Blood will Flow

I'm away at my mum's and my laptop has gone kaput. Which wouldn't be so much of a problem except I can't remember half my passwords for important sites like emails and my online file backups.

Oh well. I'm awaiting a phone call from Apple support, as the chap I talked to online last night couldn't work out why it wouldn't reboot in recovery mode.

In the meantime I'll be using my iPad (minus access to some of my emails because for some reason it doesn't pick them all up) and my mum's laptop.

Wish me luck!

Hi darlings, I'm back from Lovely Lisbon and found that this had been posted on Twitter while I was away. So I've uploaded it to Youtube. I'm sure there'll be multiple copies on there but I couldn't find one.


Back to the holiday weekend! It was hotter in England than Portugal, which is just nutty, but it was still blooming hot enough for me. Our apartment looked really run down from the outside, and was opposite one of those tiny shops that sell everything, and had some very dodgy blokes hanging round outside from 11am till midnight - but the inside was really nice and airy. Not that we spent much time there, what with birthday celebrations and sightseeing, and of course, eating.

Here's a small picspam to whet your appetites for a visit one day - quickreaver I'm looking at you! I'm certainly planning to return, as three days wasn't anywhere near enough time to see everything.
One of Paul's photos of me in the castle - nice to see the warning after we'd walked all round the scary high walls with no guard rails... LOL( Read more... )

We arrived in Lincoln mid afternoon and laboured our roundabout way up to the old Bishops Palace to find our rather marvellous accommodations...
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There's a few of you ole ex-Colonials on my Flist so here's a little fun SPN thanksgiving gift to y'all.

Poor Dean, perhaps this was the wrong day to get bewitched?


And in the spirit of thankfulness generally - thanks to everyone on my Flist for being such a great bunch of peeps.

We've done a lot of walking since Monday! It's been very pleasant to be able take our time over things though. We've been here so often that there's no longer any rush to cram in this site or that, because we've seen mostly everything we ever craved to see at least once or twice before. That didn't mean we couldn't find some new and interesting things to fill our time with this visit though - in between the pizza rustica and gelato, of course.

So here's a few of my personal highlights from this time round.
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Got to the stadium early to catch the start of the men's Heptathlon's final day - that was a good competition, really quite close, so the 1000m final event actually could have changed the results. I love it when that happens in the multi-events, it makes it so much more exciting. Our posh seats were invaded later on by two sets of parents - both their kids were running in the 1500m, on in the women's and one in the men's. The girl, Rosie, didn't do too badly but only managed 6th, but the lad, Chris O'Hare worked his cotton socks off and got a bronze medal. He then came up and joined us so he could give his mum his flowers - cute.
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I managed to get around without the crutches after day 2,( Holiday picspam under cut... )

A little bit about my Roman Holiday, with pics, of course.  Mega late but never mind.
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I haven't written up Days 1 and 2 but never mind.  Here's Day of indulgence #3, in this week of pure (non Papal) indulgences.

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I haven't written up Days 1 and 2 but never mind.  Here's Day of indulgence #3, in this week of pure (non Papal) indulgences.

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