Brighton today was very VERY fine, although I am now an INCREDIBLY sleepy Xanthe ( Read more... )

Today was again quite full. I was up at around eight, but then bopped around in my jamas until I realised that it was ten past eleven so getting dressed was now a matter of some urgency as I had a dentist appointment at half past. However, as my dentist is conveniently just round the corner (on the same road as the doctors) I was neither late nor ( Read more... )

Huzzah! Huzzah! *excited bouncing ( Read more... )

Talking to my Auntie R earlier, the UCAS points tariff came up (as it so often does in conversations...all the time...yes...) and, as I am procrastinating, I decided to look up how many points I had. 660 apparently, owing to my having done 5 and a half A-Levels in a burst of enthusiasm, or possibly just insanity. One of the 5 is General Studies ( Read more... )

ENTRY BY THE IMAGINARY GIRAFFE ( Read more... )

So, this morning - two hours of Russian history, ohne Ellie, my partner-in-revolutionary-crime. *lesigh* We were watching Sergei Eisenstein's 'October', which is very interesting, but very hard to follow - not least as it features lots of seemingly identical shots of people waving guns around. [Incidentally, I think I have solved the whole "the ( Read more... )

Well the new year managed to arrive safely without any assistance from rosie_rah & me, who were safely in bed + possibly even asleep. *nods ( Read more... )

I have a tree. It is about 7' tall, at a conservative estimate, which is quite a lot of tree for one smallish Xanthe. Well, and Giraffe, obviously. She is very keen on the idea of an indoor tree, and took quite a lot of convincing it is NOT to be snacked on, even if there is "plenty to go round ( Read more... )

I think, according to one of the GPs at Newnham Walk, I am a NORTY girl ( Read more... )

I seem to have somehow developed a small HERD of giraffes, the leader & queen of which, is, obviously, the imaginary giraffe... However, a census taken this afternoon revelealed that the IG aside, my room is home to: 3 giraffe magnets, the giraffe (I mean draft) excluder, three giraffes on my rucksack, the wooden giraffe Chloe got me when she went ( Read more... )