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This is me

If you were being kind you'd probably describe me as a petite brunette and use words like 'cheerful' and 'friendly'.

If you weren't feeling so nice, you'd probably call me a short, grinning imbecile.

I'm hoping you're the nice kind...

Interests include:

Wine-tasting - I did a course, so can now tell people lots of dull facts about soil types in the Rhone Valley but still can't reliably pick out a decent bottle in the Off Licence (sigh)
Yoga - not obsessively, just occasionally
Food - both cooking and eating
Poker - Texas Hold'Em, naturally. I've almost cured my addiction to watching it on telly but I lapse occasionally. Maximum real-life winnings: thirty quid
Reading - I generally get through two or three novels a week. I get irrationally delighted when one of them is actually worth reading
Writing stuff - when I was an angst-ridden teenager, I used to love writing short stories, but I've rather lost the knack now I'm happily hitched and haven't so much to get angsty about!
Art and antiques - see, just when you thought I was sounding quite interesting, I go and drop in a clanger like this. I'm not actually an Antiques Roadshow devotee, I just happen to have acquired a few nice bits of furniture and a couple of lovely paintings and they make me very happy
France - what's not to love? The weather, the food (see above), the wine (again, see above) and, although it seems to have become cool in recent years to claim that French people are unwelcoming and unfriendly, in my experience, they're quite the opposite!
Cricket - I know far more about cricket than any normal person needs/wants to, thanks to the obsession of my beloved other half. It must be contagious as I now rather like the darned game...

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Proud mum
Aug 22, 2006

So, why no journal entries for a while? Well, I've been a wee bit busy...

In the last year I've produced two brand spanking new websites (not on my own obviously) and one beautiful little daughter (ditto... although I can claim credit for most of the hard work on that one!)

Not bad, eh?

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A national sporting triumph... and a small personal achievement
Aug 8, 2005

In honour of England's heroic victory over Australia in the second Ashes Test, I've made a small gesture of my own: I've submitted my first entry to the Guide (cricket-related, naturally).

I'm very excited. And rather proud.

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Cricket but no tv
Aug 5, 2005

So, it's 2nd Test, Day 2 and England look like they're doing ok. We made 407 yesterday and have taken 3 wickets this morning (yay! )

So what's the problem?

Well, despite the fact that there are televisions all round my office, I can't watch the cricket as they're all tuned to news channels. Obviously, this is what they're intended to be used for but wouldn't it be nice to keep an eye on our boys?

I didn't get to watch Wimbledon either.

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Meet Harry Lime...
Jul 29, 2005

We've acquired a new pet.

Last night, the Other Half got home to find a Lime Hawk-Moth caterpillar attached to his cricket bag. (OH turns out to be alarmingly well informed about caterpillars and moths. Should I be concerned by this?)

We've now established the little chap in a box in the kitchen and have fetched him a good selection of lime leaves to munch/sleep on.

So what would a Graham Greene fan like OH nickname a Lime Hawk-Moth? Why, Harry Lime, of course!

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London feeling nervous?
Jul 28, 2005

Three weeks after the first London bomb attacks, and just one week after the second attempts, I wasn't entirely surprised by the heavy police presence at train and tube stations this morning.

It seems I'm not alone. One rather revealing conversation overhead on my way in to work:

"Loads of police around this morning."
"Well, it's Thursday, isn't it?"
"Yes, but it'll be next week, won't it? It's every other Thursday."

There seems to be an expectation by Londoners that there will be more attacks. We negate the fear by making light of it. By discussing the likelihood of a terror attack in the same way as discussing the likelihood of a thunderstorm, you take away its power to intimidate. Bravo, London!

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