Future Foundry (by alaric)

Last weekend, we went to visit the Mill and take the first load of boxes up to the Bakery, which is now unoccupied (except for being used to put guests up) until we move in.

There is a single garage on the end of the Bakery that I'd never given much thought to, since it was always full of junk and for some reason I remembered it being made of wood. However, it turns out to all be very obviously made of stone (my powers of observation are just great!), and whats more, it had been used by the tenants in the Bakery and was, therefore, now empty. In fact, it's where we put our boxes of books we'd taken up there.

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Free diaries (by alaric)

We get a lot of free diaries. For a start, the IAP sends me one a year; and Pizza Express send us one each a year.

And we use, between us, just one diary; I do all my planning electronically, but Sarah likes my IAP diary.

So I've got two 2005 diaries to give away - nice leatherbound things with little ribbon bookmarks in, lists of Pizza Express restuarants, maps of town centres (with Pizza Expresses marked!), an Underground map, and a little pouch about the size of an Oyster card. Anyone want 'em?

And now I've thought of this very clever idea, I'm going to be putting the next year's flock of diaries up online right at the START of 2006, rather than halfway through...

Second driving test – failed! (by alaric)

Bah. I was really nervous about the test, and had to do a reverse park right near the start, and fluffed it up. Didn't hit the kerb, but took too long nervously shuffling it into place.

Now, I've been practicing them reverse parks like crazy, and can do them really well in the Real World!

And although I was really scared about the test, I'm not particularly bothered about failing - I'm just very glad to have the thing over. It's the test I'm scared of; not failing... I think I need to have some tests that I plan to fail, in order to gain confidence for the one where I really try; and, of course, because I'm planning to fail the first test I won't be stressed, so will pass anyway 😉

However, I would really like to be driving before we move out to the countryside!

Ultrasound scan (by alaric)

Here ya go:

Planned new Tube lines for 2016 (by alaric)

This is interesting:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/downloads/pdf/press-releases/putting-transport-onthemap.pdf

Loads of new Undergound lines being planned, even way out here in Zone 6!