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undyingking) wrote2005-09-12 08:58 am
undyingking) wrote2005-09-12 08:58 am
Things I've been up to lately
Nothing too desperately exciting, but this is no bad thing.
Went to look at a house -- we're not sure if we really want to move, but it would be nice to have a bit more space. This one is a 4-bed Edwardian thing with a 100' garden -- lovely place, and the owners haven't had much luck trying to shift it. We have to decide whether the extra niceness is worth the extra mortgage payments. I suspect inertia will tend towards not...
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bibliogirl and rotwang 's very good do in London, at which saw lots of friends but didn't have the chance to talk to many of them -- sorry about that, other folks, hope to see you again soon! It's nice to think that even from out here we can be metropolitan sophisticates of an evening every now and then, although the fact that it costs three times as much to get to London from Ipswich as it used to the similar distance from Oxford is a bit wince-making.
Saturday we visited friends here, and then yesterday went to friend Sam (known to some of you)'s new house and helped clear the garden. This involved felling several mature trees, plus various spikey shrubs, brambles and the like, but now they have a decent-sized usable garden. (Well, actually now they have a blasted wasteland. But they will have a usable garden when the grass sets in...) Very therapeutic destruction! (Why is it so much more fun working in other people's gardens than in your own?)
This morning I was up at 5.45 to take T to the station :-( but means that I can get some work done and then watch the cricket with a (fairly) clear conscience. On which note, I think this past couple of weeks I've had to explain aspects of the scoring system, arcane laws, historical background etc to at least half a dozen previously uninterested people. This is good in a way, but you have to wonder how many of them will stick with it come the next lean patch. To my possibly warped mind, half the joy in watching England do well is provided by the memory of all the years they've done badly. And will county cricket see any correspodning rise in interest? (Btw how brilliant it's been to see Essex walking away with the National League title, after years of fairly miserable league failure...)
Went to look at a house -- we're not sure if we really want to move, but it would be nice to have a bit more space. This one is a 4-bed Edwardian thing with a 100' garden -- lovely place, and the owners haven't had much luck trying to shift it. We have to decide whether the extra niceness is worth the extra mortgage payments. I suspect inertia will tend towards not...
Friday went to
bibliogirl and rotwang 's very good do in London, at which saw lots of friends but didn't have the chance to talk to many of them -- sorry about that, other folks, hope to see you again soon! It's nice to think that even from out here we can be metropolitan sophisticates of an evening every now and then, although the fact that it costs three times as much to get to London from Ipswich as it used to the similar distance from Oxford is a bit wince-making.Saturday we visited friends here, and then yesterday went to friend Sam (known to some of you)'s new house and helped clear the garden. This involved felling several mature trees, plus various spikey shrubs, brambles and the like, but now they have a decent-sized usable garden. (Well, actually now they have a blasted wasteland. But they will have a usable garden when the grass sets in...) Very therapeutic destruction! (Why is it so much more fun working in other people's gardens than in your own?)
This morning I was up at 5.45 to take T to the station :-( but means that I can get some work done and then watch the cricket with a (fairly) clear conscience. On which note, I think this past couple of weeks I've had to explain aspects of the scoring system, arcane laws, historical background etc to at least half a dozen previously uninterested people. This is good in a way, but you have to wonder how many of them will stick with it come the next lean patch. To my possibly warped mind, half the joy in watching England do well is provided by the memory of all the years they've done badly. And will county cricket see any correspodning rise in interest? (Btw how brilliant it's been to see Essex walking away with the National League title, after years of fairly miserable league failure...)