October

where to begin??

i guess the best news first! i got my indefinite leave to remain. thank god. i don't think it was really a problem, they cleared me within days. but it was just such a hassle and the timing of it was horrible. especially when i was trying to plan trips, etc. to your side of the world. oh well. i have it now. final step next year, then that'll be the end of it!

went on a short break to snowdonia. rented a cottage like in the highlands, which was the sweetest cottage you'd ever seen. set in it's own private land, with a river running at the bottom of the garden. saw a lot, but the best (hardest!) bit was that we climbed the mount snowdon on my 29th. lots of people do it every year, but not a lot of them come up the pyg track!! i'm always going to remember what i did because of it! it was worth every hard step and scramble.
it was beautiful up there, definitely worth another trip just to see all the castles and stunning views!

oh. cooper now has a criminal record! (haha!) we have someone who comes to walk him every thursday (or when i can't make it home for lunch). well, on this particular walk, he decides to fly around a hedge and basically got himself lost from the pack. pj had to go home to help walk around the fields looking for him! where was cooper? he followed his nose into someone else's backyard and was raiding their rubbish bins!!! they brought him to the police station, where the police put him in a cell while waiting for us to collect him! he's a nightmare! i swear. did i tell you that he also chewed on some dishwasher tablets? we had to call the emergency poison control centre just to find out if he was in any danger. so he's a statistic there too.. dalmatian eating dishwasher tablets. sus.

it's dark outside now, and november is a couple of days away. i've got lots of travel coming up for work for the next couple of weeks, to be capped off by a meeting in paris for the new study i'm on! it's not as glam as it sounds, we've been booked into the hyatt next to Charles De Gaulle! ; )

will post again soon, but in the meantime, i'll put up some pics.

moo.