Things are going... not so well at the moment. Well, bits are going well - I actually have something approaching a social life outside the PC! But other bits... Not so much. The house is still barely liveable, my sisters ex-boyfriend (the one with the heart problem?) died suddenly a few weeks ago (my mother took in really hard, she'd practically ( Read more... )

Andrew left at 4am yesterday morning. I got a call at about 10pm that he'd arrived in Cape Town ok. He's hitting the ground running - he's going into work today to get a headstart on Monday! Don't envy him one bit. Still, his weather should be better than ours. According to the BBC Weather, it's partly cloudy, with a maximum of 25C, as opposed to ( Read more... )

I am so behind on everything... I have about 2 months worth of emails & PM's to sort through... If you contacted me, I'll try & reply as soon as I can ( Read more... )

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We bought a new cat bed the other day, a fake-fur fluffy thing, becuase Sneak had been a little down & I wanted to cheer him up. He *adores* it. On the day he got it, we were woken up at about 5am by his "upset" meow (the one he usually does when he has an upset tummy ( Read more... )

Haven't been online for weeks really, just haven't felt in the mood... And, in my absence, I found my forum had been hacked by some juvenile script kiddie... Grrr.... He didn't do any major damage, not the smartest "HAX0R" in the world, but it is an annoyance... Andrew is having a field day with it though, because he now gets to fix the database ( Read more... )

You know, I use this journal so rarely now that I've only just noticed the background image is missing. Must have been part of the clean-up when I uploaded by new layout, I don't know, ages ago... 26 May, according to my site updates ( Read more... )

We're up North, so we're ok. I have several friends who live down there, including one who usually gets off the train at Moorgate, so I was a little panicked, but everyone has checked in & they're all ok ( Read more... )

from holiday ( Read more... )

Yep... Off to Cape Town for a couple of weeks. It's Andrew's birthday on 3 Jan, the big 3 0, & we timed the holiday to coincide.

Haven't even started packing & we leave for the airport at 3am!!! (flight is at 6am, not normal at all).

I should go pack...

Happy New Year to everyone, in advance :)