reading at work

have recently started to enjoy my job a lot more - since obtaining the audiobooks for "lord of the rings" and "harry potter: the order of the phoenix", and the use of my mp3 player, i'm quite able to listen to them whilst working without any difficulty, or loss of work rate (they actually speed me up i think).
i'm currently reading (or listening to) harry potter which is getting pretty riviting - at the bit where harry's started learning occlumency from snape. the other cool thing is, as my mp3 player is able to play stuff back through a variety of environmental settings, i'm not only able to have lord of the rings read to me by a proper old boy (as you'd imagine tolkien himself would sound like) but i'm also listening to it in a cathedral!
i've also found hem's new album "eveningland" sounds amazing in an opera house, and "demolition" by ryan adams was made for a concert hall (or possible an indoor arena...) and its always nice to have stephen fry describing harry's antics sitting in your livingroom, as opposed to an office.

a strange night out...

actually wasn't all that strange overall. bea and i went out for charlotte's (her sister) birthday in town on friday night to BRB (what used to be the hallamshire hotel) and had a great time.
as it turned out however, i wasnt wearing appropriate clothing. my grey cords weren't acceptable, so i got bea to bring down my newer jeans with the rips in them (not ripped by wear and tear or course, but bought pre-ripped), i changed in the lovely red deer pub, and was then allowed into BRB after all. shows how fickle fasion is i s'pose. couple of years ago, people would not have been at all impressed with jeans covered in rips. today its fasionable. that's what was strange about the night.
and also, bea and i going out in town on a friday night - that was kinda strange experience too. i think we'd forgotten what it was like!

wax on, wax off...

hooray! aftrer lamenting to my friend zoe that my waxer, sam, had left the salon i go to and they wouldn't give me her details, i got a phonecall from her just now! yipee - she is now based at fitness first on penistone road.

robin was crazy with his feeding last night - every hour. people keep suggesting weaning so i'm hatching a plan - for every suggestion to start weaning i will postpone it one week. that will shut the buggers up!!! anyway - recommendation from WHO and health professionals in this country is 6 months so why i should need to be doing it at 4 months is beyond me!

the nct girls are out on the lash again!! sheffield watch out on 11 december - we are painting the town red and we don't have to pay deposits or fixed menu prices!! yipee!!

cool beans.

andrew jones stayed with us last night as he's in town for a conference today. good to catch up and alsdo get a brochure for orkney from him. looks like we'll be showing our faces up there in the new year.

also - i did the most phenomenal poo today. so incredible that i will not even put the dimensions of my creation up here as you would probably shrink away under a great cloud of inferiority...

th 12th annual beer festival, the cask & cutler

boggart hole clough - ruby red
castle rock - stoat
greenfield - ifre cracker
green wood - unbel-leeds-a-bull
hill island - monster mash
old empire - indian pale ale
wentworth - gunparkin

we had a good time.

the sunrises in the east... blood has been spilt this night.

robin and i got to see quite a spectacular sunrise this morning on our 7am wander round walkley.

100 today!

days that is...
getting bigger by the second, just as loud, just as ginger, still happily standing on two feet, almost crawling in the mean time, resisting sleep quite effectively, starting to giggle, still smiling, still chatting away, putting anything he can get hold of in his mouth, drooling otherwise, pooing spectacularly (when he does).
.....iiiiit's robin!