Home Again Home Again

i am home from my holidays safe and sound, not too much damaged after the hard living that always ensues when i spend time with fraser. aye, he's the devil, he is. it's clear by looking at him, idnit?
honestly though, after the first four days or so i was sick in bed for the remainder of the trip, all fraser did was sit patiently at my side, reading a book, waiting for my next croaked request for a cup of tea, a newly warmed hotty, or yet another walk to tesco in search of overlooked cure-alls. it's been our bad luck to find that i seem to be somehow allergic to fraser when taken in large doses. that is, i get the plague anytime we see one another. people will try to blame it on the flight, but you see, i fly all the time, and it never makes me crook. only when i see fraser do i get sick. the good news is, the times that we are together for extended periods of time, i seem to get over being ill after a few weeks, so our extended forecast seems to be positive.

we were lucky enough to be joined in london by the ever-present flatmate (and yes, i like it that way) mike, as well as by my brother jon michael and his wife, chance. (they eloped last summer and didn't even have a proper honeymoon yet! not that traveling to london with your sister and two blokes would qualify in that respect, really, either). so anyhow, we were a good and proper crowd. we all arrived on christmas day, albeit in two seperate airports - three of us at heathrow, and the rogue mike at gatwick. met up at fraser's place later on and he actually made a christmas dinner where marinating meats was involved - very traditional - leg of lamb and a ham. we opened presents and somehow books were the order of the day. we all got london guides and a-to-zeds. i got a very tiny l'espion digital camera which is no bigger than a matchbox. you can see some of the pics i took with it here. not bad. also, the name rhymes with lesbian, which is a bonus.

having all those extra people around, we did lots of things that we don't normally do when it's just us. which is to say, we didn't just lie in bed having sex all day this time (sorry mom). so i guess it was rather good to have company along, as we actually saw some of the sights. monuments, markets, museums, even things that don't begin with an m. i was thwarted once again in my quest for beef wellington - at the wellington, where it is their trademark dish, they were *fresh out of beef wellington* on the night i dined there, and when fras and i returned to a cafe where we enjoyed it once before it had been removed from the menu. no worries.

we did see the charming amelie, also lord of the rings, and harry potter. we went to mdme. tussaud's and while i was posing with wax graham norton i found out the real graham norton was there!
so anyhow, i'm sure there's more but although i am back i am still a bit sick and i am exhausted from all this typing. the rest will have to wait.

Saturday 05-Jan-02