Spa day

We came to the conclusion a while ago that birthday presents that benefit the whole group rather than just the one with the birthday are without a doubt the way to go. We may be grownups and supposed to be all magnanimous and shit, but in truth we’re just grownups who still like stuff. Thus, [...]

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Bremen

The trip to Bremen was a weird anomaly. You know why? Because we didn’t get stranded in the middle of nowhere, or have to trek across Germany to get my flight, nor did a big storm hit, cancelling the concert. From leaving the house to returning to Stansted 38 hours later, everything went just dandy. [...]

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Ceilidh celebrations

The dress code for Suzy’s party was a little more flattering than last time, being as it was just a splash of tartan. I had absolutely no tartan and so took to Ebay to see what I could find. I settled on a skirt originally from H&M and it turned up in plenty of time [...]

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Lady Godiva

Suzy celebrated her 30th birthday at the weekend with a ceilidh, which is a party with Scottish or Irish folk music and dancing. It was hilarious fun and I’ll post more about the party, but for now, here’s a taster of the dancing.

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New Year

Happy new year, folks. I hope you celebrated appropriately and that someone called you on new year’s eve and said, “Hey, happy new year, let’s go for a walk and have lunch tomorrow!” And that you looked at the weather forecast, saw that it would be cloudy, but dry and agreed to the plan. That’s [...]

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7 Days: Day 4 – Christmas Eve

Suzy and I celebrated Christmas Eve with Chinese takeaway tonight. The plan was to watch Love Actually too, but it turned out, I suppose unsurprisingly, that we can fill an evening with talking quite easily, so the DVD stayed in my bag. The Chinese food was delicious and we polished off a bottle of delightful [...]

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