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Hey, we' ve moved! As much as we liked living in Bermondsey, it was time to trade up to something bigger than our pokey wee flat. So we've traded inner London in for the sleepy little town of Swanscombe, out near Dartford. It's weird here, people actually smile and say hello to each other on the street! We're still looking to buy around here, but for now we've just taken out a six month rental on this wee place:
Our front room. The cushion with the squiggles actually unzips into a bright blue duvet for the sofa. Damn you Ikea and your reasonably-priced genius!
Our dining room. Yes, we own a table now!
The kitchen. If you look closely you can just see our new breadmaker, which is now just about our favourite thing in the world. Fresh bread on a Sunday morning is awesome.
The bathroom. It's the room that has the bath!
The bedroom, where all the action happens. By that I mean, the sleeping of course. Tough room to take photos of, so excuse the standing-in-the-hall-shooting-through-the-door technique.
Of course, the one room I haven't added a pic of is our favourite of all: the garden! Hopefully add some snaps of that soon, so keep your eyes peeled!
Mrs Duffell
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Over Christmas Andy asked me to marry him and I said YES!!! All together now, ahhhhhhhhh 
We were on one of my favorate beaches at sunset (in the freezing cold) Andy did it right and asked my Dad first then got down on one knee. As I looked at him on his knee between us was my sparkly new camera and I couldn't resist taking a snap.
For more photos of our Christmas in Cornwall, check out the photo gallary.
Loads of snow!
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Tons of snow here today! Check out one of London's famous black white cabs!
Liz went and took her flash new camera for a walk, so better photos coming soon! - See arty farty photo album
Halloween
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We did Halloween in style (well in jim jams) this year. We holed up for the day with nothing to do but eat, drink and watch scary movies. I made a scary buffet including:
Breaded fingers and wrapped aliens
Skull platter with snot and clotted blood dip and thiny sliced cat
Witches broth with frozen flies
Slug infested salad with a black death infested rat
Blood covered bread
Bats wings
Childrens ribs
Fresh braaaaaaaiiiiinnnnnns for pudding
Other then a buffet fit for the dead we also watched very scary movies
Not forgetting, of course, the annual pumpkin carving competition! So far the scores from previous years were neck and neck. So we had everything to play for this year.
The master sculptor at work!
And the final result. After consulting with an independent adjudicator, it was judged that Liz's pumpkin (left) had just pipped Andy's one (right).
Andy's note: Of course, you could argue that the adjudicator wasn't entirely independent, given that it was Liz's mum...
I are noww an studant!1! Lol!
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In an effort to stop my brain from turning too much to mush as I slip ever closer to geriatric senility, i've gone and done something rather rash. Well, when I say rash I mean i've been toying with the idea for absolutely ages, but rashness sounds so dramatic and exciting, don't you think?I am now officially a university student!
Presumably that means a pretty big change to my lifestyle. It's going to be a major adjustment for both me and Liz, but I think we'll pull through. Liz is in fact very excited about it, although this may change when she realises that by law I will now have to stop cleaning the flat, eat nothing but beans on Costcutter's very nastiest budget toast, drink copiously, and spend 23 hours a day slumped in a narcotic heap in a beanbag in front of the Playstation. Still, we all have to make sacrifices to better ourselves.
Unfortunately, I will still have to go to work. Dammit. In fact, i'm studying part-time through the OU, which means I should be finished my BEng (and able to start applying for some really good jobs) some time around the turn of the century. Still, even being in progress towards a decent qualification looks good on a CV, and you never know, I may actually learn something useful in the meantime. That's if i'm not too busy puking and going on protest marches.
Darren Pollard gets married and we meet baby Norton
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Also while we were there we meet Maggie Norton, daughter of Andy and Rosie, who I've also known since school (well Rosie I've known since she was born).
Some what unflattering photo of me (thanks Andy) but baby looks every bit as beautiful as she was!
She's got a strong grip, world champion arm wrestler in the making!
We also got to spend some time with my sister and her eldest child Suzi. Well I say eldest, I guess she's techniqually an only child for the time being as the otherone is due in December. Again, hopfully I'll be getting some more photos at a later stage.
Kayaking in Sweden
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In reality, we have to thank Daegal for the inspiration (not to mention the actual organisation) of this expedition. Him and I used to go out sea kayaking in NZ a few years ago, and had a lot of fun. It was Liz's first time paddling, but she took to it like a duck to water.
The area we were in was the St Anna islands on the Baltic coast of Sweden. It's made up of thousands of small rocky islands called skerries. Some are just a rock poking above the waterline, while some are big enough to have trees, houses and animals on them. The sheer number of these islands meant we had plenty of places to pull the boats up and pitch camp, but also made navigation hellish. Many, many times over our four-day trip we had to stop paddling and huddle over a map and compass to try and sort out just where on Earth we were. Well, when I say "we" I only mean one of those people in that picture. Liz mostly took the map reading sessions as an opportunity to eat sweeties!
You can check out all the pics from the trip in the gallery
Ebbsfleet International.
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