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Best and Worst of the UK

Hull 'worst place to live in UK'. According to Channel 4, these are the top ten best and worst places to live in the UK. The best are: 1. Epsom and Ewell (Surrey) 2. City of Westminster (London) 3. Harrogate (North Yorkshire) 4. Ashford (Kent) 5. Stratford Upon

Tiger! Tiger!

We stayed at the Carriage House at Inn St Gemme Beauvais in Ste Genevieve! The inn is the oldest continually operated bed and breakfast in Missouri, every room has a different theme, it's like stepping back in time. Our room had a four poster bed, fireplace, double jacuzzi

Tenth Anniversary

I'm not really here. Hubby has taken me somewhere out of town to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary (tin or aluminium), it's been a wonderful ten years and I wouldn't trade it for anything! I love you! I'm leaving you with cat

Good things

* Our tenth wedding anniversary is tommorrow! They told us at marriage preparation classes "The first decade is the worst." * Going away for the weekend to some mystery location. * Being able to jog for twice as long and sprint for two-thirds as long as when I started running in

Life and knitting

On Monday I discovered the cure for the common cold, it works almost instantly. Struck oil in the back yard on Tuesday and invented a car engine that runs on cold fusion lunchtime today. My cat Quantum got nominated for the Nobel Prize for Economics and the novel I wrote

Skydiving

No-one ever told me before today it is possible to lose a shoe while skydiving. I was with two other first timers, and all three of us immediately tightened our shoes. "If you lose one, just kick the other one off so you don't look like an

Wow!

Weekend to do list * Finish sewing up Summer purse (half done) * Collect Harry Potter book (probably Sunday afternoon) * Drive out to Vandalia IL, watch training video, spend some time with instructor, put on harness and jumpsuit, fly up to 14,000 feet, exit plane strapped to tandem skydive instructor, do

Saturday random

Saw AAA get into my friends locked car in under five minutes, turning up only thirty five minutes after they were called. Wonderful service! I've never seen anyone break into a car before. Taught two people to knit today, mother and daughter. It went surprisingly well. Got a

Britishness

Excellent LJ icon created by jslayeruk: The massive quotes post from Uncle Steve. The London Transport Museum has nifty little bears wearing sweaters with station names on. The official London Underground (aka the Tube) map bears absolutely no relation to real distance or scale, and evolved from a design by

Quantum Tea, Inc.

Quantum Tea Inc. is an official corporation in the state of Missouri. I just filed the annual report and tidied up some tax paperwork, there's a new logo coming, designed by the lovely and highly talented Gloria Buckman, and all is shiny and wonderful. Nothing's going

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