| Sunday, April 19th, 2009 |
| 6:18 pm |
Graham died on Friday afternoon. It was peaceful and we were all there with him. I'm holding up but it's hard. And I'm worried about the rest of my family. We're waiting for details on the funeral but hopefully it will be soon. |
| Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 |
| 10:56 pm |
Trip Advisor
So I am getting kind of addicted to this site.... anyone else have an account on there? |
| Friday, February 13th, 2009 |
| 2:04 pm |
Edinburgh Restaurants
If anyone is interested here are my favourite restaurants in Edinburgh. This is partly for reference but I am also always on the lookout for new places to try so if you have any suggestions let me know. Viva Mexico - http://viva-mexico.co.uk/live/I love Mexican food and this place just rocks. Atmospheric and fun and very very tasty I always take visitors here because its a great meal out. Dionika - www.dionika.com/ I've always had the tapas at this Spanish restaurant but everyone I know who's tried the specials, which tend to be fish orientated, has raved about them. Went here for the work do in 2008 and it was a resounding success. Towars the top end of the reasonable scale but lovely. Vittoria's - www.vittoriarestaurant.com/ Who in Edinburgh doesn't know Vittoria's? Great for special occasions and melt in the mouth Italian food. Great value lunch deals. Nile Valley Cafe - www.list.co.uk/place/100434-nile-valley/ It's small and a bit shabby but its bring your own, the atmosphere is great and the food is fantastic and a bit different. It's African food with lots of flatbreads and hummous. Reasonably priced so you don't need to splash out for an evening here. La P'tite Folie - www.laptitefolie.co.uk/ We've only been here the once for a friends birthday but the food was just fabulous. I had a lobster pasta dish which was so good I stuffed myself and was quite upset I couldn't finish it. Pricy but worth it in my opinion. Honourable Mentions No 1 Sushi Bar - http://www.list.co.uk/article/6125-eat-no-1-sushi-bar/Good affordable Sushi right opposite the Cameo cinema. Good for group nights out we've found. Stac Polly - www.stacpolly.com I liked it but I felt like the others I was there with liked it more. Special occasion pricy food with really good ingredients. We went to the St Mary's street restaurant and the others are meant to be nicer spaces. |
| Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 |
| 10:56 pm |
I have been putting off this post because I was hoping I'd be able to say "everything is fine now so no one needs to worry". But I can't. G is still very ill and we are a month into this. We have been told he is still not out of the woods. I am back in Edinburgh and distracting myself with work and The Wire. It's not going great but I am getting by. Thanks for everyone's kind words - it is really reassuring. And congratulations to Morgue and Cal, I know you'll be so happy together. |
| Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 |
| 7:43 pm |
Quick Update
I am off to Suffolk tomorrow for I don't know how long. My Uncle Graham who some of you have met is in intensive care and we don't know if he will live. Typing that is one of the hardest things I have ever done. I am going to be with my family. I can't stop telling them I love them. Go tell yours the same. |
| Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 |
| 2:34 pm |
Holiday Reading
I am on the lookout for some books that well meaning relatives can buy me for Christmas. I am not fussy about what I read, fact or fiction is fine, I just want a pile of books that I can work my way through during my Christmas holiday which will include a couple of 6 hour train journeys and a couple of flights to Switzerland. So....What's the best book you've ever read? Define 'best' anyway you like, define it as a list if you like. I am just trying to get some ideas for books that will interest me off my f-list. Thanks guys! |
| Monday, November 3rd, 2008 |
| 11:23 am |
Things I am really really enjoying at the moment:
In no particular order Every Little Thing she does is Magic by The Police The Hymn for the Cigarettes by Hefner Fables Comics China Mieville The Sims 2 Ginger Beer Flickr Ctrl Alt Del's most recent strip Current Music: The Police |
| Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 |
| 1:06 pm |
Begging and Borrowing
Yep my first post in ages is a "can I have somthing please?" post. Does anyone in Edinburgh have a 2 man tent that they would be willing to lend me and Doug for the weekend starting on the 1st August? As an alternative does anyone have camp beds that we could use to sleep within the awning of a hard caravan pitch? I thought we were all sorted but I was wrong. I would be very very grateful if anyone does have such items to hand and are not planning on using them themselves! In other news my graduation photo is rubbish and I look like a squinting loon. Plus you can't see my shoes. |
| Friday, June 20th, 2008 |
| 5:09 pm |
Its been a very odd week. One of my relatives died on Tuesday night. We weren't very close but he is family and his wife reminds me of my grandmother so much (they're sisters) that it hurts to see her upset. As luck would have it I was due to go and visit them on Wednesday anyway because me and my sister were off to a concert there. It was strange and sad and touching and uplifitng and fun at the same time. We (my sister and I) were a distraction for his daughter and grandson and it was good to do that. To be helpful and take their mind off things but also to be there when they needed to talk about him. The funeral is next Friday in Newcastle. My parents were already coming up for my graduation so they're just going to extend their visit. So really this works out well for me but I feel guilty for even thinking that. My sister is up at the moment. She is not with me at the moment. I love my sister but we have a very tempestuous relationship and decided a while back that it was best if we only spent short bursts of time with each other. Annoyingly I don't seem to annoy, frustrate and drain her the way she does to me. If it was reciprocal then at least I would know she felt the same. We have moved. Most of the boxes are unpacked but not all of them. It has been a very busy week. The house looks a bit like a bomb site but less and less each day. I am changing my mind as to which is my favourite room every day. Graduation is very soon. I am ambivalent towards it so far but I'm pretty sure this will change when I go shopping for shoes on Sunday. Because those are my priorities. |
| Monday, June 2nd, 2008 |
| 10:24 am |
I got a 2:1. Awesome. Current Mood:  relieved |
| Friday, May 9th, 2008 |
| 5:31 pm |
Well this sucks
So it turns out there is no fun for me today. I got into work feeling alright and then that turned into feeling like crap. I have stuck it out at work because frankly if I don't I'll have to work all the hours next week to make up for the last few weeks when I've done bugger all. If this is going to follow the pattern of the last few days I will feel ok in the early evening before turning into a shivering lump of pain and having to be put to bed. Which does not mix well with dancing and drinking. So I am going to meet Shevy before she flies off for a quick and bland meal before going home and having a sleep. Because I know how to party... In all seriousness, this sucks. I have just finished my degree and these are the days that I should be celebrating it. Instead I am sulking at home and feeling sorry for myself about how its all a bit shit and how soon I won't even have a student discount to cheer me up. Bah humbug. Current Mood:  disappointed |
| Thursday, May 8th, 2008 |
| 2:46 pm |
Being finished
I had my last exam ever yesterday. It went ok but I woke up yesterday morning feeling like shit which wasn't very helpful. Luckily it didn't effect me in the exam but it meant a night of alcohol and celebration was traded for a couple of orange juices and an early night. But anyway, I am now a graduand. Hurrah! My degree is now over and I think I have to act like an adult. Ugh. In celebration of this I am planning to go dancing at Misfits tomorrow night, before I am there I will be in the Dagda having a few drinks. If you would like to join me you are very welcome, just give me a ring if you're not sure where we are. If there's no answer chances are we're in the club. Now I am off to watch Roman Holiday, read my Rome guidebook and practice asking for wine in Italian. Why yes I am going to Rome in a few weeks, how did you guess? Current Mood: cheerful |
| Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
| 10:31 am |
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| Thursday, January 31st, 2008 |
| 5:11 pm |
Concert anyone?
Anyone fancy going to see Good Charlotte on Sunday 6th April at the Corn Exchange, Edinburgh? Tickets are £16 plus booking fee and postage unless I actually GO to the venue. |
| Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 |
| 5:23 pm |
This month I.....
Inspired by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) troubleinchina and to reassure myself that I am in fact a good person and have achieved stuff I'm going to try and list things that I managed to get done this month. And some that I didn't, because if its there as a constant reminder maybe I will get around to it one day. So: I have researched an awful lot of dissertation and tomorrow I'm going to try a rough draft of Chapter 1. This is very good. I am mostly happy about this, there are however still moments where I feel like I have not done enough and it is all going to go awfully wrong and it will suck. I have got in touch with some of my friends overseas and elsewhere in the UK in actual email's of real length. Those I spoke to are having a good time and it makes me miss them slightly less to know that. I still have not emailed urbankat or sasori to tell them how beautiful their baby is and to thank them for their card - this email will arrive, I promise. Now you can guilt me about it too. On a similar note I have not caught up with coffee_lifeform since she got back from Australia or written a reply to the actual letter Chris sent me from Italy. There are still plenty of e-mails I need to write. I have been to Bruges, Bristol, Bath and Paris and had a great time. Facebook has new photos of me prancing about in foreign climes and the travel lust is sated for now. I haven't booked my flights for my graduation trip to Rome and Naples yet but being so busy at Uni means those of us going haven't sat down and decided on dates yet. I have spoken to and seen a lot more of friends from Suffolk and those people on my course this month. Sadly this has been to the detriment of those in Edinburgh. If you're not in the library or in my Buffy game chances are I haven't seen you in a while. Sorry about that. Five months left and then I graduate, then I can have a social life again. In an attempt to counteract this though I am going out for murderous cinematic singing fun this very evening. |
| Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 |
| 4:58 pm |
Bruges, Bristol, Bath and Paris
So you may be wondering what the places in the title have in common. Well on Monday I will have visited all three in the space of a month. This would be me trying to get rid of the travel lust inspired by Shannon right before she left Edinburgh so that I can actually get on with my degree. Bruges was lovely, picture post card pretty with all the bells ringing at midnight on Christmas Eve while we lay on our bed. BBC1 was also on the hotel TV which thrilled me as it meant I could watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special (and I'd been upset that I was gonna miss it, shut up I'm a geek). Then Bristol for New Year's Eve, Bath on New Year's Day and Paris this coming weekend for a friends 21st birthday. Dissertation work has started, I was good for a whole two days and skived off the second half of today because a friend from my teenage years was in the city. Had a lovely catch up, a few pints and four years worth of gossip crammed into three hours! My house is very cold in January. I would like it to be Summer now please, brrrrrr. |
| Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 |
| 3:37 pm |
Ample Parking
People from Buffy might be interested to know that in addition to the many multi-story car parks in Peterborough there are also lots of posters of foster children and two seperate fake castles. I was treated to a coach ride between Peterborough and Bury St Edmunds over the weekend when the train went wrong. It is not the greatest place I have ever seen. We went out for a Christmas meal last night as well, lots of sushi and noodles and some squirming as a helpful video showed us how you make sushi. And then there was the music. It must have been a greatest party songs evaaar type CD. Which is why we were treated to the Hokey Cokey and Auld Lang Syme a few times. So Number One Sushi Bar in Tollcross - lovely food, good drink, great location (bang opposite the Cameo) and curious choices in entertainment. I spent the weekend in Suffolk being moved rapidly from appointment to appointment and got home Monday afternoon. Monday night was dinner out with D's father, tonight his mother is having us over, Thursday is a drinks party and Friday is the Black Lion Xmas do. Saturday we are away to Belgium for a few days where I intend to eat chocolate and drink beer throughout my Christmas. Anyone on here know Bruges at all? Any recommendations for food, drink, sightseeing and clubs would be very welcome. If I haven't seen you recently then sorry about that, December has been incredibly busy. Thanks to everyone who sent me cards as well by the way, it is both sweet and organised of you. I just didn't this year. At all. We blitzed our family shopping in a weekend or so and are just fixing up the last few odds and ends now. I probably won't post before Tuesday so Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everybody. xxx Current Mood: chipperCurrent Music: HPLHS Christmas Carols |
| Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 |
| 6:11 pm |
On being ill and Vanity Fair
So for the past week I've been out of action completely. Floored by some horrible virus that reduced me to a quivering wreck curled up on the sofa or in my bed for four or five days. Towards the end of which Doug came down with the same thing, but being a grown up with a job and everything has continued to struggle to work. So to everyone who I have missed lunch or parties with or anything I'm very sorry but I wouldn't have been much fun and also probably contagious. Doug was awesome to me while I was ill, it should surprise none of you to hear that I am a bitter and feeble sick person who whinges constantly. To shut me up he watched Pride and Prejudice (Ehle/Firth version obviously) with me, so I'm content for another couple of months. Also on the plus side I've had plenty of time to read Vanity Fair, which it turns out is actually quite long so its a good thing. Has anyone seen the recent film version with Reese Witherspoon? On another classical note I caught an episode of the BBC drama Cranford the other day and was confused by how I recognised a bit of it but not the majority, just the odd line of dialogue or character. Then I found out it was actually an adaptation of four different things by Gaskell, one of which I have read, I have to admit I'd never heard of the others before. So post illness, all my essay deadlines have been pushed back which is good but also delays my holiday by a week or so. Although technically once uni work is done I have to throw myself into the dissertation, all 12-14 thousand words of it. Oh I'm not complaining, I'm actually looking forward to it in a strange sort of way, I guess I like the idea of really sinking my teeth into a research project. Let's see how long it is till I change my mind eh? |
| Monday, September 24th, 2007 |
| 10:29 am |
Loch Ness
So we took off this weekend, went far away from Edinburgh up to Loch Ness and the start of the Highlands. It was a much needed break, lots of time together, beutiful scenery, fantastic food and lots of alcohol. If you're on facebook photo's should be going up soonish if you want to see lots of images of me in front of lots of water and a million and one panormaic views ;) Now just need to get christmas sorted, thinking Munich right now |
| Saturday, September 8th, 2007 |
| 3:17 pm |
How the world sees Shevy - according to me (and Darren)
Hi my name's Shevy and I want you to think I'm a tomboy. I play wargames and everything. But wait, is that eyeliner I'm wearing? I sneak up on you all innocent and then suddenly you realise that I'm a secet girly girl. I pay attention to what I'm wearing and accessorise and everything. My hair is just part of an elaborate venus man-trap... baby... Don't let my big bag fool you, there's make up in there next to my Warmachine figures. |
