I was never a fervent poster to lj, although I read my friends' updates every day, but even I can't believe it's been 9 months since I last posted an entry. I also seem to have reverted to lurker mode and, although I read tons of great fic, I'm very rarely commenting to the authors - my bad. All that is about to change, however, and - for those of you who still might have some interest in my (or mostly my family's) goings-on - see behind the cut.

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Happy Birthday to janedavitt - hope you have a lovely day.

I thought I'd post a few photos from our stay in Yorkshire. We stayed in a small town called Boroughbridge, a few miles north of York and stayed in a hotel that used to be a 17th century Coaching Inn - ideal for touring around. We had a really lovely time - with no arguments. The weather was kind to us - kinda cold but no rain and mostly really sunny. It was really noticeable the difference that extra two hundred or so miles further south makes - blossom was out on the trees and the flowers were much further along than in Edinburgh. Came home to lots of cards and gifts from the family and we all went out for a meal the day after we got back. Lovely to look round and see all your nearsest and dearest so happy for you.

Sandy and I have been married for 25 years on Tuesday 18th and we're going away to Yorkshire for a few days tomorrow - no kids, just us - seems kinda strange but we're both looking forward to the break. No PC either - even stranger!

Happy Birthday to deborahmm - hope you've had a great day and Birthday wishes for tomorrow to sexymermaid.

Well, Sandy and I took Jamie up to Aberdeen yesterday, having spent the previous day packing and shopping at IKEA and just generally rushing around like blue-arsed fleas. It's a 2-3 hour drive to Aberdeen from Edinburgh and it felt like we were going uphill all the way which, I suppose we were. Jamie had been out for a farewell drink with his pals the night before and hadn't gotten home till 5am so he slept most of the way - God to be that young again!.

Arrived in Aberdeen - and finally located his accommodation. It's about a 15 minute walk from the city centre and, for student halls, really quite nice - based on 6-8 people sharing a flat with a communal shower, bathroom, kitchen/diner and living room with each having their own bedroom. And although his acceptance was so late - the University managed to let him be in the same flat as one of his friends from Edinburgh so that makes me feel a bit better.

We went down to the main campus as I hadn't visited before - went to see the great new sports facilities and the really lovely surroundings down by the river - Jamie's degree is in Sports & Exercise Science. All in all, I'm really pleased with everything - if he has to be away from home then this is probably as good as it gets. Still going to miss him like crazy - but I keep telling myself, it's just the next phase of both his and our lives.

It's 30 degrees C today (mid-eighties F)! In Edinburgh! Absolutely gorgeous but we're just not used to these temperatures in Scotland - not even in summer, so we don't have air conditioning and the house feels like the central heating is on. It's been like this for a few days now and it's really difficult to get to sleep at night. I'm on the first of my 3 weeks leave from work and I keep falling asleep during the day which is nice but making me feel really lazy. Still, much rather the heat than the rain.

Looking for advice. I'd like to be able to sometimes add a photo to my journal entries - looked at lj faq but have absolutely no idea where to look for a "webspace provider that allows remote loading to live journal" which is, apparently, what I need.

Can anybody help point me in the right direction?

The joys of family life - well my family, anyway:-

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Followed a link from Shakatany to a great fic called Second Verse by Litgal at the Nummy Treats Archive. It's Spike/Xander, 15 chapters, complete and absolutely begging for a sequel. It can be found here http://nummytreats.forsaken-faith.org/archive - go read and feedback to the author.

A fic I read recently, can't remember where. It only had one chapter and I'd love to read more. 10 years after the chip was implanted, Spike is starving, lonely and scared and goes to a demon sex club called Hellmouth for work - turns out Xander is the owner. Any suggestions?