Neglectful me.

I realised I've been somewhat neglectful of this blog - working full time, looking for jobs and doing Mitch's Honey do list means I don't get much time to write more, honest. So, in order to rectify this a little, I've got a pictorial catalogue of some of the things I've been up to over the last few months.

So, in no particular order:

I was joint best man for one of my oldest and best friends' wedding:


Mitch and I went to South London to visit my friend Stig where his daughters painted Mitch's nails, much to her, their and our general delight:


I went to the Falkirk Wheel! It was aces:


I'd wanted to go for ages and finally made it. It's powered by something like the equivalent of 8 irons plugged in. Or the same amount of electricity needed to keep Mitch warm.

I also went to Bergen and stayed with my friend Per down by the fjords. It was lovely. I also presented at a conference, but really that's an aside compared to staying at Per's house:



It was so fantastically dark at night that the window became a veritable mirror:


Per's neighbours had a nice hoose, but a wee bit remote for me:


Okay okay, I'll show you a picture of Bergen proper as well, since it is so pretty:


You can see the UNESCO World Heritage site just to the left of the picture there, it was pretty cook if a little rickety. Not really surprising given its age of course.

Mitch and I went to Brighton where we met up with her brother and his fiancee. Mitch looks pretty in black and white:


I adopted 3 cats. Well, I say adopted when I really mean looked after for a week through visitation rights. The one on the far right under the bed is called Sarah, the one with the arched back is called Stone and the other one is called Kans. We were best friends for a week. Probably because I could guarantee access to the dried tuna. No probably actually, definitely.


Duncan grew a ponytail and had me laughing like a drain:


My sister and her family came to see us and we went to the Natural History Museum and had a great time looking at all the animals:



We also went to St Andrews for a wee trip:




See, I have been busy!

Happy New Year.

I almost forgot to wish you all a happy new year and fill you in on the joyful festivities I had over the festive period. My mother slipped on some black ice at home the Saturday before Christmas and broke her ankle and leg and knackered her ligaments, resulting in her being kept in over Christmas and poor Mitch driving the MacKenzies and Nichols to and from hospital to see her for the duration that we were there. She got out on the 27th though and is in plaster for 6 weeks then needs physio. Merry Christmas! So I headed back to London a few days after she got out and when I arrived I wasn't feeling too well- turns out I had caught some nasty bug from my 6 year old nephew which at least wasn't the dreaded norovirus that the world and his wife seem to have caught (see i.e.good across on the links for a lovely description of its symptoms), which was nice for me at least. What wasn't nice was being stuck indoors freezing cold with a fever and feeling like I'd run a marathon the previous day. On my hands. Paracetamol did the trick until Friday when I was forced into getting some Co-codamol (codeine AND paracetamol) to help me function at some level. It's gone today though! Just in time to get back to work. Nice. Happy New Year indeed!

Answer.

Since you were all so good and nearly answered my question, I'll reward you with this:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/bloxorz

It's fiendishly addictive (I love the word fiendish- my sister calls my nephews fiends, it's very apt) and fun. Don't all thank me at once for losing days at work to it. Oh, and I'll perhaps post a picture or two of Mitch's new bit of jewellery for you to peruse at will.