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A Bit Of Housekeeping

This week has been pretty busy, hence the lack of posts. Apologies. Firstly, we had a visit from my parents on Monday for a few days, which was nice. On Monday I played host properly for the first time ever for them, doing the cooking thing and everything.  I made lemon and honey chicken with a wild mushroom risotto, which went splendidly well, given that it was my first risotto.  Add this to the lovely dinner I made last night I think I can safely say that I am getting pretty good at this cooking malarkey.

Cross blogination seems to be going very well so far, and thanks to everyone who has said nice things either here or on Twitter. Next week we're going to do something a bit different and take a suggestion from someone else. If that goes well we might start doing that every third week, so if anyone has any suggestions on albums neither me or Gray will have heard do let us know.  Next week's album is definitely out of our comfort zones, so should be interesting.

On the subject of Gray, he is doing a charity tweetathon to raise money for Basics in Hampshire, who provide additional medical care for major accidents. It's a very worthy cause, and Gray will be doing a 48 hour tweetathon, so it should be very amusing to watch when he gets so sleep deprived that he starts imagining pink elephants. I will be chipping in with specially designed tweets that will increase his burgeoning paranoia as the two days go on.  So if you're interested in donating, go here and do your bit.

Other than that it's all been a bit work-related recently, as I've been having some issues at work and have started to seriously think about my options. It's looking more and more likely that we will be moving back down south in the next few years, since if I ever want to be serious about writing it's clear there aren't any options in York.  I finished my last assignment of my first OU module, and so far that seems to be going well at least, although I wish my degree wasn't going to take five years.

Anyway, I promise next week will be chock full of interesting and exciting posts from me, so be sure to keep in contact, wont you?