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In an attempt to write here more regularly, I present to you Web Monday. A couple of websites hand picked by me in which you’ve proberbly heard of months before I have. But, you know, it’s Monday, we’re all back on our desks and we all need a little distraction from time to time. To start us off I have two sites I’ve been looking at for a while and have managed to produce many hours of entertainment for me.

The first, FAIL blog for all the pictures of boats crashing into houses than you could ever need. The second website is Offbeatbride a site full of red wedding dresses, rockabilly stationary and lovely photography.

Well, ahem. It’s been a while hasn’t it? I’m rubbish. In my defence, I have been busy. Mainly wedding venue hunting. We spent a lovely week travelling round Dorset visiting relatives and looking at very nice and very expensive venues. If you want to have a look at pictures, there’s a set on my Flickr.

Anyway, we’ve found a venue. Athelhampton House near Puddletown. It’s a beautiful old house with amazing gardens and the Olivier film Sleuth was filmed here. Here’s a picture:

It’s lovely and this picture doesn’t do it justice at all, but you get the idea.

There’s a good chance that this blog will turn into a wedsite for the next few months, but I’ll try and include other things too. Such as the peppers I’m growing! Wooo!

It’s covered in aphids already.

I promise I won’t leave the next blog post for so long next time….

Coming home from work last night I had a bit of a shock. On the train journey where the train comes out from underground to the surface between Highbury & Islington and Dreyton Park I was met with a glorious orange glow. At first I thought it was a big plastic sign. Then I realised this was the sky and thought London was burning. Then I finally realised that I was looking at the sunset. For the first time in months I was travelling home in daylight. It was a fantastic feeling to see actual evidence of spring and realising that it’s not going to be long before the clocks go forward. The daffodils have come out in the pot just outside the flat too, which is nice (although I can’t help thinking it’s still a little bit early for them isn’t it?). I’ll take photos soon. Meanwhile here’s a photo from my friend Martin who managed
to take a lovely shot of last night’s sunset.

Well Iceland was very nice indeed. Bloody cold, but very cool (if you’ll excuse the bad pun). Iceland had been getting the worse snow storms for thirty years so Dave and I had fun playing around in the snow, walking through blizzards and trying not to slip and break our ankles on the ice. Reykjavik is a great little city if unbelievably expensive (it was about £18 for a pint of beer and a vodka and lemonade!). We didn’t see much of it as our Saturday was spent on a tour visiting waterfalls and geysers and on Friday it was raining so hard we couldn’t really go out. The highlight was the Blue Lagoon. A total tourist trap, yes, but totally worth it. There’s something quite magical about sitting in what feels like a hot bath with this milky water around you surrounded by big clumps of lava with a blizzard blowing. It’s worth visiting Iceland just for the Lagoon. Here’s some photos!

That’s the Blue Lagoon. Awesome isn’t it? This is a cold Dave:

I know I said the Blue Lagoon was the best thing of the weekend, but actually it was the second best. The best thing that happened over the weekend was Dave proposing. Obviously I said yes. Yay! We’re getting married! *cue girly screaming and jumping round the room*

Hullo! It’s been a while since I’ve written anything and for that apologise. I’m back from Oz and back to work and missing down under greatly. It was brilliant there, not having the experience of travelling before I’ve spent the last couple of months with eyes wide open and have enjoyed a form of freedom and immense happiness not felt before (not that I’m unhappy here, but you know what I mean) and I can’t wait to go wondering again.

Which is a lot sooner that you might think! While I was away, Dave decided that for his birthday (which is today) he’d go away for a weekend and drag me along. Well our bags are packed and we’re getting ready for bed for a very early start tomorrow morning. We’re off to Iceland! It’s going to be awesome. I’m a very lucky girl.

Flighty: Thanks again for all your comments during my trip, it was always great to hear from you.
Burro: You’re back! It’s been a while. I’ve been meaning to email you for a while to see how you’ve been getting along, especially after you mentioned the thing you and the wife have been working on. I think I can guess what that is, but I’m a girl and I want details!

Once I’m back in Blighty next week I’ll start anew on this here blog as it’s been kind of floating for the past few months (I think the Aus trip was the first time in ages this place was used properly) I’ve got a few ideas and hopefully I’ll be posting a lot more often. Lucky you!