Ouch fcking ouch

Insane tournament weekend, pushed to physical limits! Cock-up with rooms. Fantastic team breakfast, one game won, team supper with salad by H, Cards Against Humanity! Lame school dance at the student union, sleep! 8 games in total over the weekend, DRIVING in Audi A1!

Wednesday night Med chicken 2.0 with turmeric - fantastic. Mel's peach / apricot cake for dessert. Order of Service for Ams' uncle. Refund from Leicester Uni. Squash league match against Ozzie Jerome. JB has twins!! Thursday drinks at the Jam Circus with M. Meeting AJ's boyfriend Co in Teddington with RH and JH.

Doing crossword puzzles by phone

The weeeeeeeekend baby!

Gardening! Sewing! Braaing! Playing drums!

Su over early on Saturday morning - long chats while mowing the lawn and making food - saffa chicken and butternut on the braai. Then crack out the sewing machine and work well into the evening with a glass of red. Reading bracelet :) Sunday morning finally oil the wooden garden border out the front, and then do the long-awaited second coat on the deck. Back to sewing - two custom pillow cases for my tempur pillow. Lots of other items fixed. Some drums, with my new cymbal. Plans for a cymbal bag underway.

Sunday evening cooking Spanish chicken for two with parsley from my own garden :) So easy!

Ingredients 8 chicken thighs, skin on and bone in 3 onions, thinly sliced 2 tsp paprika zest and juice 1 lemon good handful parsley, roughly chopped 150ml stock 1 tbsp olive oil

Method Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Put all the ingredients into a large, wide ovenproof dish. Mix everything together with your hands and season. Bake for 45 mins, stirring the onions after 20 mins, until the chicken is golden and the onions tender. Serve with rice. Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2009

SUPERHOT game is addictive...
My first squash league match! Took one game off my opponent :)

Streetcar named Desire screening of the play was out of this world. Free diet coke and Topcorn. Wednesday off work cycling in Richmond Park! What a fantastic day, taking photos in the half-mist. Fingersmith part 2. ESH NEW JOB INNIT!

Car booked for the Leicester weekend... :-O

Paul Temple and the Conrad affair :) Band practice and packing for LEICESTER. Haircut... Asked for Roxette, got Sam Smith! D-:

In the world: Scotland votes 'no' in the independence referendum

Blackout back to light

Team Sweet Spots in Slough for LTGP weekend softball tournament! Barbican Digital revolution exhibition Sunday evening with The Lady. Billy Holiday revealed unexpectedly... Stiffness in the bones, but i feel so healthy! SJ's leaving present finalised and sent off - delivery fail on thursday :(

BLACKOUT with the Raiders Black Team on Wednesday night, Sh party crashing and a mafia talk. Or 3. I am just happy to be allowed to try again.

Oscar Pistorius verdict, guilty of culpable homicide, and firing a gun in public. Cleared of all other charges.

SJ leaving party at Tapestry - die-hards catching very last trains home.

Friday evening squash training by myself to prepare for the league I've entered... :-O Finally handed in my DKNY watch to be fixed \0/

Su's mom's PHONECALL!!

Bam

Naomi in Kings Cross. Took 4 games off D to win for the first time since we started playing squash! Arm-wrestle with housemate M - VERY close! She won though. "At least worth wondering about" T-shirt finished! Freezer party!

And then, it happened. Feels a bit unreal, actually, but how familiar... SP operation, Aunty Beulah passes away.

Fingersmith part 1. Su's mom's email!