The Rest Holm Times – Archive: February 2005

09-02-2005
– Well, the poor car (I still haven’t found a name for it, and it is looking like it might be a little late now :S) just got picked up by the chap from the garage. He didn’t want to tell me if he thought it could be mended or not, but he did keep repeating “I can’t believe how much that front end has dropped”, and muttered under his breath how he wasn’t sure how he’d get it on the back of the tow-truck. He managed it but it was a close run thing. None of the above is really inspiring confidence in me as to whether the poor beast is repairable or not. Ah well, now I just have to wait to hear back from either the garage or the insurance company. *sigh*

Happy Pancake Day (for yesterday). We actually celebrated it for the first time in a while (the attempts at L’pool don’t count, because we rarely managed to make edilble pancakes). I was flipping like a pro! Great fun was had corrupting the Latvian flatmate with chocolate sauce. We also discovered the secret to eternal (female) happiness, but I’m not going to share, because I feel that the males of this world need to work harder and find it out for themselves *grin*.

Birthday greetings to the newly-straight-haired one, and to the grumpy boy from L’Pool 🙂

The Rest Holm Times – Archive: February 2005

07-02-2005
– Ding dong, the car is dead… Yes, for my beloved car is a smouldering heap in the car park thanks to bad roadmarkings, even worse parked cars, and just plain bad luck. Waiting to hear the prognosis from the mechanic as we speak.

In more cheerful news, I went to the zoo at the weekend! A parental ploy to cheer me up after the afore mentioned car disaster, and it worked for a while 🙂 This week’s quote was overheard being said by a ten year old lad to his mother when asked why he didn’t want to see the zebra’s. So you can add the humble zebra to the list of evil animals that also includes (if you will cast your mind back a few months) pyscotic penguins.

The Rest Holm Times – Archive: February 2005

03-02-2005
– Happy (belated) new month. Just a quickie because I have a 2000+ word report to have written by tonight. We do indeed have a new flatmate, but first impressions are positive. Will keep you posted.

Films watched in January:

  • House of Flying Daggers
  • Alexander
  • Garden State
  • The Aviator

Yes, that is one per week (got to love Orange Wednesdays :D). Saw A Very Long Engagement last night but that goes in the February tally.

And now, I shall stop prevaricating and do some work. Tally ho.