trains, planes, automobiles (and a tram)
"So this is the new year and i don't feel any different"
After a bit of a blogging break for the festive period i have realised that it was about this time last year that i started blogging in the first place hence the decision to revert back to the earlier title which on reflection i prefer and reminds me i really should watch Mean Girls soon. Anyway some reflection on the season and coming new year:
1. Travel
Getting up to my parents new place was a bit of a mission. My sister had booked it so it involved getting over to her's in Nottingham, then a bus to the airport, then waiting around for a 40 minute plane journey which was to be fair very cool (especially coming back in blanket fog and having to land in a kind of oh look there's the runway 5 seconds before landing way) and made me realise i like flying, then being picked up from Edinburgh so it was a full day travelling. Next time i think i'll just get the train but my parent were annoyed when i explained my reluctance to do this on a weekend.
2. Beaches
Being at a new place for Christmas was strange but on the plus side we went for a walk on the beach after Christmas lunch (beef and roasted vegetables) and the Christmas church service was brilliant; short, accessible, thought provoking, everything St Toms should be. Was remarkable how much we slipped into old family habits though despite the new location. A sub list of excellent Christmas activites: 1. Watching all Season 6 of West Wing 2. Rum butter 3. Reading the Time Traveller's Wife whilst listening to Death Cab for Cutie on Christmas eve- one of those moments when life is beautiful.
3. Films
Disappointing Christmas films but buying Total Film for the train and returning home to Empire made me excited about the coming movies this year. Saw King Kong and Narnia- they were alright but my habit of watching odd films with my parents continues as my family decided to watch Virgin Suicides and Kissing Jessica Stein which i had bought in the HMV sale. So that's a lesbian rom-com and suicidal teenagers then which was greeted again by my dad saying "this is very odd Hugh" (he said the same when he insisted on watching Mullholland Drive with me)
4. New Year
Had a party at ours for new year and it was basically all of one set of friends as the other set were all doing other things. Was very nervous as i can hate new year but it was actually alright even though as it was at ours i would have liked to have gone to bed an hour earlier. Highlights included messing about with J(on) P's cd mixers (until we were interrupted by 12 o'clock), smoking cigars and watching fire works, watching the cornflake box game. Resolutions:
1. 2 cds a month (this month's contenders- Cat Power, Regina Spektor, Artic Monkeys, Annie, Secret Love, Garden State)
2. Try and be happier
3. Not to eat so much chocolate
4. Make a decision about my PhD
5. Beat Lol at squash
Also had a lovely 1st of January watching Firefly (the series that became Serentity) with Abigail and Rob then having tea at Kate and Gnomes.
After a bit of a blogging break for the festive period i have realised that it was about this time last year that i started blogging in the first place hence the decision to revert back to the earlier title which on reflection i prefer and reminds me i really should watch Mean Girls soon. Anyway some reflection on the season and coming new year:
1. Travel
Getting up to my parents new place was a bit of a mission. My sister had booked it so it involved getting over to her's in Nottingham, then a bus to the airport, then waiting around for a 40 minute plane journey which was to be fair very cool (especially coming back in blanket fog and having to land in a kind of oh look there's the runway 5 seconds before landing way) and made me realise i like flying, then being picked up from Edinburgh so it was a full day travelling. Next time i think i'll just get the train but my parent were annoyed when i explained my reluctance to do this on a weekend.
2. Beaches
Being at a new place for Christmas was strange but on the plus side we went for a walk on the beach after Christmas lunch (beef and roasted vegetables) and the Christmas church service was brilliant; short, accessible, thought provoking, everything St Toms should be. Was remarkable how much we slipped into old family habits though despite the new location. A sub list of excellent Christmas activites: 1. Watching all Season 6 of West Wing 2. Rum butter 3. Reading the Time Traveller's Wife whilst listening to Death Cab for Cutie on Christmas eve- one of those moments when life is beautiful.
3. Films
Disappointing Christmas films but buying Total Film for the train and returning home to Empire made me excited about the coming movies this year. Saw King Kong and Narnia- they were alright but my habit of watching odd films with my parents continues as my family decided to watch Virgin Suicides and Kissing Jessica Stein which i had bought in the HMV sale. So that's a lesbian rom-com and suicidal teenagers then which was greeted again by my dad saying "this is very odd Hugh" (he said the same when he insisted on watching Mullholland Drive with me)
4. New Year
Had a party at ours for new year and it was basically all of one set of friends as the other set were all doing other things. Was very nervous as i can hate new year but it was actually alright even though as it was at ours i would have liked to have gone to bed an hour earlier. Highlights included messing about with J(on) P's cd mixers (until we were interrupted by 12 o'clock), smoking cigars and watching fire works, watching the cornflake box game. Resolutions:
1. 2 cds a month (this month's contenders- Cat Power, Regina Spektor, Artic Monkeys, Annie, Secret Love, Garden State)
2. Try and be happier
3. Not to eat so much chocolate
4. Make a decision about my PhD
5. Beat Lol at squash
Also had a lovely 1st of January watching Firefly (the series that became Serentity) with Abigail and Rob then having tea at Kate and Gnomes.
posted by hugh at
10:43 AM
1 Comments:
-what was thought provoking about the christmas service?
-the bit about your dad made me laugh. mine always walks in the room just as the drug snorting, blaspheming, gay romp starts (even if we're watching bambi), which he follows with mutterings of 'what's this', 'are you really watching it' etc whilst scouring the radio times.
-how are you going to be happier?
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