Here he is my long suffering housemate Dave turning 26 (thus making him the same age as me and preventing him from using the phrase ‘old’ in conjuction with me for 7 months, hurrah!)and blowing his candles out. I had made him a cake and was putting my finishing touches to the icing when he Read more about Happy Birthday to Dave[…]
new year & keats house 044Originally uploaded by victoriaros56 So after all of the excitement of the night before (not to mention the quite large quantities of alcohol) I had something cultural and restful planned for New Years Day. I was staying the night with my friends Zoe & Steve who live in Ealing. We Read more about New Years day and Keats house[…]
Happy new year everyone! The above photo shows exactly what we were up to this NYE. Back to the castle favourites Bellowhead were given the chance to play at the Royal Festival Hall for New Year (as they are their band in residence no less) so they threw a massive nautically themed party and we Read more about Hootanany!!![…]
The above photo is what my brother (photo further down the page) wanted to give me for Christmas. She is a one and a bit year old Staffordshire bull terrier cross (we think she may be crossed with a collie but we aren’t sure) that my brother and his girlfriend took in before Christmas. She Read more about How do you solve a problem like Mia?[…]
So last night when the ground all around seemed to be deep and crisp and even (we are talking millimeters of snow, sadly for us pedestrians it had ice underneath it though…) I got a phone call from Robin. It appears I have passed dreaded exam, but yet again missed a merit (3 marks off, Read more about Result![…]
So the above was what I got up to last Wednesday. It was our morris Christmas party & everyone had to take an activity/game/something that everyone could join in with. We started off with a good old fashioned pass the parcel, followed by a very random quiz (my team definitely tried but came last, never Read more about Morris Christmas party[…]
kerfuffle, morris Christmas part 015Originally uploaded by victoriaros56 Going into December things always start to get a little hectic Christmas is approaching, printer deadlines at work and as is customery in years gone by on a weekend near the start of December we hold the Oxford folk festival carols at the castle, This years concert Read more about Festive weekends 1 & 2[…]
This will probably only be a short post, but there is so much going on I thought I’d better pause & reflect before I do myself an injury. This week has been busy! I’m slowly upping my word count on the nano writing but major revisions need to be made to the starting plot if Read more about So many things so little time[…]
This blog is causing me serious trouble & strife at the moment. Behind the scenes are a load of posts from the time I went missing a couple of months ago (it all started with Italy, I wrote the posts, I just didn’t publish them because I had no pictures, now that I have the Read more about and then there was nano…[…]
So I’ve been to Liverpool to do the build and have just written it up for our work magazine. I’m going to post the article here as right now all I need/want is sleep, apologies for the slightly more journalistic style but have triple checked & everything is included 🙂 It’s 1am on a Saturday Read more about Home is where the hard work is[…]