life

Eclipse

March 3, 2007

Just sitting watching the lunar eclipse. I don't think I've seen a full lunar eclipse on a night as clear as this before in my life. Such a shame that I'm in the middle of London where the light pollution is dreadful. It really is quite beautiful, though – all red and dramatic and portent-y. […]

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The ex-ex-mole scar

February 23, 2007

For those of you interested, the wound is healing very well indeed. My doctor did a good job, and it's a very neat scar. It's still a bit painful at times, when I reach too far, or when I bump it, or my jacket pulls tight over it, but I really can't complain now. I […]

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The Ex-Ex-Mole

February 8, 2007

Well, that's the second minor op over and done with. My surgeon removed 5mm all the way round the existing scar, and has sent that off for analysis too. I now have a much longer incision, which I'll take pics of in a few days when it's had a chance to settle. The other scar […]

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Mole news

January 30, 2007

Well, it turned out that my mole wasn't precisely nothing, but it wasn't particularly anything either. It showed 'moderate cytological and architectural atypia', and was a 'dysplastic compound nevus', which all appears to mean that whilst it certainly wasn't a melanoma, given my family history of melanoma, it might one day have considered turning into […]

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Engagement 2.0*

January 26, 2007

Yesterday was Dydd Santes Dwynwen, or St Dwynwen's Day, which is the Welsh equivalent of Valentine's Day. Both Kevin and I enjoy appropriating whichever holidays, festivals and notable dates we fancy from other cultures – he celebrates Cinco de Mayo, the “Mexican holiday where they celebrate beating the stuffing out of the French”, as he […]

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Tended to by a celebrity

January 23, 2007

My many thanks to Tom Reynolds, our celebrity EMT, for taking out my stitches yesterday in Cafe Nero. He did an excellent job, although it was rather fiddly as the stitches were pulled rather tight. See how neat my scar is though!

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My mole hole

January 11, 2007

Alas, poor Moley, I knew him Horatio. I had a dodgy-looking mole removed from my upper left arm this morning. Luckily my doctor is also a minor ops surgeon so there was no need to go to hospital – the doctors' surgery is all shiny and new and purpose built and comes with a variety […]

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I've got my replacement phone

December 26, 2006

Haven't had a chance to blog before now, but Saturday, as soon as we got off the coach in Dorset, Dad took us down to Poole to pick up my replacement Nokia E61. Phew. I have to say, the staff in the Poole Carphone Warehouse were lovely, and the entire unpleasant experience was very much […]

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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2006

Merry Christmas to you all! I hope you have a lovely day today, and that Santa has seen fit to spoil you rotten!

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Just had my phone stolen

December 18, 2006

I think I'm going to give up on mobile phones. My shiny new Nokia E61, which I purchased a mere 19 days ago, just got stolen. I was chatting to a friend on my way to Waitrose, and when I got there I put the phone in my coat pocket and picked up a basket. […]

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I'm all for not exaggerating beauty but…

December 4, 2006

I just saw an ad on Sky Three promoting the concept that using condoms is cool. Four young lads are walking through the park to have a game of footie. Boy A asks Boy B if Boy B could give him back the condom he loaned him. Boy B says no, he's used it. Intercut […]

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So much for a quiet day

November 27, 2006

Jeeze, but it's been a mad day. I had thought that today would be a nice quiet day – land at Gatwick at 10am, potter home, repack my bags and then mosey down to Waterloo to catch the train to Bournemouth. How wrong can you be? The madness started almost as soon as I got […]

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Sitting. Waiting. Wishing.

November 26, 2006

I'm pretty sure that when Jack Johnson wrote his song 'Sitting, Waiting, Wishing', he wasn't sitting at Dallas Fort Worth airport sitting in the departure lounge, waiting to board and wishing that he was home already. Although, I dunno. Maybe Mr Johnson comes to Dallas all the time and this is exactly where he wrote […]

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Off to Dallas

November 18, 2006

This week is Thanksgiving, so Kevin and I are off to Dallas tomorrow to spend the holidays with his family. His brother lives in McKinney, and his parents are driving over from Yuma where they normally overwinter. Last year, Thanksgiving was a completely different kettle of fish, with Kev rolling around in a muddy field […]

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Legal til 2011

October 12, 2006

Some wonderful news – my T'Other is now legal til 2011! Yes, the nice people at the Home Office have granted Kevin 'leave to remain' in the UK for the next five years, meaning that we won't have to go through all this work permit/visa worry on a yearly basis. (We've done it twice already […]

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