Some random snippets from the last few weeks;
We've had two weekends worth of Christmas shopping now, and have managed to get most of it either bought or ordered... I think. Our plan last weekend involved driving to Oxford and spending the day shopping there; due to not actually getting our arses in gear at any kind of sensible time -- and having to make an stop in High Wycombe to drop off a friend's mobile phone, which the daft sod had left in my car a couple of days previous -- it was more like about three hours' shopping time. Oh well.
Amazon's "free shipping over £19" offer is probably giving our postman nightmares. Because we've had problems before with Amazon changing availability of some items and not telling us, we've been bundling items into the smallest parcels which will go over £19 in value (in many cases this is a single item). Including
As previously mentioned, I'm proofreading bits of
The Friday previous to that was our regular poker evening, unusually being held at our place due to building work at its usual venue. I coaxed the bread machine to produce infeasible quantities of focaccia to feed the
The evening after poker was the birthday party of our friend L, which was held in a pub up in central London. Sensibly, she'd chosen her fancy dress theme to include "Greek" for those of us who'd been to Siege of Troy the weekend before, so
Coming right up to date, Dragonmeet was yesterday, which was good as ever, though I got caught in an all-afternoon game of Hackmaster and thus didn't see too many other people. And, argh, nobody in the trade hall had the Dwarven Forge stuff I wanted to buy for part of
More shortly.