We had our now-familiar time-hiccup yesterday. While we were sleeping we had an hour nicked from us, with an I.O.U. for October. And just like that we moved into British Summer Time (BST).
Coming from a country where daylight-savings isn’t the norm, the whole idea seemed quite foreign when we arrived in the UK. [...]
Tom’s been out helping a friend choose a new computer today. They weren’t necessarily going to buy though – because we’d had a look at PCWorld’s website the other evening and their online prices were very competitive. So today was more for looking so they could make some decisions after seeing the real [...]
We got an early-morning call on Wednesday, all the way from Australia. This was to let us know of the much-anticipated arrival of Angus – the first of the next generation on Tom’s side!
We’re dead keen to see some photos of the wee lad! Hopefully some will be forthcoming once the household settles [...]
As is fairly typical for a Sunday afternoon, we started off with very little on the agenda.
First off we had to finish watching Shadowlands – the excellently-told and very moving story about C.S. Lewis and his wife Joy.
After that Tom started making noises about wanting a curry…
The tragedy of this, is that our favourite curry [...]
Tom’s recently confirmed another trip to New York for work. Apparently they want him to go there about four times a year.
In theory, it’s a good thing, because he’s earning more AA airmiles with every trip, and hopefully soon that will turn into a free ticket and another trip for me. [...]
Last weekend we headed for the south coast, just past Chichester. To the small seaside village of Bracklesham Bay and the holiday resort of “South Downs”.
As I mentioned in a previous post, we were going down for an Alpha weekend, hosted by Holy Trinity Brompton. As HTB is where Alpha got started, I [...]
This had to be a very quick note because there’s been sooo much to do this week, and this evening (my only free one while Tom’s off at the Alpha course) has been mostly taken up with the mindless domesticity of ironing. (Ok, and some extra time with my latest free novel from the [...]
Tom is a member of the parish council at St Simons, and yesterday was their annual away-day. This meant I had the day to myself and I decided to get in an excursion.
I took myself off to the National Portrait Gallery near Leicester Square which I’ve never visited before despite two holiday visits to [...]
It’s a gorgeous blue sky day – with a slight cross-wind apparently – and Tom’s zipped off for the afternoon to renew his South African pilot’s licence.
Fortunately there are so many of us “Saffers” here in the UK that he doesn’t need to trek all the way back to SA to do this — he [...]
Tom’s been speaking to the guy upstairs who comes out onto the front doorstep to smoke. Apparently their baby is due in the next two weeks. That sounds all very well, but they only have one bedroom and it’s just one wooden floor away from ours!
