tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73443258211235811372012-02-16T11:59:49.367Zfor when the eloquence escapes meSherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.comBlogger2061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-61484579017772160862008-11-10T19:51:00.002Z2008-11-10T19:58:03.112Z

I was travelling home from work today along a single carriageway road where the national speed limit applies. Traffic on that route has been heavier than usual recently because a nearby road has been closed and my formerly peaceful route has become really rather busy.A lot of the busy-ness is created by the fact that people are creating their own diversion route and doing a right turn into a

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I'm slightly concerned that it is now October; where has this year gone? Dan and I are already wondering about Christmas presents and where we can get a tree and when we could possibly find the time to make a Christmas cake and soak it in brandy.

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Tomorrow, I am playing football for the "Past" team at my college reunion. I graduated 3 years ago and my football boots and socks have not seen the light of day since so I'm pretty much expecting to be suffering on Sunday.A problem I never had as a student: where is the parking near the college football grounds?

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Dan and I went out for lunch yesterday and this is the discussion that took place over the dessert menu:Dan: What are you going to have?Me: I'm stuffed, I can't eat anymore.Dan: We'll have to work on this, what do you mean you can't eat three courses.Me: I didn't have breakfast until almost 11!Dan: You have to eat a dessert, or I won't.Me: You have dessert, I'll have a glass of champagne.Dan:

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As the days get shorter and everything gets darker sooner due to all the clouds I've noticed that there are more idiot drivers around (for example, more than once recently I've reached the top of hills where the central markings are dashed and solid in my favour to find cars on my side of the road because they've decided to overtake cyclists just then). I wonder if there's something linking poor

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Papercuts are de rigeur at work and they hardly phase me anymore. However, in the last week I have stabbed my fingers with thumb-tacks, staples and ring binders and have wiped off more blood onto my suits than I care to think about. It's not pretty and my fingers hurt.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-11673894995686760972008-09-01T18:52:00.002+01:002008-09-01T18:54:06.683+01:00

When I type a letter into the address bar on the new version of Firefox there is far too much information displayed. All the websites which have that letter in the link come up and I don't like it.Also, has it been two weeks since I last blogged? I have no clue where the time has gone. We've been to Germany for a wedding, and have been back for over a week. I'm already looking forward to the next

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We're going to a wedding next week and I spent a considerable amount of time today looking for a wedding card. I just wanted a simple card that wasn't too glitzy or mushy or covered in silver hearts. It was hard; the cards I found were all too sparkly or garish or had pictures of little bride and groom figures that would not have looked out of place in a horror movie. Eventually I bought a card

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-51883519456536512822008-08-09T14:27:00.004+01:002008-08-09T14:34:33.907+01:00

So the obsessive compulsive part of me was still in bed yesterday morning when I parked in one of my usual pay and display car parks and then walked off without paying or displaying. Unsurprisingly, I came back to find a parking ticket pasted onto my windscreen and then spent the next 3-4 hours obsessing about how I was now a bad person, thereby providing a great deal of amusement for my parents

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While I have long suspected that I have an obsessive streak in me somewhere, it was only yesterday afternoon that it became apparent how deep that streak actually runs. From taking 50 bazillion goes to complete "Slow Ride", it appears that I can now rock with the best of them and I'm working my way through the song list... 24 songs, 2 battles and a bunch of encores down, 18 songs and three more

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There are not that many things at which I really really suck but Guitar Heroes is one of those things where I drive other people in the room mad because of the frequency with which I am booed off stage. Still, we've had it around the house since last weekend and today is the first day that I've had the patience to persevere through the booing and actually complete a song. Then I tried the next

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My drive to and from work takes me past some fields. Last week the harvesters were out and while there was a fine mist of harvest dust over parts of the road it was accompanied by this incredibly sweet smell which made the drive home rather enjoyable.This week, I've been driving past those fields in the baking sunshine and holding my breath because they've finished harvesting and laid down manure

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-25321022396636481922008-07-29T08:48:00.003+01:002008-07-29T08:54:23.310+01:00

I am parked up waiting for the place I need to be to open and while I wait I'm blogging from my iPhone. The only glitch so far is that I have to go into the 'edit HTML' screen to type.

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The Wii Fit has the cute little Balance Board that is there to motivate you to use the Wii Fit. If you don't use it for a few days it admonishes you; I skipped one day yesterday and this morning it asked me if I had been busy yesterday... charming.Everytime you do a body test the game tells you what "age" you are. I've been consistently hitting the 30s but today for the first time I was actually

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... but I'm reliably informed that this is exactly what they are like.

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I went to a friend's house for dinner on Saturday night. She and her boyfriend were having a dinner party and because they live in a whole different city and I was going to be drinking I stayed the night on one of their (very comfortable) sofas. However, on Sunday morning I woke up to the stark realisation that I am really past the days where I can stay up until 2.30 in the morning and then

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What can I say... I've been busy.I went to see Wicked; I had my sister over to stay; I've had four-court weeks and multiple deadlines; I've been down to London and up to Newcastle; I've bought a new suit, a dress to wear to a wedding and garden furniture; I've had houseguests and we've all been playing on the Wii Fit; I watched a movie at the cinema for the first time in ages and agonised over

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-25661092279386344222008-06-19T20:22:00.001+01:002008-12-09T01:04:27.784Z

This time on a wedding invitation.

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Another birthday has passed me by and I even had a card posted to me from Samoa, which is possibly the farthest place anybody has ever sent me post from. I just had to take a picture of the stamps as it's quite amusing to have the Queen on stamps from other countries.

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It's only taken us a year and a half to start sorting out our garden. Here's our weekend in pictures:A brand new water feature to fill what we affectionately call "The Pond";Brand new garden furniture (yes, those are gin & tonics);A glass of wine after all the hard work.

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Our front garden used to have one of those tufts of fancy grass; the type that is supposed to look all chic with some rocks around it. This tuft of grass annoyed me no end: it didn't go with anything and looked dead all the time, but the neighbourhood cats loved it. They used to hide in it and then pounce on each other.Last weekend, we re-did the front garden and now the tuft of grass is gone.

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I was listening to Front Row as I cooked dinner today and heard Kirsty Lang talking to the Chapman brothers. They were talking about their remake of Hell; Hell was a painting of theirs which they had sold to Charles Saatchi and which was destroyed in 2004 in a warehouse fire (story here).They were talking about whether they would have sold the new version to him and citing various reasons, said

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We spent 16 hours on the road travelling to and from our Bank Holiday destination. For once we split the driving about equally, probably just as well because if either of us had to drive for 8 hours we'd be big cranks at the end of it! The weather was awful throughout as well, with high winds, torrential rain and at some stages really awful visibility.Very different from the last BH, when we were

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I came around a bend on a Fenland road today to find myself rapidly catching up to two young cyclists. They were riding as young ones tend to, with not much attention to balance and without a helmet or any type of high-visibility gear. On a national speed limit road known for the frequent fatal accidents and the heavy traffic, this was madness; I slowed right down as I passed them but I do hope

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-88827517655432495292008-05-11T17:18:00.003+01:002008-12-09T01:04:28.412Z

I've been away. Now that I'm back I'm in full fledged withdrawal as the endless supply of margaritas, mojitos and daiquiris has dried up and french toast with cinnamon sugar is not a daily staple in this household. More's the pity.

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When you don't blog about work but spend most of the day at work and most of your free time (i.e. time away from work) thinking about opening speeches, cross examination and hearsay applications, there often isn't much to say when you find you have a moment or two in which to blog.That said, all this week I have tried to take my own lunch to work, and I've succeeded. Admittedly, by this morning

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I am on my feet. I am also busier than ever now and this would be the point where if I had pets, I would just post cute photographs of them. Instead, you're going to get photographs of the family dogs:Baileyand Twister(Tune in next time to see the neighbourhood kitten in action.)

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When I went to Bangladesh over Christmas, two of my oldest friends and I had a sleepover. When you're our age, no sleepover is complete without alcohol and when you're in a "dry" country, you drink what you can get. That's how we landed up in my friend's mom's bedroom, spreading ourselves out over her rather nice furniture and drinking vanilla vodka (of dubious origin) mixed with Sprite and lime

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It's been one of those weekends where I feel like I've gotten a lot done. In truth, I probably haven't achieved much apart from having a late night for the first time in ages!Saturday morning I bounded out of bed at 7.10am, unable to sleep any longer. The early start meant that I'd had my windscreen wipers fixed (gunk cleaned out of the motor for free! Marshalls rock!) and was in the Grand Arcade

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The lines were drawn in the sand yesterday as the "Hospital Consultants" took on the "Faculty of Advocates" in University Challenge. Clearly, the way to get us hooked is to have on the first episode a team from each of our chosen professions. Today though, we both plumped for the civil servants from the Ministry of Justice and so neither of us were disappointed when they stormed to a massive 115

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-52428280899213520172008-03-30T10:48:00.003+01:002008-12-09T01:04:28.894Z

I am now the proud owner of one of these:If you live in anything bigger than bedsit, then go out and buy one now. I can't believe that I have lived in this house for over a year, struggling each week with a titchy little vacuum cleaner when I could have had this at my disposal. There's no going back.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-91205094501986788562008-03-29T08:58:00.003Z2008-03-29T15:15:25.823Z

Way behind the pack, I'm going to talk about The Apprentice and Nicholas De Lacey Brown.I'm sure he's a lovely guy if that's what you want your friends to be like, but in a show where street smarts have to count for a lot, did he seriously think he would get anywhere? I mean it's all very well to have a First and a Distinction and an Outstanding, but has he never bought fish? Has he never had

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-81332455250097261942008-03-26T19:19:00.003Z2008-12-09T01:04:29.069Z

I came home today to find a new type of cheese in the fridge. Reblochon is my new favourite cheese and I could easily eat a whole round of it. This may turn out to be rather expensive!

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Along with most of the country we spent our Easter weekend down in Cornwall.On the way down we stopped in Bristol to see a friend (you know who you are). *wave* On his recommendation we went for lunch to Severn Shed. If you haven't been there, I would thoroughly recommend it, but be warned that the loos may confuse you a little.By heading down south we missed out on all the snow in our village (

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-86706430080124757292008-03-18T20:29:00.002Z2008-12-09T01:04:29.196Z

One of the disadvantages of being at the provincial Bar is the distance from Temple. Apart from the readily available hot lunches, there's the additional benefit of watching the flowers being delivered. This photo doesn't do justice to how nice it was to walk down Middle Temple Lane and come upon the masses of flowers and foliage outside Middle Temple Hall.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-42152189335505630912008-03-16T17:39:00.003Z2008-12-09T01:04:29.249Z

I alternate between two perfume brands. About 5 weeks ago I ran out of my perfume and just couldn't find the time to go buy myself another bottle. Instead I used some old CK that had been around for yonks (unopened) and everytime I sprayed myself with it I thought "I really need to go buy some perfume". Luckily for me, my dad came to visit and his flight routing took him through one of the

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I haven't finished with the clock photos and in fact since I've been spending quite a bit more time in London I've noticed a few more that I want to snap.However, I am currently on 14 hour days (at least) and it's kicking my ass. I am the sort of person who needs 8 hours of sleep in order to function. When you've only got 10 hours of the day left in the first place, getting that sleep is near

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-67147748930743655102008-03-02T15:15:00.002Z2008-12-09T01:04:29.381Z

I hate being late, so it's hardly surprising that I found clocks everywhere I looked.

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Of course this post wasn't meant to be so long after the first but some scroats stole telephone cables leaving us with no broadband. Charming.

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When I was spending a few days in London back in December I decided to take more photos but it probably wasn't until my third day there that I felt somewhat comfortable whipping out the camera when I saw something I wanted to snap. That day I was early for what I was doing and decided to get off the tube north of the river and walk the rest of the way to where I was headed, which was south of the

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-66606928935845601362008-02-23T17:21:00.001Z2008-12-09T01:04:29.756Z

...mentioned in the previous post. I love the orangeness of the butternut squash and carrots.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-55020876179491953972008-02-19T19:18:00.002Z2008-12-09T01:04:30.013Z

I took these photos just before Christmas intending to blog them in the spirit of the season. They've been languishing on my hard drive since but this morning was exactly like this!I wonder what happened to the spiders that spun these webs.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-47872311770297014932008-02-17T18:34:00.004Z2008-12-09T01:04:30.247Z

Through necessity we were in and out in 25 minutes but it's a place where you could easily spend an hour or two. The food was fantastic; possibly the best breakfast I have had anywhere, ever.My chorizo, eggs and potatoes.Dan's Joselito ham, eggs and potatoes.

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Surprised with flowers and champagne and an offer to cook dinner... just what a girl needs after getting lost on the way home from work.

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On the way home.My indoor Iris finally blooms.

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Last Saturday there was a break from all the rain and wind and the sun actually peeped out in the morning so Dan and I made our way to Thetford Forest Park and went cycling. Because we are both competitive people and also because we are kind of dumb and thought "How hard can it be when you're following a trail?", we went for the Red Route. Even before I was thrown from my bike, landing on my left

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Comment moderation has been enabled so don't worry if your comments take a few days to appear.

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While dinner bubbles away in the oven, I am flipping channels. Surprisingly, one of the channels actually has something that I want to watch: Love Story. I've read the book a dozen times and the movie just doesn't compare; the chemistry that jumps out from the page didn't translate onto the screen.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-74139949655844492932008-01-17T20:09:00.000Z2008-01-17T20:14:44.701Z

"Senior officials have been swift to dismiss thoughts that the plane was running low on fuel" - about the BA flight which came down before it reached the runway, suffering what has been described as a "total loss of power".This is purely anecdotal, but I wouldn't be surprised if the plane ran out of fuel. I've been on a BA flight (admittedly some years ago now) where upon landing at Heathrow the

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"What did you eat today?""A sandwich, an apple, cheesy wotsits...""You do realise that cheesy wotsits are not a grown up food.""Well, I like them.""Cheesy wotsits... next you'll be eating Frosties for breakfast. Oh wait; you already do!"

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-66956372995939342412008-01-13T21:43:00.000Z2008-01-13T21:44:39.492Z

"I think Sartre is the most well known existentialist.""Well, I think it's Nietzsche."

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-13323656500167993092008-01-10T18:58:00.000Z2008-01-11T09:35:13.390Z

Me: I'm going to be late! I'm going to miss my train.My mom: You are not going to be late. Your train isn't until 16.35.Me: I am going to be late because it's 15.45, the train is from St Pancras and I'm in Bangladesh!That was the culmination of many dreams in which there was the recurrent theme that I was missing my train!

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-660750415117660502008-01-05T09:46:00.000Z2008-01-05T09:48:08.658Z

For the first time since my return the sun has actually decided to be seen. This is fantastic but it kind of sucked when I realised that the fingerprints on the french windows showed up in the sunlight in a way that they didn't in the gloom.

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As I slouched around the house on New Year's Day trying desperately (and failing) to convince Dan that we should go to IKEA because the fact that it was the only big store open on 01/01 was surely a SIGN that I was meant to go shopping I started looking for somewhere else to scratch that retail itch.Within minutes I was browsing my Amazon wishlist, clicking through and buying myself stuff; that

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-11788957233192316102008-01-03T21:10:00.000Z2008-01-03T21:12:17.751Z

"A plane crash in The Archers wouldn't be nearly as dramatic as Linda Snell having an argument about the llamas."Quite.

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While I can look at autopsy photos without too much of a grimace, watching Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall boil goat heads and then pry the jaws apart to take the tongue out is a bit much. I've run away from the the tv until the desire to puke passes.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-34689835411907213972007-12-31T18:58:00.000Z2007-12-31T19:01:52.175Z

I am back from my week abroad with what might be termed "a nasty cough"; it's the type where you think a little bit of lung might come up, where people turn away from you and where your sister thinks someone's at the door. Ok, so only my sister thinks that.Hard to believe that 2007 will be over in approximately 5 hours; I wonder what 2008 has in store.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-49124519083748410412007-12-19T15:53:00.000Z2007-12-19T15:57:24.848Z

For someone like me who gets a thrill from getting letters through the post, Christmas is a fantastic time. Everyday I come home, open the front door and immediately look down to see what the postman has delivered. I don't think there's been a day in the last two weeks when we haven't had something, and when it's from overseas, it's even better!

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-73722099234320533792007-12-18T18:36:00.000Z2007-12-18T18:47:27.851Z

A few examples of bad driving I've seen over the last week:1. The guy who had an unsecured bicycle on the back of his car; the bike slipped, but didn't fall completely and the guy panicked and stopped. This would be fine if (a) it hadn't been pitch black apart from the blinding headlights of oncoming traffic (b) he had pulled in a little (c) he had bothered to use his hazards (d) it hadn't all

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-43635194906149685612007-12-18T18:28:00.000Z2007-12-18T18:35:45.163Z

I read this article and thought to myself "I wonder how they came to that conclusion". I'll be interested to see the actual judgment but in the meantime the cynic in me is having a field day.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-61735940437271931852007-12-11T18:31:00.000Z2007-12-11T18:33:53.688Z

I am in London for a few days and this has meant getting up at 5.45am to ensure I get a parking space at the railway station. I am low on patience and high on crankiness, but this made me laugh and this is keeping my brain going at the end of the day when the thought of numbers drives me up the wall.

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I have no clue where the year has gone. Last year this time, I was still commuting 2 hours each way to work, I was stressing about house-purchases, barely seeing Dan and scraping frost off the car at 6.15 each morning. It feels like it was a lifetime ago!

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Unable to find a Saturday Times at the local supermarket we landed up buying a Guardian; it will be the first AND last time that happens. The whole paper was just disappointing.We should have known though: the first restaurant we went to for lunch had to ask everyone to leave after the power and gas failed. The drinks were on the house by way of apology and I feel sorry for them because they lost

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-76276222575526551772007-11-22T21:14:00.000Z2007-11-22T21:19:57.257Z

I just saw this advertised on tv. Who on earth will spend £300 on a fake pony (requires assembly) that can take weights of upto 36kg?

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Today started off really badly. Around 8 I got into my car and tried to start it. It made noises, but in terms of actual results, nothing. I tried all the tricks I know already but nothing worked, so I gave up and called the AA. I am going to whole-heartedly recommend the AA as a recovery service.- The phone call I had to make was brief, I was not kept on hold and I got to speak to someone with a

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Our dinner party kept us up until the wee hours. I don't think I can remember the last time I've seen 2.30 in the morning. Oh wait, it may have been in Ghana after another highly successful party when we landed up with yet more wine in our glasses and our feet dangling in the pool.Yesterday we went and watched Ratatouille. Given that our attention span is probably longer than that of the target

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-53410667759050309062007-11-09T17:04:00.000Z2007-11-09T17:08:21.906Z

The shorter days are kicking my ass so I'm very happy that it's the weekend and that I finished work earlier than anticipated.We have a friend and his fiancee over for dinner tonight and the most important thing I did upon arrival home was to take the eggs for the mousse out of the fridge. Now I have to do the boring stuff like vacuuming and doing the dishes. I don't know how my mother works all

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Conversations over the last few days:My sister: dont tell ammu or abbu yet im waiting till ammu comes back to tell them :DMe: I won't tell but you will have to tell me what they say.-----Mom: And then your sister told us her big news.Me: What big news?Mom: The same big news she told you yesterday!Me: Ohh.-----Me: And then she said that you'd told them your big news and I wanted to make sure it

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-74953882083406855512007-11-07T19:31:00.001Z2007-11-07T19:36:09.983Z

We have temporarily suspended running because of ankle injuries (Dan, not me). We'll resume next week assuming he doesn't fall down the stairs again. In the meantime, it's back to my slothy ways.

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"Hi kids. I'm really sorry but I'm out of chocolate, and all I've got is bananas.""I'll have a banana.""Really? Are you sure?""Yeah.""So, do you want kinda green ones or kinda brown ones?""I'll have that one.""You girls are lucky; any later and you'd be getting carrots.""Oooh, may I have a carrot?"The three girls run away giggling and I stand there amazed that they accepted bananas and carrots.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-71353069398585580622007-10-30T19:53:00.000Z2007-10-30T19:58:05.113Z

Run 30 minutes continuously.You'd think after a 5k run on Sunday this would be a breeze but I actually found it fairly hard. I think it's due to two things: running in the dark and cold as opposed to during the day when the air is warmer and also I picked up my pace a little.On the bright side, I found the right sort of layering which keeps me warm enough but also is light enough that I don't

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-81292428847581028202007-10-29T20:22:00.000Z2008-12-09T01:04:31.436Z

Fairly early this morning, one of the spotlights in our bathroom died, taking with it the circuit which supports our burglar alarm; cue me and Dan rushing around trying to remember how to reset the damn thing when it's going off. It took about 15 minutes before we got it sorted but it felt much longer. I was so stressed that I landed up calling my dad but he had a crisis of his own as one of the

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Run 5kSo we did. 33 minutes for me, 31:30 for Dan.It went so much better than last week's timed run.

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What with roads being shut due to the Grand Arcade construction work and the police thinking it is acceptable to park half on the pavement, half in a cycle lane while they pick up a pizza, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that more than one driver forgot the entire premise behind box junctions: don't enter them if your exit isn't clear and if your exit isn't clear when my light turns green

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18 minutes running, 2 minutes walking, 18 minutes running.Today was definitely a faster run, but this meant that I found the second part of the outing a lot harder than Tuesday. There is a definitely advantage to running with someone else though: if I'd been on a solo outing, I would have stopped about 6 minutes into the second run and walked the rest; having Dan there meant that I had the

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Today's programme: run 18 minutes, walk 2 minutes, run 18 minutes. It went really well which was good for a boost after feeling pretty miserable on Sunday (both physically and in motivational terms). I ran without music and found that it wasn't as disastrous as I thought it would be. We chatted as we ran and even came across about 5/6 other runners! As the weather gets colder we're going to need

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-5029714642906732122007-10-21T09:47:00.000+01:002007-10-21T09:49:12.877+01:00

2 mile timed run.Dan did it in 17:40.I did 1.6 miles in 17:00 and then decided I wasn't going to do the 5th lap.Running in cold air is hard.

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... but I imagine that around England there are lots of people who are very upset with the Australian video official.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-14879414403280956742007-10-20T17:11:00.000+01:002007-10-20T17:27:12.461+01:00

I put off buying a TV for ages because I didn't like the fact that TVLicensing send letters insisting I have a TV and I should buy a license, when really, I don't have a TV. Now that I have a TV, I also have a license. In fact, thanks to the postal and TVLicensing inefficiency at one stage I actually had two licenses.A few days after my dad bought us a tv we realised that we needed an aerial

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-26857944543210693182007-10-18T19:48:00.000+01:002007-10-18T20:32:56.323+01:00

After the initial breathing difficulties due to it being COLD, today went much better (mainly because it wasn't chucking it down the whole time). It would have been nice if our plan to run around the disused local airfield hadn't been thwarted by it now being a construction zone, but we went through the business park instead.The next run is on Sunday. The programme we're doing requires that we

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Dan and I are training for a 10k run. We went and bought our trainers on Sunday, deciding that our moderate pronation had better be addressed before we really started pounding the pavement. Today was our first run and it went fairly well. I landed up running further than I normally do and given it was the first time in over a month, I am happy with how I did. The only way it could have been

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-25720546330953128452007-10-15T19:53:00.001+01:002008-12-09T01:04:31.735Z

... it should be much easier to upload photos.Yup!

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When the Wii warns you about objects you might bump into, it should explicitly mention hanging lightshades. Our living rooms is now sans light shade after an overly enthusiastic pitch on my part left it decimated. Oh well.While we're on the subject, any recommendations for multi-player Wii games? Preferably ones where both players are on the same team.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-5949108219693417092007-10-03T21:07:00.000+01:002007-10-03T21:24:02.966+01:00

A new day, a new town, a new ring road (one way ring roads are the bane of my existence) and a new parking lot. This morning I arrived bright and early at my destination and nabbed some free parking (yay!). Unfortunately, I nabbed the free parking a brisk 20 minute walk away from where I needed to be, only realising when after 10 minutes of walking I came across the free parking I had been aiming

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-77835772644667307892007-10-01T19:32:00.001+01:002007-10-01T20:00:40.613+01:00

Unfortunately, the photos I took are refusing to upload!

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-65772141581419515772007-09-30T16:12:00.000+01:002007-09-30T16:17:00.698+01:00

Blogging this month has been light. I've been busy and it's likely to continue.I'm also just back from a holiday and a wedding so I'm feeling a bit knackered.BUT I have a new camera so maybe that'll provide some inspiration in the near future.

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In about 44 hours we will be in Ghana. My sister has been posting a daily countdown on Facebook and I've been stressing out about what to buy for the birthday and anniversary presents that are due.The last weekend was spent at the hen-party for the wedding that I'm attending at the end of the month. Over a dozen of us dressed up as bunnies and painted Watford red. I spent Saturday morning in a

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-55808880782389401572007-09-12T20:52:00.000+01:002007-09-12T20:54:07.222+01:00

It's been a busy 10 days. One of the highlights has been the new Wii.More later when I can drag myself away from it.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-89226895016405586482007-09-02T18:02:00.000+01:002007-09-02T18:09:31.338+01:00

Last night the neighbourhood was treated to an Elvis Tribute Performer. I say treated, but I really mean "subjected"; it was awful and even though it was over by 11pm I slept badly all night.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-13118851756269018792007-09-01T18:08:00.000+01:002007-09-01T18:36:15.468+01:00

At some stage after our trip to Ghana, I intend to compare it with our trips to Sri Lanka. This is probably going to be like comparing apples and oranges, but it makes sense to me and after all this is my blog.Stage one was buying the plane tickets.This was difficult because our time off is restricted by shifts on one end and the need to be at a wedding on the other. If we'd had a bit more time,

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-43552287835902448832007-08-30T19:06:00.000+01:002007-08-30T19:11:38.426+01:00

I was going to blog about something interesting but I've forgotten in the time it took me to make it up the stairs.

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The house phone rings.Me: HelloICCD (Indian Call Centre Dude): Is Mr H there?*Me: May I know who's calling please?ICCD: (spouts some crap about calling from some financial institution; I wasn't really listening, my blood was boiling).Me: There is no Mr H.He hung up before I could add "And I have TPS."The phone is ringing again. This time it's me calling. After an eternity on hold:BCCD (British

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Yesterday I spent close to 45 minutes washing my hands with hot water and soap. This was not due to a Lady Macbeth-esque hallucinatory experience but because I had managed to superglue my fingers together.The reason I was playing around being very careful with superglue was because one of the fridge shelves collapsed last week - this little nubbin thing at the back of the shelf that kept it in

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-45321064852626644512007-08-23T19:39:00.000+01:002007-08-23T20:04:55.569+01:00

The Bar Council is conducting a consultation on Court Dress in Civil and Family cases. I along with a number of people ("All members of the Bar") received the documents which can be found on the page I have linked to.I've sat down today and answered the questionnaire. I've spent close to a month mulling in my head how I felt about what I was being asked. The changes in Family and Civil Courts

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... take cake.

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Preparing for our trip to Ghana; my right arm:My left arm:I couldn't take photos when I was actually being stuck with the needles because I was too busy looking the other way.I fully expect my right arm to drop off during the night.

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-38461904960770436672007-08-15T18:37:00.000+01:002007-08-15T18:45:48.023+01:00

I have a few fairly prominent grey hairs. Obviously, this isn't ideal, but I can see why I may be aging prematurely.Perfect way to add 10 years to me: call me at 4.15am waking me from my sleep and as I answer saying "What's wrong?" have the line cut out on me. Then, when I try to call you back, ensure that it goes straight to answerphone; have this happen several times.It is irrelevant of course

Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565845481086249832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344325821123581137.post-88310798638190886992007-08-14T19:31:00.000+01:002007-08-14T19:43:57.578+01:00

In approximately six weeks I am going to a wedding. I'm now doing a reading at the wedding and am alternately ecstatic that my friend is trusting enough to let me do this and absolutely terrified that I'm going to do something silly (burst into tears? lapse into childish voices? forget how to speak English?)Six weeks to practice; if you see someone holding a piece of paper and muttering to

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Not a surprise that somehow Foot and Mouth has made into the first 20 seconds of the Archers. I wonder how hard the production team was working yesterday to get today's episode re-jigged.

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