• my diary

    it’s beginning to look a lot like…

    Well after a couple of weeks which for a variety of reasons could only politely be described as fraught, virtually everything that needs doing is finally done and I’m preparing for this years’ Big Trip – yay! Presents have been bought/knitted and wrapped, cards are posted and Tesco.com have been issued with my Christmas demands (potatoes, mostly). Most importantly of…

  • my diary

    ahoy! ahoy!

    And normal service has (almost) been resumed after a couple of weeks of charging around the country, including more pick and mix and zombies in Leeds (too many if you ask me; four films out of five and I’d already seen ‘groundbreaking’ [meh] found-footage anthology VHS which was making up the numbers) charity coat collecting in London and Peri Peri…

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    home (which was nice) and away…

    So finally an ordinary(ish) week; peace, tranquillity and charming punters aplenty arriving from far and wide. Well, the Midlands, South Yorkshire and the Dales, anyway (wherever that is; being one of those parts of the country not easily accessible to non-drivers, I can only speculate). To the gentleman who appeared bearing not only my very favourite M&S iced buns but…