Wee Break in August

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I’ve been considering going for a wee break somewhere in August. I thought of going to Austria, to the BarCamp Traunsee to be precise, and to pay my friend anaj a visit at the same time. I’ve always wanted to go to Vienna! I’d even planned how to get there - fly with [...]

Car News

Tonight, my friend A. is going to come and take a look at my car. He has a mobile thingy to raise the car (not sure what it’s called) and hopefully he’ll be able to fix whatever is loose (if it is something loose that’s causing the rattling, that is…).
Plan B is to take it [...]

New Car is Rattling –> Garage

In the current long list of breakdowns in lenina’s life, the new car has now joined in with a weird rattling sound whenever I drive it.
At first I feared it may be a hole in the exhaust, or something to do with the spark plugs just firing off randomly; however, after driving around and listening [...]

J’s baby - first pic

Aaaaawww!

My German Friends have left; Car is Gone

My German friends who had visited me from last Tuesday left today. We had a great time - luckily they were qutie independent, hiring mountain bikes and exploring Edinburgh by themselves.
Today was also the day that I took my rubbish car to the breaker’s yard, where it fetched over £80!! I thought I had to [...]

White House Design

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I went to see my former boss last night, together with my BF, first at her house in South West London and then we all went to the pub. Some former colleagues also came along.
I was greatly inspired by the way she had designed her house (they only bought it last year and [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 10

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Today was yet another slow one, to the point of being confronted with myself. Help
I went for a walk, thinking of the Cure - song, ‘The Top’
this top is the place where nobody goes
I walked up a hill and really was all by myself. Taking my journal (the one I had [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 04

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We cut the grass today with the shiny new strimmer. My mum’s husband was quite good at it - he just wouldn’t stop till the job was finished (great pleasure to work with. Why on earth is he a fucking fork-lift driver on a low wage? He’s got the drive and motivation to [...]

I’m not going to go for my boss’ job

I’ve decided not to. I just don’t want the responsibility and the stress of it. Not now. Firstly, I’ve got a couple of other projects lined up. If I focus all my energy on getting my boss’ job, I can’t focus fully on the other projects, one of which is in fact starting this week! [...]

The Suicide that Never Was

For the last 7 months, I thought that someone I knew (on the periphery of ‘knowing’ up here in Edinburgh had killed himself. I even blogged about it here.
Only I found out today that it’s not actually true! It was someone’s sister, who was already disabled (with MS), that had died of natural causes.
How that [...]