Sunday must mean more snow…

Well, only another inch or snow and it was the light powdery stuff that fell. Nothing is expected tomorrow so my shopping trip to Oxford may now happen. That’s good because I have to buy my Dad another present – someone at his workplace bought things from his Amazon wishlist but not at Amazon! So [...]

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I’m appreciating Canadian snow-clearing so much right now

I’m in England! Ra ra!
Mum was not exaggerating about the snow. Wow. The last time I saw this much was in February 2007 and it melted a day later (photos here. This much snow before Christmas is almost unheard of. The clearance is about what I expected (none) and even the motorway had a bit [...]

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Loving the free wi-fi!

I’m doing that thing other people do that always make me jealous: I am posting from my gate at the airport.
It’s the little things that make me happy.
But anyway. I’m at my gate! I’m going to the UK! Via Boston! And US Customs are scary! And I got selected for extra security screening!
I got here [...]

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Christmas in England – the truth

So, in a little over a week I fly to England for Christmas, weather permitting. (No storms between here, Boston, and England, please)
The funniest thing about this process is everyone’s impression of Christmas in England. I’m quite happy to say that I lived in the south of England and things are different up north and [...]

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Dirty Dancing, Grey’s Anatomy and other stuff

Last night Mum and I decided that we needed to watch Dirty Dancing. I still love that movie so much. The dancing is amazing. The story is great and moving, the music is just right, but it’s the dancing that really captures me. Swayze was fantastic The only gripe I have is that [...]

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Home from vacation

I’m sitting in my kitchen feeling very slightly disconcerted. I got home from work nearly an hour ago, the recycling has been put out, a cup of tea is beside me and I’ve spoken to my aunt yet it’s only 5.30pm and the sun hasn’t even begun to set yet.
Hmm.
Obviously I’d been a little lax [...]

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A week in the life of a holiday

*shuffles feet sheepishly*
Well, it’s not quite a week but near enough
Tuesday I was mostly recovering from Redemption. It needed a lot of recovery.
Wednesday was my day in London with Mum and sis. I’m proud of us: we made it through four yarn stores and only came out with the things that we intended [...]

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Convention: Day 1

Arrived in Coventry a couple of hours ago and I’m settled into my room with paranoidangel42. We have a slight problem in that they just (yesterday) replaced all the locks on the doors and the new keys don’t work very well, but it’s not completely insurmountable. We’ll just have to make sure that one of [...]

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Safely in England

I’m sitting on my parent’s sofa to type this, so I got here safely Hooray!
The cats may never forgive me (Annie refused to look at me for the first five minutes after we got to the cattery, though Kate had settled well when I left) but the flight was smooth and I actually [...]

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Might actually be ready for my trip!

I think that I’m ready to leave tonight. Yesterday’s sense of complete panic has faded rather than getting worse and I’m actually feeling calm about the trip. It’s probably because my bags are as packed as they can be bearing in mind that I needed my purse and keys at work today and, according to [...]

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