Disappointment

Got home after work yesterday to a phone message from the people who we were going to Japan with to say that they have had to cancel the trip because not enough people have booked to go.

So we're going to try and rebook the trip for next year and in the meantime find somewhere else to go in November.

But, bugger.

Less disappointing

We are now going to Egypt in November instead! 4 days on the Nile and 3 days in Cairo. Seeing as Egypt has always been one of those other places we always wanted to go we are not too disappointed (and a grand cheaper as well...).

There is an optional trip to see a light show around the pyramids. Is it just me or does that sound just too Las Vegas?

The ABC of me

Gacked from desperance & mevennen:

The ABC's of Me.....

A - Accent: More or less RP, though without the compulsion to use 'one' when I mean 'I', with occasional sidesteps into London-esque and my native Hampshire.

B - Breakfast Item: Juice, tea & cereal.

C - Chore you hate: Pretty much all of them, frankly. There is a special hell for the person who invented weeding...

D - Dad's Name: Malcolm John

E - Essential everyday item: A book!

F - Flavor ice cream: mint chocolate chip or mango.

G - Gold or Silver?: Not really a jewelry person. Silver watch & gold wedding ring, but that's it.

H - Hometown: No town but a farm between two villages close to Andover in Hampshire (only a few miles away from where I live now).

I - Insomnia: Yes, intermittently (though not as much as I used to).

J - Job Title: Lead Designer. Don't expect it to mean anything to you. I'm not sure what it means myself most days...

K - Kids: No.

L - Living arrangements: detatched bungalow in a small Hampshire town, with wife and cats.

M - Mum's birthplace: Yeovil, Somerset

N - Number of significant others you've had: 1 (reader, I married her).

O - Overnight hospital stays: None

P - Phobia: Spiders.

Q - Queer: Nope.

R - Religious Affiliation: Missing in action. Usually describe myself as 'lapsed baptist'.

S - Siblings: 2 living (older sister, younger brother), 1 not (younger sister).

T - Time you wake up: around 6 a.m during the week, 8-8:30 weekends.

U - Unnatural hair colours you've had: Used horrible black spray when playing a mexican in a show once, other than that WYSIWYG.

V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: None, though not really fond of spinach.

W - Worst habit: you think I'm going to admit any here?!

X - X-rays you've had: teeth (every year), ankle (about 15 years ago), knee (about 30 years ago).

Y - Yummy: Chocolate (though I wish I didn't...).

Z - Zodiac sign: Frankly think it's complete crap, but I'm a Scorpia, and we're like that...