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I can't believe I haven't updated for so long for no other reason other than work's been so busy. Now that's not usually a reason for not updating but I've been flat out for the past two days. Monday put me behind as I got to the train station in the morning only to see that trains to Leeds were cancelled. Alternative routes were going to take ages so I 'worked from home'. You figure out what that means. Although, actually I did do some work as I could access the spanking new Virtual Learning Environment. Our team of four had our photo taken for the page so we are online for all staff to see (thankfully this is an internal thing). So yeah, busy but in a good way as our new team are on a four man mission to revolutionise admin in the College.
Anyway, that's boring. At the weekend Lucy came to see us. We met her from the train station at arond half 6 and she had a mega huge suitcase with her. She assures us that it was full fo sleeping bags but I reckon that it was empty and her comment about us having the 'biggest DVD collection ever' makes me think that she's smuggled some of those home with her. Hmmm. Anyway, we picked up cocktail ingredients on the way home and after our Indian I made, what turned out to be 'Mighty Rand's'. 'Mighty' because they were tasty. To make a Mighty Rand you will need vodka, peach schapps and pineapple juice. You can also make Juicy Lucys which are the same but topped up with Morissons peach and mandarin juice. Classy. So we drank those and played Scattergories. It was great fun actually and it was nice to entertain in our house for a change.
On Saturday after awakening the cosy Lucy we headed out into town. I don't think Lucy's ever seen so many charity shops. We managed to get some good stuff too. I got some 'Rand' party pickers so now I can hold cocktail parties AND supply people with party snacks. I also went into the library and found a book group to join. Their next meeting is today which wasn't very good but the next one is October so I'll go to that. I hope it's not just full of old people though. I shall see anyway. It only meets once a month either way. We had lovely dinner in Cafe Jaca and then we had a wander to the castle. Lovely stuff. We mostly just talked about Disneyland! Lucy's LJ comments about James being hotter than in photos have made me laugh. 'Lucky Rand!' indeed! It was lovely to see Lucy and I'm glad that someone actually thought to come and see *us* for a change. In fact, it's nice to know that I have a friend out there who gives as much as takes. We're well aware tht we live ages apart but neither of us puts pressure to visit the other and we see each other when we can. I couldn't ask for anything more really.
We didn't really do anything for the rest of the weekend. I've been playing the Broken Sword games because I realised that they'd released some new ones and I'd only ever played the first two. So I'm on number 2 at the moment. They're very funny and still look great. It helps that they're set in Paris (well, the first one at least) which made me feel like I wanted to go back there!
We've watched quite a few films over the past few days. The first one was 'Crank' which was absolutely ludicrous and totally made for 'macho guys'. However, despite this it was quite fun and wouldn't have been anything without the nice direction and editing. It was also really fast paced too and this worked well, much like 'Run Lola Run' or something like that. On the other side of things we've also watched 'Bright Young Things' which I really enjoyed despite the total lack of plot. It's very funny and very Stephen Fry. It's directed well though and doesn't show signs of it being his first directed film. I'm sure we watched another film but I can't think for the life of me what it was!
I have just finished my book on 'The Alphabet' which was very interesting. I learnt a lot considering it was just one chapter a letter. It's fascinating where letters have come from and why we write the way we do. I managed to pick up loads of stupid fact such as that most words in Elnglish start with the letter 'S' and that the least used letter is 'Z' (and also why 'Z' is zee in America and 'zed' in England). The newest letter in the alphabet is 'J' which wasn't fully accepted until the 1850's oddly. Just silly things like that. I'm not sure what to read next really.
Anyway, that's boring. At the weekend Lucy came to see us. We met her from the train station at arond half 6 and she had a mega huge suitcase with her. She assures us that it was full fo sleeping bags but I reckon that it was empty and her comment about us having the 'biggest DVD collection ever' makes me think that she's smuggled some of those home with her. Hmmm. Anyway, we picked up cocktail ingredients on the way home and after our Indian I made, what turned out to be 'Mighty Rand's'. 'Mighty' because they were tasty. To make a Mighty Rand you will need vodka, peach schapps and pineapple juice. You can also make Juicy Lucys which are the same but topped up with Morissons peach and mandarin juice. Classy. So we drank those and played Scattergories. It was great fun actually and it was nice to entertain in our house for a change.
On Saturday after awakening the cosy Lucy we headed out into town. I don't think Lucy's ever seen so many charity shops. We managed to get some good stuff too. I got some 'Rand' party pickers so now I can hold cocktail parties AND supply people with party snacks. I also went into the library and found a book group to join. Their next meeting is today which wasn't very good but the next one is October so I'll go to that. I hope it's not just full of old people though. I shall see anyway. It only meets once a month either way. We had lovely dinner in Cafe Jaca and then we had a wander to the castle. Lovely stuff. We mostly just talked about Disneyland! Lucy's LJ comments about James being hotter than in photos have made me laugh. 'Lucky Rand!' indeed! It was lovely to see Lucy and I'm glad that someone actually thought to come and see *us* for a change. In fact, it's nice to know that I have a friend out there who gives as much as takes. We're well aware tht we live ages apart but neither of us puts pressure to visit the other and we see each other when we can. I couldn't ask for anything more really.
We didn't really do anything for the rest of the weekend. I've been playing the Broken Sword games because I realised that they'd released some new ones and I'd only ever played the first two. So I'm on number 2 at the moment. They're very funny and still look great. It helps that they're set in Paris (well, the first one at least) which made me feel like I wanted to go back there!
We've watched quite a few films over the past few days. The first one was 'Crank' which was absolutely ludicrous and totally made for 'macho guys'. However, despite this it was quite fun and wouldn't have been anything without the nice direction and editing. It was also really fast paced too and this worked well, much like 'Run Lola Run' or something like that. On the other side of things we've also watched 'Bright Young Things' which I really enjoyed despite the total lack of plot. It's very funny and very Stephen Fry. It's directed well though and doesn't show signs of it being his first directed film. I'm sure we watched another film but I can't think for the life of me what it was!
I have just finished my book on 'The Alphabet' which was very interesting. I learnt a lot considering it was just one chapter a letter. It's fascinating where letters have come from and why we write the way we do. I managed to pick up loads of stupid fact such as that most words in Elnglish start with the letter 'S' and that the least used letter is 'Z' (and also why 'Z' is zee in America and 'zed' in England). The newest letter in the alphabet is 'J' which wasn't fully accepted until the 1850's oddly. Just silly things like that. I'm not sure what to read next really.
