CrouchEnding: February 2007

About Me

Location: York, United Kingdom

I started writing my first blog ten years ago. I didn't really know what I was doing or expect anyone to read it, but my mum had just died of cancer, and I found writing helped me begin to deal with this devastating loss. As the blog was called "CrouchEnding" after the London suburb we lived in, it seemed necessary to end it when we moved to York a few years later. After we had our daughter, I was then challenged to write a new blog as part of 40 (small) personal challenges I undertook in the year I turned 40. And the blogging was the challenge I enjoyed the most. So when the 40 challenges were completed and my young daughter finally got her 15 hours of nursery funding, I looked for something else to write about. Telly and Travels is it. Something I do too much of combined with something I would like to do more of.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Virginia and Steven's Wedding, 10/02/07

A wintry day in Melton Mowbray, home of pork pies and Stilton cheese, a church where coincidentally a colleague of mine was once a choirboy, a wedding procession to the West Wing theme, and a reception in front of roaring log fires in the most opulent house in Leicestershire. Now all three of us who once shared a flat in Tooting together are married. But not to each other, obviously.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

London's Few Hours of Winter

The views from our flat this morning.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Daisies and Lollipops

The most exciting announcement of recent times has been that James, the best ever indie guitar band with rhyming members’ names (Tim, Jim…and, er, that’s it for now) to come out of Manchester, are reforming. What’s even more exciting is that Dave and I have tickets to see them play Brixton Academy in April. We were at their intended-to-be-last-ever gig at Wembley Arena on December 10th 2001 and are unhealthily beside ourselves at the thought of seeing them again.

And this morning we were pleased to see that the Ferme Park Road lollipop lady is back on duty after being hit by a spinning car as she stood by the side of the road a few weeks ago. A completely horrible accident at a notorious junction and I for one am so glad that she has survived so unscathed. Her smile is one of the best sights in Crouch End, brightening up any morning more than I can say.