Last day in work!

I can't believe it's really here! You look forward to something for so long that the 'looking forward' is the reality and you forget that the event itself is actually approaching! The last few 'big' holidays (and some of the not so big ones) there has been so much to do, work wise, and at home, that I've ended up working 'till really late on the last few days before going away; and a couple of times this has resulted in me doing my passing out trick on the plane! Not a really good way to start the holiday. This time we decided to take a day or 2 off before actually leaving the country so that I don't collapse in a heap on the way. Sod's law dictates that *this* time though, the pressure isn't so intense, and I'm not actually in the middle of anything, and don't have too much handover to do. So, a nice steady day, a clean handover, and a nice night out with a couple of the sisters-in-law & their families to get the holiday season underway!

Only a week to go 'till Aus!

I'm so excited - only a week to go now; shoe shopping is iminent, and necklace choosing is ongoing! A few last 'weddingy' things need to be done and a WHOLE load of non weddingy things to be done. Packing, washing, ironing. Some key items have been procured today; ventolins, face cream. What else....?

Ughhhhh I'm not as young as I was!

It's Saturday afternoon, and I'm shattered! 1 1/2 bottles of wine on Thursday night with Dan, and the same again on Friday lunchtime with Jamie. Today I'm fit for nothing! Scotty & Dan are sitting in the Gardener's Arms having a few pints....I just can't bring myself to get myself over there! I can't even think of anything to blog, but as I've not blogged for a few days, I thought I'd better get something on the website!

Blogging from Jarvis & Jarvetta's

A fabulous weekend in London with Nick and Laura - cuminating last night in a most bizarre experience, greating Jarvetta's (Laura's) Mii on their new Wii game - would you believe there are 2 pages of eyebrows? Nick's Mii looks the spitting image of Jarvis Cocker (I'll try and add a picture of them if I can work out how!); hence Jarvis and Jarvetta! It's a fab toy - I want one!

<------- PS Jarvis Lives

On a different note, the dress fitting went like a dream - they're sooooooo beautiful.....! Can't wait to float around in them on the wedding day, and really on any occasion over the summer that I can get away with! Again, picture attached when I can get one!

Day off today!

Valencia trip - getting there - under scrutiny

07:08 Well the ladies are under way; taxi at 4am and the flight just about to take off any minute now. I've been checking the Departures at Liverpool Airport website, and the Arrivals at Barcelona website to check on their progress. More to follow.

07:25 looks like they took off around 10 past and therefore will be nicely on time for their 10:25 (ECT) arrival. Will check back around then to confirm.

11:15 Well I've been in hectic mode this morning but just going onto the Barcelona website, I see that their flight number has disappeared from the Arrivals board, so I guess that they got there OK - even though I didn't see the board say 'landed'. It's now 2 hours since they got to the airport so I'm hoping that the Aerobus got them to Estacio Sants OK and that Mum is in the queue for the tickets! (We took an hour and 40 minutes to get them so hopefully they'll not be as long.)

11:18 Latest update - just looked at my phone for the 1st time since 9am and seen a txty from them saying that they were waiting to pick up their luggage. Text time 09:20 = 10:20 Barca time.

11:21 Latest update - they ARE in the queue!!!!!

Curry!

Tonight we've been cooking curry. 2 different sorts......(1) the famous "Steve's curry" and (2) a new concoction which is our squash curry; which has much to thank my discovery of 'garam masala' for!
This massive cook fest has been necessitated by the fact that I was supposed to be going to London NEXT weekend to have a dress fitting for my bridesmaid dress, however it was moved back to THIS weekend which means that I'll be travelling down the M1 at the same time as Nick and Laura (who live in Wimbledon) were supposed to be coming up. Anyway, they have very kindly said that we can go down there for the weekend instead! However in return we're going to be cooking dinner on Saturday night. Not just for the 4 of us, either! (Nearly) the whole DUBLIN gang are to be reunited at their place!!! So, mega lovely curry cooking for us.

Mum's off to Valencia

I'm so jealous! Been listening to the mascleta all week. I've been trying to find the webcams which we've used the last couple of years to view the activities. One old favourite is in the Plaza De La Virgen. The other one was in the Plaza Ayunamiento, which is nowhere to be found :-(
This time last year, we were there....in fact we arrived from Barcelona on the 15th, the night of 'La Planta' which is the night that all of the Fallas get placed into position in the streets, and really is the start of the party! Look very closely at the picture. You can't really get the scale of this monument, until you see the very small man sat in a sling hanging from the crane, adding the finishing touches. (Clue: He's just above the groom's top hat!) Amazing!

Happiness is.......new stuff!

After a lovely browse in http://www.daleswear.co.uk/ several really REALLY nice things were purchased

1. a lovely red, wicking, north face top with a zip neck
2. Some inner lining socks
3. a couple of North Cape 25 litre rucksacks (his n hers)
4. 2 boot bags (ditto) - of course dan's is the flowery one!!!!!
   
5. 2 water bottles (ditto ditto)
6. 2 power dry tops for Dan
   

I KNOW that stuff doesn't make you happy, BUT, it's a little bit of happiness in an otherwise aching world!

Blogging from the Yorkshire Dales

It's Sunday and we're suffering! 11 miles up (and down) Ingleborough
hill. Last time I did this I was 17. I'm not 17 any more! My knees
throb, my muscles ache and worst of all, I can barely breathe! Such an
old fogey! Never mind. Off to the camping shop on the way home to buy
some stuff to cheer ourselves up with!!!

--
Liza

You have received a new message

What is wrong with the vodafone mms service? All I want to do is post to my moblog from the phone but the MMS to email 'service' insists on adding spurious text....'you have received a message..' errrr, yeah, I have received a message....I can tell that by the fact that um, I'VE RECEIVED A MESSAGE!!!! Not only that but it insists on putting a BIG header through your mail ' you have received a message from +440xxxxxxxxxx' which is never a good idea to have posted all over your blog. On top of ALL that - they insist on imbedding a whole load of adverts and Vodafone headers and graphics into the mail. (Whatever happened to plain text guys?) so that appears in the blog entry too. How crap is that?

Moblog UK

I like blogger - the site is nice and easy to use, well thought of and very stable. However, the thought of being able to post images from my mobile phone has really intreagued me. To that end I've set up an account at MOBLOG UK so that even if I'm posting text over here....I can be posting piccies over there!

http://moblog.co.uk/blog/lizarossi


Check it out.

Nice animal at the Zoo!

Awwww how cute! Went to the Zoo 2 weeks ago and found this little animal!

No mobile blogging from the UK?

It can't be true. This excellent website doesn't seem to support mobile blogging in the UK. Only certain carriers (US ones) are set up to provide this service. Damn! I wish I hadn't started looking at what the possibilities were. I thought that text based blogging from a computer or phone which supports e-mail was going to be the best I could do. Now I WANT TO DO MOBILE PICTURE BLOGGING TOO. It's like seeing the cake through the window, but knowing you can't get at it! Obviously further investigation is required....

• Are there any UK based blog sites which I can blog from?
  

• Is there a 3rd party website that I can send my texts/pictures to who will then update to blogger for me?

Pah! Tecnology.

Gmail on my phone

Will it work?
3rd time lucky.

Test post from Gmail

Ok so on the blogger settings page there was an email address which could be set up to allow you to publish to the blog, by sending your post to the address, thereby removing the need to have a PC and a browser (if you have something like a blackberry or other device for sending emails). I'm writing this from gmail just to see what it looks like when it gets there....here's hoping.

Lets get this thing started

Hello! We've set up this blog so that you can keep up with what we're doing whilst we're on our holibobs. These initial few postings are going to be used for getting used to what we can (and can't) do on the blog - and especially for trying out what I can post from my lovely smartphone Palm Treo 750v
The pic was taken (using the phone) while Mum, Janey and I were on hols in Rome last month....not bad....I'll be able to post more, hopefully, from Aus & NZ