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2 Sep 2006 12:19 amWell I like the way these new 'Expressive' layouts put a tags list in the sidebar, so I decided to give it a go. I'm not really sure - I miss my sweetpeas - but now I'm not sure how to go back to them, or whether I can make this narrower and put the sweetpeas back at the side but with this bit up the middle. Or some other pic up the side even. It looks a bit impersonal now. Hmmm.....
Other than that, well I've had this week off work, and I intended to get another 1,000 words or so done of 'Ten Years After 2' - tentatively titled 'Prague Autumn' - and I have managed to find so many other things to do instead, you wouldn't believe it. I have covered shoe boxes in Christmas paper for our annual collection of gifts for Byelorussia, I've made chocolate fudge cake and carrot cake for catering at Church, I've helped out three afternoons with said catering (we run a snack-bar for the motorcycle race meetings held twice a year) - I've even washed every item of clothing Daughter-dear brought back from Leeds Music Festival. But writing? Me? TYA2 is still only about 500 words or so long!
Talking of D-d and the music festival - her and her friends had a really good time - she got suntanned, she got soaking wet, she ate junk food, she saw loads of bands - a good festival. The new rucksack she got as a congratulations present for her A level results was just fine, and her 3 man tent that we bought a couple of years ago proved again to be wind and waterproof - the last night was very wet - and ended with four of them in her tent! Tescos near the site was out of disposable BBQs the day before the Festival started - bad organisation D-d and her friends thought - so they bought a roasting tin, a cooling rack and a bag of charcoal and made their own - very succesfully. D-d bought strawberries on that trip to Tescos, and the rest laughed at her - by Friday/Saturday they were all really grateful to her for sharing them around.
She has now sent off her applications for a place in Hall (Dorms), got her reading lists and forms to choose options for her modules next year, and we have an official letter to say that the I-o-M Government will pay all her tuition costs (God bless them!). It is now looking very real - this leaving home thing!
Other than that, well I've had this week off work, and I intended to get another 1,000 words or so done of 'Ten Years After 2' - tentatively titled 'Prague Autumn' - and I have managed to find so many other things to do instead, you wouldn't believe it. I have covered shoe boxes in Christmas paper for our annual collection of gifts for Byelorussia, I've made chocolate fudge cake and carrot cake for catering at Church, I've helped out three afternoons with said catering (we run a snack-bar for the motorcycle race meetings held twice a year) - I've even washed every item of clothing Daughter-dear brought back from Leeds Music Festival. But writing? Me? TYA2 is still only about 500 words or so long!
Talking of D-d and the music festival - her and her friends had a really good time - she got suntanned, she got soaking wet, she ate junk food, she saw loads of bands - a good festival. The new rucksack she got as a congratulations present for her A level results was just fine, and her 3 man tent that we bought a couple of years ago proved again to be wind and waterproof - the last night was very wet - and ended with four of them in her tent! Tescos near the site was out of disposable BBQs the day before the Festival started - bad organisation D-d and her friends thought - so they bought a roasting tin, a cooling rack and a bag of charcoal and made their own - very succesfully. D-d bought strawberries on that trip to Tescos, and the rest laughed at her - by Friday/Saturday they were all really grateful to her for sharing them around.
She has now sent off her applications for a place in Hall (Dorms), got her reading lists and forms to choose options for her modules next year, and we have an official letter to say that the I-o-M Government will pay all her tuition costs (God bless them!). It is now looking very real - this leaving home thing!
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