The Miracle of Birth

And today I am showing three people round the flat

Because I'm going to rent it out. Oh, and I have been offered a job with www.gresham-books.co.uk.

And I don't know if I mentioned it but I went to France too

I know, I know

I've been rubbish. I'm so sorry Ems that I didn't get to see you before you went! I feel really bad... here are some photos of what I've been up to in the meantime: camping in Cornwall with Rachel!

Jung typology

I did this test:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

and it says I am an INFJ!

http://typelogic.com/infj.html

Do you think this sounds like me?

I also did an IQ test and got 131, which I was talking to Jess about. We decided that as the median (mean? Average anyway.) is 100, there is an opposite of me out there somewhere with an IQ of 69, and this person is my nemesis. A really crap nemesis. "Quickly, distract her with a handful of shiny pebbles! Aha! Now to put in place my plan for world domination! Nothing will stop me now! Stop throwing pebbles at me, nemesis, that really hurts."

What do you think?

Perfect weather, good food, delicious aperitifs...

I had a wonderful time in Venice

I call this one "The Blood! The Blood!"

A nice, quiet, restrained evening to celebrate Emily's homecoming... guess which one is my favourite?

In response to popular demand...

My fave five from a fun-packed week: The Holocaust memorial, a tank next to the Soviet war memorial, the view from our window, a mural showing the glories of the socialist cccp (ie Russian) space programme, and a statue celebrating the great authors of Germany. In the same square where the Nazi book burnings happened. Like I said, a thought-provoking week.

Do you miss Oxford?

We miss you! Looking forward to mid-May. Photos taken early evening just before going to the Turf with Lilly for a pint.

I done painted me a picture for my momma

This seems to be turning into a picture blog... but I had to post these pics. How gorgeous?

It is Neil's 40th today

Happy birthday Neil!

Just a few more...

Would you like to see my holiday photos?

I won't bore you with all of them, but here is a selection:

This news just in.

I might be moving house in June. More on that story later.

Well, it's done.

I have spent two days moving large items of furniture out of Stanton St John and into a van and then out of a van and into the Bakehouse. My muscles are aching and I could hardly cycle to work this morning. But all the main bits of furniture are now out of the house and I've said goodbye to it because it's being sold early next week and I'm going to be in Rome then. There were six of us moving everything - me, Neil, Rachel, Hal, Daddy and his new girlfriend Carole. Who is a tiny bit of boho chic hippy floaty French stuff who can't heave up one end of a wardrobe and manouvere it round a spiral staircase (over the handrail, brace, turn it through 180 degrees, hold it steady, watch out for the stairlift, down slowly, etc,) to save her life. She did try, bless her, but she wasn't much use, and she nearly broke her wrist. And Daddy was in a foul temper of course because it was a bit depressing, and by the end of the day she was not very happy. So that was an added complication. But it's done now and I'm off to Rome on Thursday! I am going to buy a hot pink suitcase today.

Lilly

Interested?

Shopping

I went shopping yesterday lunchtime at the fag-end of the January sales. Everything is so cheap! I bought a black top, three quarter length, buttons on the sleeves. And some boots, knee high, brown leather, small heel. And a jacket, brown, tailored, waist-length. And a pair of black leather gloves. And some makeup (face powder). And an ankle length brown cordouroy skirt. And some octopus.