been piled under with work ( Read more... )

Well the world didn't end on the solstice so yay, hasn't stopped the doom merchants mumping on about the calculations being wrong etc etc. You'd think when they were doing those calculations they'd check and realise they were basing everything on an outdated Mayan calendar and that the doom theory was from some crack pot centuries later...but oh ( Read more... )

.....And its likely to be a few more. And while I've been gone, I've heard LJ is at its nonsense again,but seeing how I mainly use this for reading/seeing other people's creativity, I will wait and see how many people relocate before making my mind up what to do ( Read more... )

Ok cue the obligatory 'still here' post of August. Survived the many flights of the youth exchange and had a great time, Italian group very nice and hopefully will be long term partners along with the usual German group ( Read more... )

Less than a week to go before I head off to Germany with my youth work job to take them for another youth exchange. Still terrified of flying and we have two flights to take each way so four in total...joy ( Read more... )

Hmm ok so I didn't get the job at the museum (did wonder if it was an internal thing when I first saw it anyway) but I've ended up working there anyway.....confused yet ( Read more... )

Seriously how many languages am I going to have to start learning only to throw away and have to start on another ( Read more... )