Calm bliss... or is it

Again, a long gap between postings. So this may be a long posting. Rather a lot has happened since the last post, as usual.

Pete, Helen, John and I had a rather good meal at Locanda Locatelli. The food was amazing, really good and really well done. We had a lovely time. Then, there was Naomi's birthday do at Mokoko in St Albans. Na and I originally had a plan to work our way down one side of the cocktail menu, totalling ten cocktails (missing out two we don't like). However, we went slightly off plan and got stuck on rather a lot of Porn Star Martinis. Somehow, we didn't have hangovers the next day, and after a bit of a transport mission, we were on the road to Yeovil at a reasonable time. We got stuck in a reasonable amount of traffic, but managed to pull off a mastermind piece of navagating to avoid Stonehenge, without a map. See, girls can navigate boys.

We had a fantastic weekend, starting with an amazing meal at Little Barwick House and finished off with a visit to the beach at Lyme Regis and then a BBQ. Fab.

Now that I have more time on my hands and can leave work at a reasonable time, I'm finding it a bit odd. I'd slept rather a lot this past week, which is unusual. It's almost as though my body is like "oh, so we get to sleep now. Oh good. Let's do that at every possible moment then"... in the car, during films, on the DLR... too much perhaps, I'm feeling a bit spaced. Kind of have that idea that I shouldn't completely grind to a halt, because then I might get ill, and that's the last thing I (or anyone else for that matter) wants before we go to Edinburgh next week. In fact, I think I should just shut up and enjoy the quiet time whilst it's here, because in the next six weeks I'm going to be here, there and everywhere!

The first stage is Edinburgh though, and I'm very much looking forward to it. For a series of boring reasons, I'll be taking the laptop with me. Pete and I have promised that we will blog (he's going to be a guest blogger) and upload photos as we go along so that Na and Steve, who aren't coming, sob sob sob, will be able to keep up to date with our antics. So, expect some late night drunken blog entries (although they may not actually appear late at night, because we'll have to search out some internet access in a famous coffee establishment I think!)

Oh, and just because I really rather like it, here's a rather nice photo: