Achoo

Hello.

Sitting here with a head full of what feels like cotton-wool and a lemon honey drink - the vital nip o' whiskey is missing due to my flattie devouring my entire bottle of Famous Grouse. I have taken the day off work due to a painful chest cold. Such is life!

Hence, I don't really feel like posting but I owe it to my loyal fans out there in internet land. Looking at the screen doesn't hurt my head as much as earlier today, so I'm looking at a glass half-full.

These last couple of weeks have been pretty interesting to say the least! The course was wonderful, extremely difficult, painful and very rewarding. Coming back to work has been an exercise in banging my head against the wall, yet slowly making progress with my little project. It snowed in London for the first time in 11 years. Plus I've made some new friends!

Muh. This is too difficult. More to come.

Love
C.

In brief

HI! Some points (in the order of my choosing):

• Leaving tomorrow for 10 days of sitting very very quietly in Wales. Planning to levitate home but have purchased return ticket just in case.
• Drove to Brighton at night on a whim (which I would later find out is the gay capital of England - although I could not find their parliament buildings). Walked out onto Brighton Pier through the amusement park which was closed for the evening and extremely creepy.
  
• New laptop already broken 1 day outside of full replacement guarantee. Currently under repairs. Hopefully this will fix the crunching noises and the not working.
• Have learnt how to tie three different rope-knots: the Figure-8 Follow-Through, the Stopper knot and the Clove-hitch. Can now also climb walls without getting into trouble. Card to prove it.
• Successfully stopped a fight between the German and the Italian. Fight caused by Italian's refusal to stop smoking cigarettes in the bathroom during his morning bowel excavation, having agreed a compromise to stop smoking in the kitchen. The German reasons his sense of smell will be greatly enhanced during his upcoming annual 5-day fast, and would not accept any compromises.
• New rules stipulated by the landlord state that the bathroom is now a non-smoking area.
• Italian appears constipated but not confirmed.
• German commences fast with the use of a laxative.
• New Years eve spent with friends wandering around London in an unsuccessful attempt to find an open pub. Beers sought at nearby off-licence and enjoyed by sitting at abandoned outdoor furniture. Watched fireworks from the bridge and didn't get trampled on by hoards of people. Gave my friends girlfriend a foot massage while he watched.
• Cooked my first roast dinner on Christmas day which I shared with my good friend Lawn. Got drunk on french champagne and Trappist ale. Saw Black Santa.
• Spent £6,000 (of my bosses money).
  
• Watched a pretty cool movie just now called Lucky Number Slevin. You should see it.
• Got a bit slack and didn't update my blog for a while. Posted some of my recent getting-up-to's in such a fashion that they sound exciting and debonair. Decided that it's not necessarily about what you do but how you look at it.

Don't worry if you don't manage to stick to your New Years resolutions as well as you think you ought to. I guess it's healthier to think of them as guidelines rather than hard and fast rules.

See you again in a couple of weeks. I'm off to confront my demons - yay!

Love
C.