An Update with Some Photos

Joni says blogging is all about photos and linking to things, so here is an update of what I have been up to, with some photos which I like. My regular stalkers will probably have seen a lot of these photos already. In fact you might even notice one or two of these pictures wasn't even taken by me.

First up a few pictures from my birthday, as I get really over excited by birthdays and totally haven't gone on about this one enough yet. This is a picture from the restaurant, Hendersons where i had lunch with Joni, M&D, and around about this moment they sang a quiet, but enthusiastic round of "Happy Birthday".

 Next up a picture of Joni and Me outside what we are unofficially calling "Our Next House" aka Holyrood Palace. What? Can't a girl dream?

This is a picture of my fabulous Lemon and Blueberry Work Birthday Cake hand crafted by John (and he claims his wife hardly helped at all!). This picture should have gone on Facebook on the day, my apologies for my memory laps. 

And the final birthday related photos - a little birthday present to myself. Bought within 7 days of my actual birthday, they definitely count! The plan is to wear them to the conference next week for that "Yes I am a sensible student, but there something a little bit different about me.." look. Also going to wear them to see Granny and family the week after, to remind them studying science doesn't make me boring!

Now on to an update on the flat situation. All this week the decorators and some other people have been working hard on our flat. This Friday we broke in again to take a few pictures. The walls are all done and painted (yes, they are staying that miserable grey colour!) and this wooden flood has been lain. Supposedly the cabinets were going back up on Friday, but that doesn't seem to have happened. Still, definite progress has been made and there is now 2 lovely new light fittings in the ceiling, and the spare room seems just about finished.

Disappointingly, we got home on Friday to find the mess which has taken over the corridor outside our flat, has now spread into our hall. Seriously not impressed, and whoever shows up on Monday had better sort it out sharpish, or I might have to get angry at them.

Still, all in all, a good week. The building work still looks set to finish next Friday as planned. Next week I might email the landlord to ask about a cleaner, since the rest of our flat is now coated in dust, again.

The defining feature of this week has been Louise's animals, so last photo of the day here are the bunnies playing "find the carrot". They were crap at it, but they were quite fun to play with for 10 days. Having Louise's kitchen for the last 10 days really has been a God-send, I don't know what we would have done without it. I really can't wait to get our kitchen back now, I'm very fed up of being surrounded by builders and dust and mess.