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Mind the duck shit :)

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Katy and I went to a BBQ last night at a coworker's place in North Cambridge. Surrounded by chickens and horses, we ate hogfat and Russian Cornish pasties. All in good fun. We ended up home rather late and it was hard getting out of bed this morning.

While dragging my feet to the cafeteria to grab a cup of coffee, I ran across my favourite fowl couple, Grace and Clarckson. In the cafeteria.

  

Apparently, it's quite common to see ducks wander in in the summertime, pick at the crumbs on the floor and waddle out.

Sa-weet!

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good news, bad news.

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bad news: slept for shit last night, weird dreams and tossing and turning. Had a lot on my mind when I went to bed, which was most definitively not helped by the fact that I couldn't get that stupid Gay Dance song out of my head and was singing it all friggin night (which probably serves me right for downloading it in the first place). My phone is still pissing me off, as are my Canadian taxes.

good news:our kitten has been born last night:

We should be getting him in about 3 months.

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weekend update

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http://www.flubu.com/various_pics/bradgate-apr2006/

  

Katy and I went to Leicester for the weekend. We left on friday, after going to the gym in the morning and made good time to get there, considering how late we left. The weekend was ok. I survived sleeping in that tiny bed better than most weekends, which was a good thing, although my back did make its feelings felt by the end of our stay. We went walking to Old John in Bradgate park. It was a nice, if foggy, day but good walking weather nonetheless.

We also went to see Stu's new kitchen, where I had my first cup of tea in… years, really. Since his kitchen is still in shambles, really, it was a bit funny to see him get teabags from one room, milk from another and sugar from a third one still :) We also left with the most hideous smily-face mugs that I've ever seen, but for some bizarre reason, Katy is enamoured with them and so now they hang on a mug tree in our kitchen… *shudders*

Back at work today, and hopefully it will be an uneventful week. We need to sort out the paperwork for my Certificate of Approval † this week, as soon as we get the forms. Once we have that, we can finalize the rest of the mountain of paperwork that is apparently required to get married in this country. Gotta love the bureaucrats…

†I don't know if I've mentioned it or not but we found out last week that since I'm not a British or EU citizen, I need approval of the Home Office to get married in the UK… You'd think that I wouldn't need to, seeing that Canada is part of the Commonwealth after all, but noooooooooooo. Also, it can take between 3 weeks and 3 months to get the paperwork filled out, and costs the nice sum of £135 just to get a small sheet of paper. Joy.

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Pictures of the wedding venue

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Katy and I went for a scenic (!) country drive last weekend and we ended up at Chilford Hall, a local winery where we will be having the wedding ceremony and reception, barring any unforeseen incident.

When we went to visit, the hall we've booked was already set up to host a birthday party but you'll get a good idea of what the overall room looks like:

http://www.flubu.com/various_pics/chilford_hall_apr2006/

Dear lord, details are actually starting to be firmed up!

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Weekend pictures

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More here: http://www.flubu.com/various_pics/leics25032006/

We survived the weekend, hoorah hooray. My back is killing me from sleeping in Katy's old bed in Leicester. It was mother's day here in the UK this weekend (though it's in May across the ocean) so we drove down on friday after work and spent the weekend there. Saturday was a busy day with going to Ikea to get the last of the stuff we wanted and then into town to pick up a few sundry items. We went to put flowers on Katy's gran's grave on Sunday prior to stuffing our faces full of Sunday lunch. Katy's mom was feeling under the weather because of a cold so the usual military precision of serving dinner was off and we had to play musical dinner plates a few times to ensure that everybody got the right plate. It all got sorted out in the end, after some comedy value :)

This week should be fairly sedate and hopefully we can get most of the touch-ups done to the house decor this weekend.

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An assload of pictures

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It needed to be done. I have finally gone through all the pictures on my website and did a good clean up. I needed to, because I was out of space. My server quota is 500MB and it was full. Madness. I resized a bunch of pictures and it's now down to a manageable 370MB, which is still nuts but less so.

I added a bun of new albums, including the ones for pictures from Montreal before xmas and pictures from Christmas 2005.

A few of those are just sooo funny :)

Friends Places Family Boris
Mardi Gras 2000 San Francisco 2003 Katy Trip Oct 2004 Katy Trip Feb 2005
London 2005 HUPO Munich 2005 PSI Geneva 2005 EBI Retreat Tuscany 2005
Blue Man Group in London, 2005 Montreal 2005 Christmas 2005 Cirque du Soleil in London, 2006
Misc Cambridge pictures
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Random blurbs

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– What does it say about my LJ habits that I need to browse between 60 and 80 posts a day to keep up with my full friend list?

– Katy and I are going to see a pet-friendly 3-bedroom house in Hinxton tomorrow that we can potentially rent for the same price as our 1-bedroom flat in cambridge.

– I seriously want me one of those: http://www.trek-tech.com/products/

– This picture cracked me up this morning:

– I wrote to two siberian cat breeders in the UK to see when they will have kittens available.

– I'm feeling very bleh today. I don't really know why.

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