With the coming of the New Year, quite unlike me, I made very few resolutions and instead made an overall promise that in 2009… things will be better! Although 2008 did bring with it some good stuff, some great stuff even (a diamond ring providing a shining example – excuse pun), it was also unkind to quite a lot of…
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“Don’t forget to give me a ring….”
Something I quite often shout up the stairs to Neil in the morning as I fly out of the door to work, mostly when a decision needs to be made about when the electrician should come, whether we should have sausage and mash when Amanda comes round for dinner, or if I should buy some…
A Promised Post
If I achieve nothing else in this life, I shall at least try and keep my promises. On his wedding day, as I sat lounging on a chair – a free glass of his bubbly in one hand and the remains of a chocolate torte in the other – Chris Maguire mentioned to me that it had been quite a…
Halfway update and a new obsession with root vegetables
Well here I am, at the half way mark of when my dissertation needs to be written by, and needless to say half a dissertation has not yet been written. Still, this was to be expected as anything even remotely related to me always takes the most unlikely of courses, so I would be a…
The end is nigh
This Tuesday I handed in my last ever piece of coursework at Uni (see above) marking the end of an epic battle with deadlines that has consumed my very existence for the past two years. Ok – so I still have a dissertation to write – but no longer will I have to rise at…
I think it’s a sign
I love our basement at work – it is an awesome place and I’ll use almost any excuse to visit its maze of secret passages, gloomy corridors, curious cubby holes and also for a chance to peer at the enormous safe housed down there with its supersized door and chainmail security gate more fitting to…
Life is out there
I have been experiencing a strange sensation of late in which I have lost all concept of time. I only realised it was the beginning of April this week after a colleague cunningly hid a whoopee cushion on my chair…. You see currently my life is organised only by university weeks and when assignments are…
Monday
A little belatedly (the return of the missing no.7 resident has been quite a distraction), here is my account of Monday to complete the ‘my day in four’ series. I took the day off on Monday as I knew with Neil coming home there would be very little chance any work would get done, and…
The Weekend
Where did it go? As you can see I am rather behind with my weekend update – and ‘poor show’ I say being the penultimate post of the ‘my day in four’ series. Please accept my apologies. Saturday I woke on Saturday having had a marvellous sort of sleep – one of those ones where…
Friday
Well…Friday was weird. It started out perfectly normally – alarm went off, lots of grumbling, had an a.m. bath as I couldn’t find the energy to stand up and wash, found some clothes that didn’t shout at each other, explored the food stores to find a sachet of cuppa soup that would do for lunch…