It’s been quite a pleasant festive season so far. I’ve spent time with lots of different friends and family, from work dinners to parties with uni friends, and spent Christmas day with my parents, sister, brother-in-law and nephew. A veritable festive feast of duck and turkey plus lots of playing with 15-month-old Sebastian’s presents (and a bit of playing with my own ones) made for an enjoyable day.Right now I’m on a train up to Sheffield to see my aunt and grandad,which will be grand.
I’ve had some pretty decent presents, with special mention to my secret santa. As with many groups of friends, my closest uni friends and I have a bit of a secret santa tradition, and with a customary limit of £5, it’s normally populated by complete tat designed only to put a smile on the face of the recipient rather than be of any use! But this year saw some good efforts, and I got a CD I actually wanted (the new Counting Crows). Not only had santa managed to find this for under £5, but even had enough spare to buy me a newspaper, in a nod to the year when I received a newspaper and a mars bar from a rather forgetful santa…! Got to love eBay…
New year will be an evening of comedy with some of the same friends at The King’s Head in north London, no doubt accompanied by copious amounts of alcohol. I hope you too have had a great festive period and that 2009 is a great year for us all!
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I’ve just finished my first day on a new project at work, but more on that story another day. In the mean time… Just over a week ago I boarded a train, carrying a large rucksack, bound for Gatwick airport. I was off on holiday; a week’s sailing out of Porto Rosa, Sicily. Blissful, I thought. However things didn’t quite go to plan. What follows is a story of shock, intrigue, injury, danger, stress, pain, manky food, accidental wine, fizzy tea, crazy Duchmen, even crazier Italians and a fair few broken things, including boats, plumbing and bits of my family. This is a very long post, but it’ll be amusing, I promise. And most surprising of all, every word is true… Read the rest of this entry »
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It’s been so long since I posted that my friends are complaining about it through their Facebook statuses. How sad is that? I’ve been very busy, and while I have a couple of interesting (at least to the techies) posts up my sleeve, I thought I’d briefly let you know what’s going in my world. Read the rest of this entry »
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As I mentioned in my last post, I recently went to Amsterdam for a long weekend with an extra special reason – seeing John Mayer (and others) at Picnic in the Park in the Hague. Read the rest of this entry »
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I speak with a certainty known only to the deluded when I say I am sure you will recall my post of March last year entitled Custard and Canal Boats. In it, I told you about my trip to Lisbon, the wonderful desserts I ate there, and the strange discovery of a bus disguised as a canal boat. Well, just over a week ago now, I visited Amsterdam, where I indulged in pancakes (more than once!) and took a trip on a real life canal boat, so I figured it was time for a quick update… Read the rest of this entry »
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