Hi everyone, I've missed you so much. Thank you everyone who sent me messages, I've finally got around to approving them!
You see it all happened on a dark evening 2 weeks ago. I came home to find a very irate James and a dead phone line. No phone, no internet, no Sky Interactive. We are not amused.
I have come to the conclusion recently that British Telecom, although they have lovely speaking voices, are a bunch of fuck-wits. Apologies to anyone reading this who is, is related to or knows a BT employee, but all they have done is deny responsibility, threaten to charge astronimical fees, miss appointments, fail to turn up, fail to fix the problem (on 3 occasions), fail to turn up some more and fail to communicate on various occasions. We are fuming. We have a 2-foot-square hole outside our house, the barriers around which mean we cannot use our own drive and make getting into the car park difficult for everyone on the street. They promised the problem would be fixed a week ago and yet we are still without our phone line. The only means of outside communication we have is my mobile phone.
So that, my dear friends, is why I haven't been around. I am now back at work (grrr) and am sending this from my work computer.
Aside from that we had a lovely Christmas. James's Mum turned out to be really good company and we all had a great time. She met my Mum for the first time and they get on really well. She also loves my nieces, which has left me questioning her sanity. But as long as she's happy, who cares?
New Year was also good. Our friends James and Louise from London came to stay and it was absolutely lovely having them. I was sad to see them go yesterday. They're the kind of people who are just amazingly good company and always make good coversation. They're two of the nicest people I know and frankly I wish we saw them more often.
Proof of this is thhat upon their arrival, Nick and Doug rang up to say they were coming to visit us on Sunday afternoon. As I pointed out to Louise, this was only because they were staying with us (you know its true!). Plus Louise is Wiccan and its been great having a fellow-sister in the house. :)
For New Years we went to the ole' faithful Orange Tree on High Street. Now get this, my dear chickadees, I DID NOT DRINK! Not one drop of alcohol passed my lips...well maybe one drop. But it was literally that. A taste of the evening's first round of drinks, which were by the way, on the house. How generous of the Orange Tree proprietors! Coke and rum, which was very nice, but spent the rest of 2006 drinking non-alcohlic cocktails. One was particularly nice and was named a "Twister". This was a refreshing and delicious combination of cranberry and elderflower. Lovely.
Poor James wasn't feeling too good and at one point announced he was going home, which made me very sad. I mean I wanted him there at midnight. I wanted my kiss! So off he went to find himself a taxi. Fifteen minutes later I get a call from him, which I could barely hear over the din of the bar, saying that he was coming back and could I meet him at the door to get the bouncer to let him in.
So in he came. Apparently he'd managed to get a taxi straight away but only got as far as Charles Street (5 mins away) before the taxi driver chucked him out of the car because he was "feeling sick". That 5 inue journey cost him a hefty £7. That's new Year for you.
Anyway, after that he promptly threw up and alked back to the Orange Treet where he felt much, much better and proceeded to drink an entire pitcher of Long island Iced tea all to himself followed by a Vesper Martini.
Well Midnight came and I got my kiss so I went home happy. All's well that ends well right?
After James and Louiise went home, me and (my) James spent our last day of the holiday plaing Tomb Raider (he's getting very good now), watching Seinfeld, Spaceballs and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. I finished off the evening with some Resident Evil 4 and then James read to me from the H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus. I like the way that man thinks...darkly.
So come on everyone what have you all been upto?! I'm dying to hear how you all are.
