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hellisonHi! As usual I have *meant* to update on so very many occasions and never actually done it. but here I am! Possibly because I am having a brief phase of woe and aaall byyy myseeelff, because despite it being lovely weather and a long weekend to laze about and sit in the garden, it would be much nicer with company.
The flaw with this being that it is the 12th weekend so roads are shut (or burnt) and the lunatics are off bricking their own politicians and so forth, so travel anywhere local is tricky. The other flaws are that the friend I have been spending fridays with lately has just moved to London, and the other local friends I would normally hang out with this weekend are either -
a. in very final throes of writing up/handing in Phd and thus v. distracted and have family commitments when not
or
b. haven't spoken to me since february
Obviously have many not quite so local lovely friends i could have gone to see, but am just back from week away, have horses/cats/family etc, and tbh was looking forward to a chilled weekend at home, not having anticipated Sudden Onset Woe. Also the telly is fux0red which is depriving me of the usual distraction.
On the plus side, weather is lovely, family are well, nothing in the immediate vicinity is on fire and I have a very full glass of v tasty cava/cointreau/cranberry cocktail. So, could be worse ;p
How are you all doing out there in LJ land? IS anyone still out there?
The flaw with this being that it is the 12th weekend so roads are shut (or burnt) and the lunatics are off bricking their own politicians and so forth, so travel anywhere local is tricky. The other flaws are that the friend I have been spending fridays with lately has just moved to London, and the other local friends I would normally hang out with this weekend are either -
a. in very final throes of writing up/handing in Phd and thus v. distracted and have family commitments when not
or
b. haven't spoken to me since february
Obviously have many not quite so local lovely friends i could have gone to see, but am just back from week away, have horses/cats/family etc, and tbh was looking forward to a chilled weekend at home, not having anticipated Sudden Onset Woe. Also the telly is fux0red which is depriving me of the usual distraction.
On the plus side, weather is lovely, family are well, nothing in the immediate vicinity is on fire and I have a very full glass of v tasty cava/cointreau/cranberry cocktail. So, could be worse ;p
How are you all doing out there in LJ land? IS anyone still out there?
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Date: 2013-07-12 10:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-12 10:53 pm (UTC)possibly ACTUALLY singing ALLLL BYYYY MYSELLLLLF
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Date: 2013-07-12 10:59 pm (UTC)>.>
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Date: 2013-07-13 12:00 pm (UTC)Hello it is GREY and WINDY here. and a whole 12 degrees. Not all things about the Far North are good. (But you should still visit me before I move south!)
I miss lj. Tumblr is shiny but CONVERSATIONS hard. Twiter ditto. C'mon, fandom etc., find a more text-based platform again soooon.
Was asked at swimming this morining WHY things are happening in Belfast. One day I will find a one-sentence response? (Have you seen this amazing - in both a good photographic way and a bad everything-else way - picture in the Tele?)
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Date: 2013-07-13 12:30 pm (UTC)When DO you go? Would be lovely to get up for more exploring!
I miss the lj conversations too, tumblr is grand for pretty pictures, but terrible for actual conversation having (and i still haven't figured out how most of it works)
Woke up to that picture. May have laughed a LOT. Also the Dodds thing, am going to hell, but this bit in particular caused genuine LOLs last night -
"He was unlucky because he was also hit by water cannon as I was trying to administer first aid and he got soaked," he added. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23295307
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Date: 2013-07-13 12:44 pm (UTC)About Christmas, or shortly thereafter. Eep.
Ahaha, I may have also snickered as I was reading that this AM.
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Date: 2013-07-13 12:56 pm (UTC)Wow xmas! That is not so far away really! then back to edinburgh?
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Date: 2013-07-13 07:40 pm (UTC)TOO SOON TOO SOON WHAT ABOUT THE PEST WOE ETC. Am focusing on the part where it will be easier/cheaper to travel to Abroad etc. and on the exciting proximity of cinemas, theatres, arty things, many pubs etc. (and also therapists).
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Date: 2013-07-13 08:35 pm (UTC)will you be able to bring Pest? or is he mostly an outdoor/farm cat type with occasional burst of domesticity? Still the access to various facilities and travel will be good!
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Date: 2013-07-13 08:45 pm (UTC)He is a very outside cat, especially in the summer, no matter how much he loves to lie on a human and be petted. I think making him inside-only (in a flat) would be cruel, and at my mum's place he would get himself run over within the week given how little traffic he sees (plus the mother is asthmatic and allergic, and Other Brother is SUPER allergic, and we don't know how Martha feels about cats as a species but she has chased one out the garden with much barking already). SO I will have to leave him behind but he looooooooooves meeeeeeee. And I think he is cute and secretly have become v v v attached to the wee monster. I know next door will feed him, but if he won't learn to go inside WHO WILL PET HIM AND DEFLEA HIM AND SKRITCH HIS EARS???? Also I will miss him. :( :( :( :( He is very furry! And the purring and climbing on me is quite soothing.)
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Date: 2013-07-13 02:18 pm (UTC)I'm still hanging around LJ occasionally, but as usual I don't really post :p
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Date: 2013-07-13 08:36 pm (UTC)