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~ I am so, so lucky that my job enables me, and the bosses permit me, to work from home as I had to stay home today for the plumber to fix our heating situation. We were actually pretty toasty…
Continue reading11:26 Brilliant! The not so nice side to snow. Defunct boiler… 🙁 # 15:06 just has to wait until 8-10 tomorrow morning to hopefully be sorted out with heat and water. Fingers crossed everybody… # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingSlept well last night and got up to a beautiful day with a garden laden thick with snow. Next door gazebo has collapsed – nice! I was really looking forward to going out for a nice walk in the snow…
Continue reading09:35 is both sad not to be playing Christmas carols today, but relieved that I don’t have to let anyone down… # 16:06 has just been for a snowy walk around OX26 in about 8 inches of the stuff… #uksnow…
Continue readingWe got up early (for a Saturday) today to go and play Christmas carols at Millets Farm with Abingdon Concert Band. Over breakfast the snow started coming down, finely but steadily. An hour later and there was a few centimetres…
Continue readingWe’ve actually had the tree up two weeks but I’ve been meaning to post pictures for a while now, especially as this year, our mantlepiece is looking all the more special and perfect, thanks to the 1920s fireplace we got…
Continue reading11:43 is waiting for the total whiteout of snow to arrive from Bicester… #localweatherforecast # 12:02 can report the arrival of snow to OX3 #uksnow # 12:54 is looking out at a winter wonderland whiteout again, yay! OX3 #uksnow #…
Continue reading22:15 has finished my Christmas cards. Next stop, mince pies… 🙂 # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading~ I left work to the 1980s-style computer game, space effect of driving through snow. Snow! Sadly it wasn’t settling, but snow none the less! ~ Marzipanned the Christmas cake tonight. Okay a little bit late, but it will be…
Continue reading10:31 looks to a future house of illustration: Quentin Blake on the art of illustration bbc.in/hOfY7Y via @bbcnews # 20:56 is a quarter of my way through my Christmas cards… # 22:27 has finished about half the Christmas cards, including…
Continue reading~ I’ve been so, so tired this week. I haven’t had a proper lie in for ages, and I’m beginning to run on empty. I need to recharge my batteries. It’s going to have to be Saturday night/Sunday morning. ~…
Continue reading16:12 is looking at a world mapped out by facebook friends… www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11989723 # 16:39 has felt so, so tired all day… # 21:00 is trying to finish my Christmas letter; is trying to do something productive with this day before…
Continue readingAfter the gloriously epic year that was 2009, it has been a quieter 2010 for us in the shire, but none the less enjoyable for all of that. After three years of uncertain change things have settled down. I continue…
Continue reading~ It was Emma’s birthday today. I got up earlier than usual and made Emma a proper breakfast laid up to the table with her cards and a few presents, and we had a nice relaxing start to the day…
Continue reading23:02 is looking at the status bar and I’m guessing its about 30% there… #waitingforuploads # 00:24 has ordered the ‘unofficial’ wedding album. Now I can concentrate on those Christmas cards… # 09:00 needs to ice two cakes and marzipan…
Continue reading~ Got up early today, especially to have time to ice two birthday cakes and marzipan the Christmas cake, and then had more time than I thought because, having successful iced the two birthday cakes I remembered, after looking for…
Continue reading~ Emma, aka , has been spending the day with her Dad, and so I have been left home alone with a couple of projects to occupy me. The first of which was to sort out something that is more…
Continue reading14:49 has compiled another book… #unofficialweddingalbum # 22:40 wonders how long it will take to upload a 220MB PDF file? Hrmm, maybe I should go and marzipan the xmas cake whilst I wait… # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingWell almost! 🙂 Upon getting back home from work this evening I found the house smelling deliciously of vanilla; was making fudge. Not to be outdone by this creativity in the kitchen I set to making not one, but two…
Continue reading10:43 still amused by the placard seen yesterday amongst the student fees march in Trafalgar Square: ‘Free European transport’ – wrong demo? # 11:52 Vote: Friday Song 7 – Bangtail Feathers for Friday Song of The Year 2010! t.co/yW6ZavW Email…
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