On holiday?

Hello all,


Just another short one (ahem) - bit of a weird week. I've finished my uni work, just the summer project to go.


That doesn't mean I'm on holiday (honest) - I've just registered this morning as self-employed! This is the first step to gettin my business started up, it's all a little scary really. I'm sure I'll end up badgering my friend Katie (her new business, Live The Lingo has just gone online). Watch this space.

Aside from that, the flat is an absolute tip, we're packing for our move this weekend to our new house (the palace of glittering delights, henceforth tpogd), see the above photo. I'm sure we'll get it all sorted, just looking forward to getting in there (and getting out of here). One problem is that we're likely to have no internet for a while in tpogd while Orange get their arses together to switch it over. Our phone number's changing too, get in touch to get the new one. I'll send out the address for tpogd at some point too!

Gmap Pedometer

This is great. Period.

If you're interested in running, cycling, walking etc, and want to know how far you've been (or how many calories you've burnt etc), you can use this to map out your route.
If you're a techie loser like myself, this can be exported as .gpx to be uploaded to your gps unit so you can have a route to follow.
Everyone else might just like to see how far it is to the shops....

Various news items

Hello again,


Just thought I'd post a little update on here:

New house!

Yes, it's that time of year again! We've just signed for a new place just down the road from where we are now (contact me for address details) - it's an absolute palace (basement, living room, bathrooms, master bedroom, plus office/spare room), just on the edge of Meanwood. We're really looking forward to moving in on the 17th June, and we're looking at having a house cooling party (for moving out of our old flat, which'll be reasonably empty) before we hand the keys back on the 30th of June.

Tattoo (again)

My tattoo is now nearly finished, I went back to Physical Poetry on Tuesday to get all the little stars filled in. Just a few more swirls to go on before it's complete - I'll get photos up when it's done!

End of Uni

We're all stressing out in uni once again (that's why I'm wasting yet more time by posting on here, rather than completing my essays), as we've got our last deadline before the summer project to hand in on Friday. I'm sure we'll all feel a lot more chilled out this time next week (deadline is at 12 on the 9th), and we'll probably already be in the pub by then! From then on, just the 10,000 words of translation plus the accompanying commentary (boo..)...

And finally...

Last thing is that our summer holiday is booked! We're off to Brittany to stay at my parents' place (between Dinan, Dinard and St. Brieuc) for a few days, then of to stay with Babeth and David in Fécamp in Normandy (where I spent my gap year teaching before coming to Leeds). I'm all very excited, and impressed at the money that can be saved by taking the Megabus rather than catching the train down to London!

More news soon...