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Today is the Emma’s and my one year anniversary†. One year ago today, I cycled into Bicester for our first date in Pizza Express, and she saw my blue eyes as they whizzed past. Who’d have thought that one year…
Continue readingToday, it was brought home to us, how completely and utterly unlike last April this April is. Last year, at this time we were bathing in gorgeous and warm sunny weather and the bluebells were already out. I know this…
Continue readingEmma has just arrived. 🙂 I wasn’t expecting her until the concert tomorrow night, but whilst on the bus back from Oxford I had a text message. She’s been really missing me. By the time I had driven back home…
Continue reading1. commented today that it has been almost a whole month since I last posted. If you are reading this, you will by now know that my threat of mega-spamming my friend’s friends pages has come true.† 2. I have…
Continue readingAs I begin my sixth year of writing here, it seems that I should start on this day with something a bit different. Today I sent and received my first valentine card. 🙂 I left work promptly to get home…
Continue readingOn the 31 December 2006 Emma made a pact with her sister Helen and Helen’s boyfriend Nicholas, that the next year, they would be there; they would go up to London too to see the fireworks. In the end Helen…
Continue readingToday was mostly taken up with taking a (beastly wet) drive down to Fareham with Emma and her sister for Sunday lunch with Grandma and Aunty Gill who was over from the States (yes, Emma too has relatives in the…
Continue readingThatâs the problem with having really great weekends like this last one. It seems that the more that Emma and I have really good weekends, the more we miss each other in the intervening weeks. Goodness knows what itâs going…
Continue readingThis weekend is the six month anniversary of Emma and mine’s first date. She arrived at my house on Friday afternoon and was waiting for me, making use of my wireless broadband connection. It was not quite a repeat of…
Continue readingLast night, I arrived home from work to find that Emma had stolen into my house, and lit candles, poured wine, and got a delicious baked salmon meal planned. It was one of the most special of surprises I think…
Continue reading1. Cold though it might have been to get up to this morning, the quality of light and crispness to the air, and the smell of the day was gorgeous. It was the kind of day that reminds me why…
Continue readingThis weekend was utterly, fantastically great! 🙂 My parent’s arrived on Friday night, and on Saturday we went for a walk with Barney dog at Stowe Landscape Gardens near Buckingham (one of the Capability Brown constructed estates – there’s also…
Continue readingFor some, Saturday 7 July 2007 was triply lucky. For different reasons, it has been incredibly lucky for Emma and me today. After the incessant rains of the last – umm – month or more, the was shining and it…
Continue readingSince the high-drama of last seasons finale, and then the quieter reflection of the coda, the current season in the life of Thomas Shepherd has been of an altogether different pace than to what the fans have been used to….
Continue readingI woke up today still bouyed up with thoughts about how well my interviews went yesterday. Apparently at Sophos, my html test that I did was, and I quote, ‘one of the best that they had ever seen’. It also…
Continue readingConsciously at least, nothing was planned in my mind. Last night thought the subject of boyfriends and girlfriends came up – Clare is quitting her PE job to move up to Aberdeen and be with her Allan. This coupled with…
Continue readingIt has been a while since my last posting on this, my most tightly locked filter. This is because I have had nothing of news to impart. That is, until now. For the past three weeks I have been emailing,…
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