Unfortunately I have had to give up this year’s nanowrimo. I was not able to write anything on Thursday or Friday, and I should have used the weekend, as I really didn’t do very much, but I did not. I realised that next weekend I am likely to be moving into the new flat, and from then on in I will be spending my spare time painting and knocking down walls. So unfortunately I have abandoned my story. Maybe next year I will pick it up again. The main character was about to get kidnapped and possibly killed as she was getting on my nerves, so maybe it’s all for the best…
I had some cauliflower soup at lunch the other day which was absolutely delicious so it was truly serendipitous that the fabulous Not Eating Out in New York blog posted a recipe for it just a few days later. My attempt is a little blurry, but it was very tasty. I accidentally bought parsley at the supermarket instead of dill or chives, but whatevs – it was YUMMY.
Procrastinating of course… only three days in and already I am struggling with this year’s novel! I have around 4,000 words with another 1,000 to write today, but I think I am going to need to inject the plot with something more interesting because at the minute I’m not sure where this is going… 27 days to go!
MMM this afternoon I made some delicious roast chicken with roast potatoes and carrots all in a creamy rosemary gravy.
Then I made some corn muffins. To be fair, these come out of a pack, but they are so yummy!
I am not sure if I can physically stop myself. If I manage it through the night it will be a miracle. She is having another party. I cannot WAIT TO MOVE.
What the hell is going on there? How, 6 months later, have the parents managed to maintain such a high level of press coverage? Children go missing every single day. It’s horrible, but surely at some point, as a parent of two other very small children, you have to realise that maybe she’s not coming back and move on? Did they kill her? Did someone else kill her? Has she just been abducted? Maybe she is still alive… Surely if she were there would be more than a couple of sightings of her over 6 months? I feel horrible for disliking both of her parents so much, but at some point surely they need to just get out of the public eye and grieve privately?
Update: And now the family have released this image of the kidnapper. Oh that’ll help. Love his beige slacks. According to the Mirror, the picture is ‘chilling’. Why, exactly? This could be any man of any age with a penchant for 70s clothing…
Oh my god. The bank has officially said they will lend us the money for the house. Lots and lots of money. Ahhhh! THIS IS TERRIFYING. I am excited about the flat, and excited to get the hell out of this one, but still. It is ALL OF MY MONEY. The money I have been saving for the past 7 years plus all the money my grandmother was saving for me since I was born. Sadly, that actually doesn’t come to that much, but everything it does come to is going to be GONE. I will get my ISA statement and it will read £1, which is the lowest amount I can leave in there and still keep it open. Scary. Hopefully this means we will be able to move in by the beginning of December, though, which will be great as it will give us a chance to get some stuff sorted out before the new year. I can’t believe it is actually happening! Hurrah!
(I wish!)
As well as telling you the distance between two points, giving you full directions of how to walk between them and displaying a map of the directions, it also tells you how long it will take you at different speeds, how many calories you will burn, and how much CO2 you will save if you were to do the same route by car, taxi or bus. I have already plotted my route home from work and know it will take me 88 minutes at a medium pace and that I will burn 361 calories. I have been all stressing about not being able to run anymore because it is getting so dark in the evenings, but maybe what I will do instead is have a weekly long walk home from the office.
Now that I am a soon-to-be-homeowner looking forward/dreading the impending life of DIY I will soon be living, I have become kind of obsessed with design blogs. There are so many amazing ones out there.
Here are my favourite images from recent trawls.
Desire to Inspire: Margaret Mulligan
I think I found this artist (modernarteveryday) through the Etsy blog original – always some great affordable art being featured there!
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