Things I have recently been doing

My long absence is inexcusable, readers. Inexcusable! I have been ill and busying saying yes to anything that anyone asks me to do. It’s not a great combination because it makes the getting-better part quite hard. Let me give you a little insight into my recent activities.

1. Working at a wedding on a boat in Greenwich. I’m not making any judgements about anything/anyone. I’m just saying East London is a bit grey. The lack of trees made me sad. I don’t mean cool-fashionable-east-of-central, like Shoreditch or Brick Lane. I mean east east. Like, almost isn’t classed as London anymore. It is grey and brown and industrial.

2. Going to North London for Christmas dinner with my fabulous friend Bianca of lovefoodlovefashion and some other friends we went to university with. Christmas jumpers were a required part of the evening and there was food and fun aplenty.

3. Getting an amazing reaction after posting this picture on my friend’s Twitter/Facebook/Instagram accounts.

The social media public were loving it! It was such an amazing feeling. World domination is but a small step away.

4. Buying a new laptop. Because what happened was, it was time to watch Breaking Bad so we were switching the cables over so that we could get the computer screen up on the TV and there was a little spark and a pop and then the smell of smoke from the computer. Then the light on the front went orange and there was no turning it on. Apparently it was the motherboard, which is so expensive to replace, you might as well buy a new computer. Dammit. So a new computer it was. We were at a crucial point in Breaking Bad and we had to watch the next episode! Had to.

5. Realising all the stuff that was on the computer that is now lost forever. Both my NaNoWriMos are gone. Not that I was on the verge of publishing them or anything. But yeh. Now they’re gone.

6. Having the longest cold of my life. It is just dragging and dragging…. The sore throat has passed but it just won’t quite go away.

7. Falling over in a load of mud. I’d barely walked out of Ham House and was making my way down to the river and down I went like a sack of potatoes. Mud everywhere. Trousers, arms, hands and shoes were covered. The side of my tshirt got splattered too. So for the rest of the half hour walk, I was wet and filthy. People kept looking at me and I just kept smiling, all friendly, like there was nothing all over me.

As you can see, it’s been an eventful few days!