Checking out

Quite enjoyed my stay, the view was good at least. And I've sort of half worked out how to post from my nice new phone which makes things easier... or not.

Dancing to architecture

My contract in London is nearly up and I think the only thing I'll miss is meeting up with my little brother for drinks after work. Last Friday, we met up at the all-new St Pancras for no other reason than my train leaves from Kings Cross and it'd give us a bit more time.

But blimey, what a place. I used to travel in and out of the very down at heel St Pan quite often in my student days, boy has it changed. The rails aren't even in the same place. It's some feat of engineering.

If you ignore the Champagne bar full of posh twits freezing their twigs off, the place is quite breathtaking. Anyone arriving into London on the Eurostar can't fail to be wowed upon their arrival. Shame that they then have to step out into Kings Cross...

It's a stunning piece of work and when you think about it, this must have been the feeling the Victorian travellers had when they clambered off trains into these grand constructions.

There's even a resident hawk to keep the pigeons out.

Happy Birthday Olivia Rose

Here she is just after her first birthday. Cute. Found a load of old pictures this morning which have filled me with even more love for our little girl. More soon!

Happy Birthday to us...

Our blog is one today. Hadn't occurred until Landcroft House celebrated theirs the other week- and I just copied them. So, I've sort of been posting here for a whole year... hm. On and off, on and off. I think if you add up the number of posts... hang on.

114 posts. Now, by my reckoning that's some distance short of being able to celebrate a first birthday. Technically, I'd need at least five posts a week for that, 26o posts. Still, at least I'm trying, right? I do seem to stockpile pictures thinking they'll make it onto the blog, but never do. Must work out how to get pictures straight off the phone onto the blog, then I might be back in business.


We're celebrating a proper birthday tomorrow. Our little girl will be six. I don't know how that is possible, I can remember her being born like it was last week. Anyway, here's a couple of pics of her last day of being five. Luke just makes me laugh looking at him sometimes.