Annoying the boyfriend

by getting him addicted to something that is notoriously ‘girlie’ in his eyes, but is so calming, productive and when stretching your sights can be transformed into a fabulous wall display.

What is it? oh yes….. Tapestry

This is his first solo effort. The boy done good.

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Furniture shopping

Sitting on sofa’s, chairs, recliners, and more.

Standard backs, scatter backs, foam cushions, soft cushions, leather, fabric, or mixed, arm chairs, two seaters, three seaters, or corners, foot stool or pouffe?

I’ve seen and tried them all……

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In the end we settled for a smaller version of this….

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Now we just have to wait six weeks for it to arrive!

The Perpetual Motion Squad

Sorry, not Leonard’s Physics Bowl team from TBBT, but more the team of Boo and I at Crimefest.

Kick started by the delightful Matt Hilton, and his gregarious wife Denise, we sat on Saturday morning at a table in the hotel bar’s patio area, and we didn’t move. Over the course of the day, as people came and went from panels, discussions, lunches, agent meetings and other such demands, the group sat around us was in a constant state of flux, and it made for a quite simply the best experience of the weekend.

Conversation topics were hugely varied, highly entertaining, and even heatedly debated, with a diverse range of opinion, and discussion.

So I would like to say thank you to

Matt Hilton
Denise Hilton
Shiela Quigley
KJ Wignall
Simon Kernick
Steve Mosby
Lee Child
Damien Seaman
Kate Kinchen
Vincent Holland-Keen

and to everyone else who joined a our team for some part of the day and made our weekend as fabulous as ever.

I don’t think it’s supposed to do that.

A little less than two weeks ago I noticed a strange knocking noise coming from the front of my car.  Over the course of the first week, when I had no choice but to use it to drive to and from work and had no time to get it into the garage it got increasingly worse.

I have avoided using it since Friday last week as it is booked into the garage this Friday, which was the soonest I could get it in.  In the meantime, this morning I risked a trip down to my local tyre fitters as my rear tyres were borderline illegal and needed changing.

I mentioned my issue to a good friend there and got him to drive it into the ‘slot’ for changing tyre so he could gauge the depth of my problem, which he did quite quickly.

With the car up in the air and all the weight off the wheel…. this is what happened.

Turns out, that out of the four bolts that are supposed to hold my wheel on, only one was connected.  I’ve driven a thousand miles since those wheels were last taken off and replaced.  I think someone is watching over me.

Chris Addison

I could sit here and wax lyrical about his surprisingly energetic performance, his well researched and great local gags, or his hilarious meanderings off topic, but I’m fairly sure that’s the sort of thing that most people will tell you all about, when reviewing his current tour.

All I will say, is the one thing that struck me most about his performance, and which I tweeted during the interval.

The best thing about the whole performance was to see that no matter how long he has been on this tour, he is still getting just as much fun and enjoyment out of performing as we were out of watching.

Absolutely brilliant.

Facing my fears

and being mercenary at the same time.

I am terrified of heights. So is my other half, and yet he still agreed to go on this ride with me on a cold and ridiculously windy Edinburgh day.

The look on his face as we stopped at the top was priceless. I just wish I’d been able to grab my camera to take a snapshot, but I was a tad too busy not looking down myself.

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