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A snowy hello to you all, my lovelies! I hope that, wherever you are, you've been keeping toasty and warm. It snowed here all yesterday afternoon, and right into the night, only stopping at about 1am. This made getting ready to go out to Denise's birthday party interesting, to say the least! Luckily, her house is a short walk and I have a great pair of wellies and the ability to carry my party

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Evening all - probably a snowy evening, depending on where you are. Right now, I'm curled up on the sofa, wearing many layers and legwarmers, with a hot water bottle and three blankets. It's cold in our little flat! It's been a turbulent week for me at work, with lots of stress, and I've been really emotional. Hence the radio silence, blogwise. Things picked up a bit at the end of the week, but

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Nic and I are having a bit of a dropout Saturday, today. When we woke up this morning and saw the wintry sun streaming through the plans, the idea was to go for breakfast and then walk across the fields to the Saxon Mill. Instead, we went for brunch and have spent the afternoon lazing around which has been just peachy. After such a crappy day on Monday my week thankfully did take a bit of an

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When the call came out for bloggers to write about a pair of shoes from Sarenza to be in with the chance to work with them as a brand ambassador, my thoughts went immediately to a gorgeous pair of Chie Mihara lovelies that I wrote about last year over at About Your Dress. Sadly, those particular babies are long gone, but luckily for me, Chie Mihara have brought them out again this season, in two

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Evening all, my pretties! I hope you've been having a good day and that you had wonderful weekends. I had a great weekend but an almost completely sucky Monday. Work was so very stressful today that I ended up crying more than once, and right up until I got home I was in a thoroughly rotten mood. It's mainly work that's stressing me out - in my line of work this is a very difficult and busy time

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As I mentioned in a previous post, I haven't made New Year's Resolutions this year, not as such. However, in 2011 I think I got into good happiness habits and I'd like that to continue in 2012. One of these habits was a simple, but powerful one, spending quality time with excellent people. So, to that end I am proposing another meetup. It's going to be in London, again, but this is unavoidable.

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It's Sunday again and I can't believe how quickly this week has sped past. I think it's because it's been such an excellent week, you see. I've had a very, very good work week but Nic had an even better work week. If you follow me on twitter (just like my blog but more swearing) you'll know that he had his PhD viva on Thursday and he passed, so he's Doctor Nic now! I won't get all soppy here and

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It's been back to work with a thump for me this week! All week I'm commuting between Leamington and London, which means that I'll have clocked up 20 hours on the train by Friday! It's madness, but I guess it means I'll have a few days of flexitime to use up by the end of the month. It's all making me extra grateful for my extended Christmas break, which admittedly is feeling further and further

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Why hello there my dears, happy Saturday! Nic and I are back in Leamington now after a truly wonderful Christmas and New Year break in Northern Ireland. We had a very quiet last few days in Dungannon because the weather was so horrible, which kept us indoors. Still - it gave Nic time to get some work done, and it gave me time to finish reading one of the books about Fred West that my mum lent me.

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Dressember Days 30 and 31: Congratulations Emma and Adrian, and Happy New Year!Happy New Year to all of my darling readers! I hope you all saw in 2012 in a manner that pleased you. I've been having a wonderful few days and I think I can say I said goodbye to 2011 in style! I have no outfit photo from Day 29 of Dressember, but it was a repeat anyway. The 29th was exciting, because Nic was arriving

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Dressember Days 27 and 28: Stormy weather Apparently the Met Office have an amber weather warning out for gales in Northern Ireland. I can believe it - I lay awake for most of last night listening to the rain driving against the window. It's a nice cosy sound when you're buried under blankets, but I did worry a wee bit that Nic's flight tomorrow might be affected. I don't think it will, though -

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Dressember Days 24, 25, 26: Happy Christmas, everybody! I'll get it out there now - I don't have a picture from Christmas Eve. It was too busy! You know how these things go - there was lots of running around, seeing family, bickering. Also, I spent a pleasant few hours in the early afternoon watching DVDs in bed. So that was good. As it goes, it was a wet and windy day and my sister and I got

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Dressember Day 23 I'm a bit later this evening, because the internet briefly stopped working at my parents' house, and it took nearly an hour on the phone to their crappy provider to get it sorted. Sigh. Anyway, obviously Daddy did get it sorted and now I'm free to mess about on the internet - well, as long as I can get the big dog down from the sofa long enough to do anything. He looks like the

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Dressember Day 22I've been having another lovely lazy day today. Hurrah for the holidays! I slept in this morning - but really I overslept a bit, as I've been fuzzy-headed all the rest of the day. After a quick breakfast I got dressed and headed out with Daddy, who had some errands to run up in Ballygawley and Fintona. Before we went he kindly took a photo of my outfit: Emily & Fin Anya dress

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Dressember Day 21 Afternoon, everyone! In true holiday style, I've been having a lazy day of it and am seriously contemplating going for an afternoon nap in a little while. This is how to live, I tell you. As I say, I've not exactly had a taxing day so far. I stayed up reasonably late last night watching silly TV programmes (CSI Miami: pure hilarity. Imagine: non-stop cutaways to Alan Yentob

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Dressember Day 19 A slight break in posting there, folks. Sorry about that! It's been a busy few days. Yesterday was my last day at work for the holidays and I was flat out getting everything finished before I went. And I did! It was a quiet day in the office, and productive and a fitting end to a hectic year, I think. I had chores to do and errands to run, and I'd made plans to hang out with

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Dressember Days 17 and 18: Early ChristmasAfternoon all! I hope you're all having a cosy Sunday - I am. I'm curled up in my default Sunday pose, with a blanket and a DVD and soon a big mug of tea and my Bagpuss hot water bottle. It's been a wonderful weekend, and I only have one day of work left before I'm off on my holidays, and I'm feeling festive and relaxed and excited and happy.On Friday

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Dressember Days 14-16: Apollo Cinema Leamington Spa are law-breaking, anti social SWINESHi all, remember me?! I have had a busy busy few days and haven't had much time to update, I'm afraid. And I didn't manage to get a photo at all yesterday, but that's the way it goes sometimes.Wednesday was my second work Christmas do - this time with my team. We had a meal booked at DC6 Diner in Coventry

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Dressember Day 13My dear readers, I thoroughly expected today to suck. But you know what? It really, really didn't! I woke up lots of times in the night because of the wind rattling the window, and worried a bit about today, but it was good. I had a big meeting first thing this morning, and I was convinced it was going to be long, and dull. But, it didn't over run and it was really, really

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Dressember Day 12Oooh evening all, it's a chilly one, is it not?! After a long day at work, Nic and I had to do some Christmas shopping in Coventry so I'm only just home. It's time for a quiet evening in with University Challenge on the iplayer, I think.Not much craic with me today. With the exception of a rather irritating exchange with a colleague today, it's been a good day. This is partly

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Dressember Days 10 and 11Evening all! It's windy and rainy and horrible outside, but I'm tucked up all warm in our wee flat with a hot water bottle and a blanket. It's all about comfort this evening, right down to dinner - macaroni cheese. I have a busy week ahead of me and then it's HOLIDAY TIME, so yay!I have a couple of Dressember dresses to share with you. Nic and I had a lovely lazy

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Dressember Days 8 and 9: BUSYI didn't manage to get any time to do my Dressember post yesterday, breaking my post a day streak. Oh well, you can't have everything I suppose. I had a really busy work day yesterday, and I'm just taking a break from an equally busy day to post now. I am busy organising two full weeks of meetings and review panels for the first two weeks of January and it's a

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Dressember Day 7: Whirling WednesdayAs promised in my post last night, I am much brighter and chirpier today. This is because I slept from about half nine last night right up until eight this morning. Well, apart from having to get up for ten minutes in the middle of the night to thump the stupid storage heater yet again. So, I'm getting on top of this horrible tiredness. Which is just as well,

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Dressember Day 6You guys, I am so tired of saying how TIRED I am. But I really am, just now. I'm looking forward to the weekend, or at least to feeling more rested so I don't look so washed out in all my photos. Despite my early night last night, I just couldn't get to sleep. It's partly because I was still quite stressed about everything with work. It was also partly due to having watched Young

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Dressember Day 5: The saga continues...Evening all! A short post this evening, because I've had an exhausting day. My pay issues are still unresolved and are unlikely to be until the end of the month. I'll be paid as normal then, but will have to wait for the tax office to be able to confirm my proper tax code before I'll get my money back for this month. It's a bit frustrating, but it could be

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Dressember Day 4I'm finally starting to feel better! In fact, today I felt almost normal. I think I can say goodbye to the flu - at least until I inevitably catch another one on my flight home at Christmas. Still, though, I'm so glad to be feeling better. Last night Louise, Peter, and Jackie came over for dinner and a film. It was such a lovely way to spend the evening. Nic cooked us up a

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Dressember Day 3Evening all! It's Saturday, and I have to keep this short as Louise and Peter are on their way round for an evening of films, mulled wine, chilli and nachos. Yes! After yesterday's magnum opus of suckitude, I woke up this morning feeling much better. I decided yesterday that I wouldn't go to the Clothes Show, and instead spent the day resting and chilling out, trying to get rid of

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Dressember Day 2: Payroll HellSo, today has not been great. It's been a catalogue of disasters, really. I'm still feeling quite unwell with this flu, but I had to go into work to investigate why I had been underpaid by around £1000 this month. Four hours of phone calls to DWP, our payroll and HMRC and I got to the bottom of the problem - due to a temp job I had for about three weeks in 2008, I've

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Dressember Day 1So, folks - it's the first day of Dressember! And I have the flu. So, I didn't go to work and the temptation to stay in my pyjamas for the whole day was very strong. But, I do usually feel a bit better after I've had a shower and dressed, and this was sort of true today. I went out for a bit, to get some fresh air and something to eat - so it was worth getting dressed.Emily & Fin

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Hello my loves, happy Wednesday! Compared to last week, this week is flying by - can't complain about that, though. I've been on strike today, so not at work. Yesterday, I was working in our offices in Westminster because Nic and I had a very exciting evening planned. I don't miss commuting to London every day as I used to, but I am pleased to have the opportunity to work there more often. Our

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It's Sunday afternoon yet again, and I'm gearing up for a cosy evening with The Box of Delights, some mince pies and a pot of tea. What a rock and roll life I lead!Nic and I had another busy week, and I honestly think it took me most of the week to recover from that ridiculous night in Leeds. Like I said, rock and roll! It was a good week, though. I've been working hard, and starting to make some

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What's up, my nerds?!So, I hope you're all having a fun Sunday and all is well. I'm pottering away while Nic watches Fritz Lang's Metropolis for a lecture he's giving tomorrow. I haven't watched this film since I studied it in my first year undergraduate and as background TV it's pretty bombastic. It's giving Nic the giggles, too - mainly because he keeps making comparisons between it and Star

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Evening, folks. I hope you're all having a pleasant Sunday evening. I'm curled up with a blanket, watching The Box of Delights with Nic. We don't have time to watch them one a week before Christmas, but we're going to make sure to get them all in before then. It's lovely comfort viewing on these dark nights, maybe we'll even watch the BBC version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe as

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Afternoon all, my dears. Remember me? I'm that woman who used to update this blog a wee bit more frequently? Heh. Let's just say that I've had a busy week or two, mostly because of work. Last week really, really sucked. This week was better, but just as busy and just as intense. I prefer that - I got to use my brain this week, which is how it was an improvement on the one that went before. Still,

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Hello my dear ones! When I last wrote, I was dashing off to the second part of my fun weekend. As part of my birthday present, my darling Nic had bought me tickets to see one of my favourite bands - The Divine Comedy - playing at the RSC. Stratford isn't far from Leamington but to make an event of it (and to save us from having to dash for the last bus home) we decided to stay over and booked a

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It's rare I don't kick off with a random quote, but as yesterday was the great Bombshell Meetup, I thought I'd change things up a bit in here!So yes, yesterday dawned bright and sunny and I was all psyched (and a little nervous) to be heading down to London to meet up with some beautiful fellow sewists. When I concocted this plan a while back, I had thought of sewing something new for the

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Evening my loves! It's cold and dismal here in Leamington today, I've been working from home and it is SO GLOOMY. Luckily for me, Nic has been keeping me cheery with cups of tea and blankets and hot water bottles, so it's all good. Also, today was the first day I've been able to work from home since we moved into our new jobs, and for the first time ever working from home I haven't wanted to

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Today's post is just some thoughts, because not a lot has been happening since I last wrote. Nic and I were still keeping a fairly low profile over the weekend, because he is still feeling quite under the weather. On Saturday evening I made a chckipea curry, got a bit tipsy on Sauvignon Blanc and watched The 39 Steps (the Hitchcock film, rather than the TV adapatation starring Rupert Penry-Jones

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Evening all, happy weekend! After a very busy week, I'm making the most of not having much planned for this weekend. Nic and I have been having a lovely, lazy day and tonight we're going to watch The 39 Steps with a curry and a bottle of wine. Robert Donat and Sauvignon Blanc - a good combination, as far as I'm concerned.As I say, this week has been really busy and poor old Nic has been suffering

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I saw this post this morning over at Retro Chick and it's been popping up around some of the other blogs I read. Like Ms Chick, I used to love doing these memes in emails and on my long-defunct MySpace blog so I thought what the hey, I'll go old-school and fill one out now. It'll be back to regularly scheduled blogging at some point in the near future I'm sure! Like Retro Chick, I do like getting

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Evening all, happy weekend! I hope you've all been having a good one. I have had a good weekend - the weather has been beautiful and I've been doing lots of fun, restful, weekendy things. It's good because last week was a little bit on the stressful side of things. Well, not exactly stressful but it was certainly not my best week. The transition into the civil service is not easy on my team and

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Good Monday to you all my dears! I had an unexpectedly busy week last week - I spent much of the week in a spin, trying to figure out what on earth was going on. The bit of the NDPB I worked for transferred into a new executive agency last Monday. The change in my job should be minimal - I am coming to work in the same building, working with the same team and doing roughly the same thing - but

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Hello strangers! Did you all miss me? Oh well, never mind, I'm back from my holibobs now. I've had such a lovely week that even this Sunday evening feels holiday-ish rather than Sunday evening-ish. Nic has just cooked me a delicious dinner and we've got the windows wide open to enjoy the unseasonably warm breeze. Life feels very good right now!I had an absolutely super birthday, I have to say.

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Evening all. Remember me?! I didn't mean for there to be such a hiatus in posting but it's been a busy few weeks. I'm blowing the dust off the keyboard now, though so I hope you'll all forgive me - I'm sure so many people have been wondering over the past week or more "But what is Roisin doing? Where has she been?!"It's all been good, though. Work has been really busy and while I have had my fair

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Evening all! Last week proved to be unexpectedly busy and I ended up not having the time to post or really to do much of anything, so here it is, Monday again. Firstly - the planned bombshell meetup is GO! Lovely Fi suggested moving it to Birmingham but at least this time, it seems like more people will be able to meet in London. I do like the idea of doing something more central at a later

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Happy Sunday evening, all. I hope you've all had a good weekend. It's been unexpectedly summery around here, and that was nice. It was like summer's last hurrah, although I'm sure there are a few more good days left before it's all knee-boots and berets. I've had a great few days, made even better by the fact that the horrible cold/flu type thing that had been hanging around all week finally

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Good evening darlings, I hope you all had a very lovely bank holiday weekend. I'm still adjusting to the idea of work, and sniffling with a head cold that I'm sure came from spending too much time on air conditioned (refridgerated) trains yesterday. But I can't complain, because on the whole life is very good. When I left you guys on Friday afternoon, Nic and I were off to spend the weekend in

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Happy Friday (almost) afternoon my sweets! Sadly, it's chucking it down here in Leamington right now, but I hope wherever you are the bank holiday weekend is a bit better. Especially if you're down in Kent, because that's where Nic and I are headed shortly for a little seaside weekend! Despite the rain, I'm in a very festive mood. It's been a really good week. My darling Nic finished his PhD

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Evening all! Well, after the excitement of last Monday and my 'day in my life' post, the rest of the week was pretty quiet. You guys should be relieved it wasn't a week in my life, seriously. No, not really. Last week was grand, pretty uneventful but good. I don't have much in the way of news to share. On Wednesday I wore my Call Me Betty dress and one of the highlights of my day was a man

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The wonderful Amber wrote a hilarious post the other day - a day in her life in Instagram. I loved the idea, so on Monday I did the same thing. I loved reading about Amber's day, and I was interested to see how I'd view my day if it was chronicled in the same way. So, be ready for lots of pictures! I took these with the Vignette app on my android phone, I don't have an iphone. So, here goes! Nic

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Happy Monday everyone! I'm feeling uncharacteristically chirpy today, probably because the sun is shining, I have a little seaside holiday on the horizon, I have some nice sewing projects on my sewing table... I don't know, just feeling nice and optimistic today. It's a good feeling! Of course, it also helps that I had a very lovely weekend. I worked from home on Friday and rounded off a

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Hello my loves! Well, this week got away from me somewhat. It's been a busy one, one of those when you can't quite believe it's already Friday. Not that I'm complaining, or anything. But if you've been feeling neglected, it hasn't been intentional, I swear! So, where did we leave off? On Friday afternoon I went along to a wine focus group. It was pretty cool. What I know about wine could fill up

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Hello my loves! After a grey and rainy few days weather-wise and mood wise, the sun has come back out and my mood has improved a lot. So that's good, although Wednesday night was a bit of a low point when we were woken up at 3 in the morning by a couple having a screaming row outside our window. It was so grim, you guys. I won't repeat it here, but the man was an absolute animal and he was so

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Evening darlings! It's been a very busy few days at work and at home. I've become involved in a really interesting project at work, but the time we have to complete it is very short so it's panic stations, the last few days have been really busy and next week will be too. As I said in my last blog post, it's nice not to be bored out of my mind! We've also been planning out - or rather, trying to

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Afternoon (or evening, or whatever) everyone. It's Monday afternoon and I am pretty psyched that today is over, because Monday is usually the work day that I dread the most. Not just because it's Monday, but because it usually sucks for other reasons. Today was good, though. I didn't spend it bored out of my mind, which is an automatic bonus! I won't talk too much about work though, but I am

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You guys, what is UP?! I know there have been tumbleweeds and all blowing around the blog, here. I respect y'all for sticking with me. I had very sporadic computer access last week when I was at home, and for most of the week I was either asleep, reading or playing The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass on my mum's Nintendo DS. What can I say? It rains A LOT in Northern Ireland. I did have an

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Afternoon all! I can't believe how long it's taken for this week to get to Friday. I don't like to wish my life away, but this week has been longer than some months. How can it be that some time stretches out endlessly like this? I think it might be because I'm off home to Northern Ireland soon to see my folks and my friends, and this has made time slow down. So, sorry about that folks!Despite

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You guys, it's been a busy week. I hope you're all keeping well! I've been very busy at work getting stuff ready for an event at the end of next week and it feels like I've spent most of this week crawling around on the floor of the secure room putting things into bags. I mean, proportionally speaking that's not how I spent most of the week. It sure did feel that way, though. So, you know, that's

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Hello my darlings! Wow, this has been a busy week. One where I kept meaning to take photographs and write and all, but instead found myself doing other, sometimes less interesting thing. As I overheard a young man say to an elderly lady after he'd hit her with a football he'd been booting around the park, "soz".It has been a good week, however. After all my bitching and whining last week, this

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Hello my lovelies! I hope you're all well wherever you are. It's beautifully sunny and warm here in Leamington, and Nic and I have just spent most of the afternoon in the park, which was lovely. Well, it would have been better without all the other people there but I'll try to be gracious. It is a public space after all.The unbelievably foul mood I was in on Wednesday did go away. Thursday and

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Evening all! Yes, another midweek blog post. It must be the season of the witch! I hope you've all been having a good day and, now that Wednesday is over, that you're looking forward to the weekend. I'm grand, although today has been a difficult day. It certainly brightened up once I got off the train in Leamington and it was sunny, and I was greeted on the doorstep by this little lady:So, what's

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Evening all, my dearies. A reasonably rare midweek blog post here, because I'm trying to be a better blogger and blog more regularly. What a treat for you all, eh? I'm actually not feeling too clever today, and stayed home from work feeling under the weather. I watched Frasier and drank mint tea like it was going out of fashion while Nic worked at the table. The glamorous life, what do you think?

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Hello peeps, what's the haps? I'm one tired and happy Dolly this afternoon, after a most refreshing weekend of socialising. For the most part, last week was highly meh. Those of you who know me in real life or follow me on twitter will have heard me moaning about all the printing I had to do, which was incredibly boring. Still, I came to work prepared with my book and on Monday while printing

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Well my friends and neighbours, what's the craic? Not too much here, it's a chilly and rainy Sunday afternoon and Nic is drawing and I'm just pottering around, Sunday style. I've got the ingredients ready for a cake to be baked, and scones and clotted cream and lemon curd (and jam for Nic) to have with a pot of tea and an episode of Poirot later. I hear it's what all the kids are into these

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Wow, so the sun went away just in time for it to be Monday. Nice one, sun! I woke up this morning feeling verrrry sleepy and confused, having had a weird dream of a dystopian future in which I was in a work camp run by Daleks. I don't know what it says about my subconscious that Indiana Jones swung in to save the day, but whatever. I won't go into details because other people's dreams are boring,

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Hola everybody! I know it's been ages, would you all believe me if I told you that it's just I've been super busy? I have been! Sadly with nothing hugely glamorous, but very busy all the same. Anyway, it's a lazy sunny Saturday afternoon and here I am. Settle down, I suppose, and I'll get y'all caught up. Well, you know what I mean.So, the last time I wrote was before the long weekend. I was

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Evening all, my pretties! I hope none of you got blown away during today's epic winds. Needless to say, I did not. I was safely bored in our office, watching the horizontal rain whipping across Coventry while I worked on YET ANOTHER SPREADSHEET. Still, at least they have finally sorted out the damn heating so, while my brain is melting my body is fine. Yup, it's going to be one of those

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A happy Wednesday afternoon to you all! Posting midweek seems a bit strange for me, breaking out of my usual Sunday evening routine and I'm a creature of habit and all that. It'll be a short one though as I'm off out shortly for a Sew Make Believe workshop. I'm hosting it this evening and I'm feeling pleasantly smug about having all of my materials and even resources in order! You can't take the

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Hello strangers! It feels like it's been an age since I last blogged even though it's only been about a week, but to be honest I've just not been feeling it. I've been so up and down this past week or so there was a good chance that if I sat down to blog it'd come out a bit of an incoherent mess, so I didn't. Also I've been totally bored with my wardrobe (which I know is really stupid given that

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Afternoon all! I'm nursing a thundery pressure headache this afternoon, possibly due to this Spanish Plume thing the Met Office are on about. Actually, generally my head is feeling rather uncomfortably full at the moment, hence the relative scarcity of my posts at the moment. I was feeling seriously grotty and grumpy this morning and last night so I did what I do when I'm annoyed - I vacuumed. It

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Afternoon everyone! Well, it feels like it's been forever since I've written a blog, but I suppose that's what being on holiday will do for a girl. I'm back to work tomorrow, and this past fortnight has felt like forever so I can't quite imagine actually being back in the office. Still, there are definitely worse things than the office, and I feel very well rested from my break. Well, emotionally

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Greetings, my dear readers. I hope this lovely bank holiday weekend finds you all well. I'm by the sea with Nic, visiting his family on the Kent coast. The weather has been unexpectedly glorious, and so far we've been doing our best to make the most of it.After a reasonably stressful start to the week, I decided to calm things down a bit by finishing off my second curtain dress - another

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Like many Doctor Who fans, I was saddened to hear about the death of Elisabeth Sladen - Sarah Jane Smith - at the age of 63, on Monday. I've come to Doctor Who reasonably late in life, I have the vaguest of memories of watching it as a child (when Sylvester McCoy was the man in the big blue box) but falling in love with a geek can do funny things to a girl: now I'm a pretty serious Doctor Who

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Evening all! I've just managed to shake off a bad mood that has been lingering with me for the past few days. The combination of getting out of work, an ice cream in the park with Nic and spending time with friends has put a smile back on my face. Which is a good thing, because I had a mega grump on me all afternoon - I've just been having one of those ragey days, and I am extremely glad to be

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So, you know that blog post I mentioned earlier in the week? Well it is on its way, but some really horrible news from home derailed my week somewhat so it is going to be a bit later, but I have not forgotten. I am on a much more even keel now, thanks to my absolutely awesome friends. Y'all know who you are, all of you who showed me your love this week, and I sincerely appreciate it. Stuff at

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I woke up in the funniest mood this morning. I can't remember my dreams last night, so I wonder if maybe I had a stressy dream and it made me feel blue. Whatever it was, I had that horrible stomach clenching formless anxiety and getting up was hard. I got up, anyway, and I'm feeling grand now but it was a strange start to the day all the same. I will be glad when we break up work for easter, some

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Evening all! I hope you've all been having an excellent weekend, wherever you might be. I've been sunning myself and having a rather lovely time of it, and I'm going to tell you about it in a minute but first I'd like to direct you to my post from Friday if you haven't already read it. I've been reading Amber McNaught's blogs now for a number of years. I respect her professionally and for lots of

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Hello my dears, just a quick one from me this afternoon (more to follow) I'm sure most of my regular readers also read my favourite blogs, those run by the wonderful and talented Amber McNaught. Sickeningly, one of her blogs is now under attack from an imposter, and she needs our help. She has put it better than I could, so I'm going to post her blog about it below. You can comment and show your

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Hello all, it's another Sunday evening here's-what-I've-been-doing type blog. I really need to organise my time better so I'm not blogging at the same time every week, but what can you do? As I write Nic is cooking us delicious vegetarian fish and chips for dinner and I'm half watching an episode of The Thick of It. It's a lovely, slightly sweary end to a beautiful weekend and I'm going to tell

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Evening all, and happy clocks-changing-now-it's-British-Summer time! Actually, I find the clock change always a bit wearing because it messes up my body clock, but today has been warm and sunny and if I'm a bit tired, no matter because it is finally officially no longer winter. I mean, there's no guarantee that there won't still be snow but still.So anyway my dears, I hope you've all been having

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Hello my dears! It feels like it's been ages since I wrote a blog, but I suppose it hasn't been all that long, probably. Anyhow, here I am for your reading delight. Settle in, and settle down.I hope it's been nice where you all are, because it's been beautiful here. The weekend was sunny and warm and ever so relaxing, which was just exactly what I needed. Part of the reason why I haven't updated

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When I sat down to write this blog post I was in a really crabby mood. I'm sleep-deprived and under the weather and feeling crabby about various things anyway, but in the time it's taken me to get my photos sorted out the metaphorical sun has come back out. So, instead of crabbing at y'all about everything that's annoying me at the moment I'm going to share what I've been up to over the past few

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This is just a wee quick one this evening because I'm having a busy day today, but I wanted to check in and say hello! So, you know, hello!Not too much craic with me, I'm afraid. I've come to the end of my short work week and I'm glad - Monday and Tuesday were frustrating work days. Tuesday especially, working with a particularly difficult colleague (not Angry Colleague, who has been fine) made

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Evening all! I hope you're all well and that some of you even managed to get a spot of sunshine this weekend, did you? I did, which did wonders for my mood and my general outlook as well, although I am under no illusions about the sunshine because it is still freakin' cold. I discovered just how cold when I had to stand outside for an hour on Friday morning watching the Shred-It man shred some (

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It is still SO COLD! I can't believe it. I had to wear my winter coat to work today and am currently wearing one of Nic's big jumpers, with a blanket over my lap and a hot water bottle. So. Not. Impressed. However, I can see daffodils starting to make an appearance in the Pump Room Gardens so maybe it'll warm the feck up sometime soon.It's been rather a hectic week and this evening I am feeling

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No time to update you all on Saturday and Sunday after all, I'm afraid. Saturday turned into a lengthy sewing marathon with Denise. I don't have a finished object to show you all, but I will have before too long. I made my first ever muslin, for the circle dress I want to make from the beautiful gingham I bought at the Walthamstow Shopping Frenzy. I've never been patient enough to make a muslin

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So, this week was going to be the week where I got my blog on and actually did a bit of writing. It just wasn't to be, and Friday has rolled around again. I think the only thing to do is keep having the good intentions and hopefully life will stop intervening and ruining my plans, what? Still, it's Friday and I've been having a good day working from home so basically it's all good round here.I've

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Hey you guys! It's been nearly a week since I wrote a blog and, truth be told, I feel a little bit guilty. Last week was a bit of a slog. My creaky old RSI shoulder was playing up BIG STYLE, I had a lot of boring and fairly physically demanding (as far as, y'know, an office job gets physical) work to do. By Friday evening I was up for a fun time, but a slow-burning headache that had started on

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Happy Valentine's Day!I can't stay for very long this evening as I have dinner bubbling away on the stove. Still, I wanted to check in with you all and wish you lots of love today. In many ways Valentine's Day doesn't mean a great deal to me, and I especially dislike all of the marketing that goes on around it. Still, I can't see the harm in there being a day set aside to celebrate love, so

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Evening all. I hope you're all well on this chilly February evening. Nic and I are curled up, watching an absolutely cracking episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. It started with Lex Luthor pretending to be Superman in a virtual reality game. His costume even says LEX on the front, just like his skyscraper. It is so cool. Also, James Earl Jones is in this episode, so that's

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It's that time again, my friends. It's Friend Friday. Today's questions are around colour:What colour dominates your closet?I can't say that any one colour dominates my wardrobe. I have quite a lot of reds and pinks in there. I try to avoid buying too many black clothes (although they do sneak in there from time to time) The only colour that is really underrepresented is yellow, although I do

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Oh hai! As Flickr is always telling me, this is how to greet people in lolspeak. Yeah, thanks Flickr. So, Sunday evening yet again. I've got the flat to myself for a few hours while Nic is out at a jazz jam, so I've made some rocky road, read a bit of my book and now I'm farting around on the internet. I have not taken the laundry out of the machine or done the vacuuming, which are the two jobs I

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I had actually planned to blog this last night but, well, forward planning is not always my strong point. So, here we are on Friday evening. How are we all doing?I'm pleasantly suprised by how my week managed to pick itself up after having such a crappy beginning. I've had a good work week (what remained of it after the lurgy-ness) and that always makes me feel happy. I had a really nice chat

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Evening all! I'm very relieved to say that I seem to be mostly over the flu. I mean, I'm still going to moan and whinge a little bit about my sore legs and being tired and all, but mostly I'm fine. I was back in work today and everything. Hopefully I'm done now with the lurgies, fingers crossed.I spent yesterday mainly moping around the house and sleeping, but I did also take delivery of a new

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Evening all! This is just a wee quick one tonight to tell you two things. I've been off work today with the flu and am still feeling rather ropey. I'm sure a good night's sleep and some lemsip will help. Anyhoo, what I wanted to say was this. I'm doing the Shoeper Shoe Challenge this year! I did start in on the last one but sort of tailed off, but this year Amber has rallied the troops, and it's

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So, seriously, could Spring hurry up and get here? Wrapping up warm is nice, and all, but I am tired of feeling cold. It's cold in our wee flat, Nic and I are swaddled in blankets and I'm on my 357th cup of tea of today just to keep my fingers from freezing!No, I'm only joking. It's only 324 cups of tea, and I don't mind the cold that badly. It's just, my nose is cold and that's apt to make me a

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In a break from tradition, I'm actually going to credit the quotation I've used for today's blog header. The wonderful Noel Streatfeild - the author best remembered for her children's books, but who also wrote a considerable amount of fiction for adults - coined this maxim. I stumbled across it this week while reading Linda Grant's book The Thoughtful Dresser:I got an email last week from my

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Another set of Friend Friday questions and answers, folks! I sort of stole Amber's title for it, because it made me laugh.What technology do you use in blogging? (Computer, camera, video camera, tripod etc)My blogging is VERY low-tech indeed. Up until a few weeks ago I was taking photos with my mobile phone and just putting them on my blog with no editing or cropping or anything. I think that was

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So, yeah, I took the day off work today. Not for any devil-may-care fun reasons but because I didn't get any sleep last night. Luckily my manager was very cool about my last-minute request to use a day of my annual leave, and after a long sleep in I feel like I can salvage the rest of the day. Yes, my noisy next door neighbour was at it again. The downstairs neighbours I mentioned before are

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As Nic and I have been having a quiet January due to lack of funds, we've been hitting our collection of DVD boxed sets pretty hard. The other night, while watching an episode of The X-Files, it struck me that the 90s were a good time for TV crushes. In my opinion maybe even better than today (although it's hard to argue against Jon Hamm, there. Wow.) So, for your reading pleasure I present a

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