yes i've had an evening wasting time on the internet

thanks to paul, I've just split my sides at these fantastic reviews on amazon. You may well already know about it but I had to spread the word just in case. trust me it's worth the mouse click....

oh boy oh boy oh boy

i've just found the BEST flickr group ever here my work here is done.

oh boy. top night.

we drank verious forms of cocktails, helpfully created by the master team (commonly known as Rada. John G and John E). We socialised and gossiped. We crammed 32 people into our house. we danced to "let's hear it for the boy" and we finally crashed and burned about 3am.

we then had to face the carnage this morning..... (but it was sooooo worth it). Cocktails rule!

evidence in photo format sometime this week.....

there's a lot of alcholol in this house. it could get messy

this weekend I have been mostly binge-drinking.

working in an office in a small warehosue style building in the middle of boscombe down, one of the flattest parts of the country, was not the most pleasant experience today. At times I felt like I was Dorothy about to be whisked off away from Kansas to Oz.

There's no place like home....

decisions

we're off to London in February to do the tourist bit. I promised Paul as part of his birthday present last May to take him on the London Eye and (cunningly) I have also noted that there's a Miffy exhibition on at the V&A Museum which finishes in March so I needed to get my skates on. He's accepted the futility of putting up a fight on this one and is taking the "if you can't beat them...may as well get a weekend away out of it" approach, bless him!

Anyway, we have spent the evening pondering on places to stay, weighing up the ridiculous costs of hotels centrally with the benefits of locality, compared to the cheaper ones that sit way outside the centre. It soon became apparent, however, that despite our attempts to make solid judgements based on fair and appropriate criteria (we both like to look at the reviews of places on Tripadvisor and Venere), when it came down to it, we were both influenced by the same thing - bedlinen. Yes hoteliers of the world take note... you can have the nicest website, the best prices and fantastic locality, but if you've got a picture on your website of a double bed with a dark tartan/pink flowery/or depressingly striped bedcover, you ain't getting our custom.

And to think I spend hours training managers on how to recruit employees based on objective criteria and not "gut feeling". I'm so ashamed.