I kept meaning to blog but, er, I haven't. It seems like I've been busy doing things, and also feeling a bit ill, so I hope you'll all forgive me. What have I done since I last blogged..? Nothing terribly exciting. I suppose lots of wedding decisions have been made, so I could tell you about those.

The original plan was to have the wedding in Leicester on the 4th September, but the place we wanted was booked on that day. We started thinking about other places, then it seemed odd that we hadn't thought more about the possibility of having the wedding in Southend, where I come from. I talked to Mum about it and she seemed to think we could work a lot of things out fairly easily. The whole 'building to have the ceremony in' problem seemed easily solved when there were two churches I went to at home who wouldn't mind.

One huge plus point is that Mum seems happy to organise things at her end of the country, so Rob and I don't have to. Hooray! The two things I have sorted out is that we can use the church, and I've sorted out a bunch of musicians to play in the church - the bunch I used to play bass guitar with (my brother'll probably be drumming, hehe).

A reception venue was jokingly mentioned to my Mum by another volunteer at the museum she does things at - namely the museum building. We thought about it and decided that it would actually work, so... it's an old Victorian Pumping Station in the picturesque Essex countryside. We can have treasure hunts and everything. If we go with the pirate theme. Mum even mentioned a band that one of the people at her church plays with, to play at the reception. They play all sorts of things, so maybe they won't be averse to some sea shanties. Hehe.

I dunno, that might be about it. We've been sorting out rough drafts of guests to invite, and thinking about a wedding gift list, and lots of similar scary things.

Oh, and one last thing, I forgot to type something when I did that Christmas present list - the Mr T Keyring that does six authentic Mr T phrases! I don't know how I forgot that, everyone was playing with it over Christmas. You can imagine how many times phrases like 'Shut up fool' and 'Don't make me mad, grrr' can come in useful in everyday conversation.

And as to me feeling ill, I've had two migraines lately, which is odd. I don't usually have them very often. And now I have a cold. All my head tubes are bunged up and achey. Booo!

I'll slope off and do some stuff now then. Bye bye.

I have been mostly.... READING: artemis fowl and the eternity code (eoin colfer); magic private eye 1995 / LISTENING: eurovision 2003; jools holland big band small world 3 / WATCHING: stargate (sky 1); neighbours (bbc 1); britain's best sitcom (bbc 1)