Below are the most recent 4 friends' journal entries.

Monday, December 28th, 2009
puzzlement	12:30p	Hermit's cave For my loyal and devoted readers: I need to turn off the firehose so I'm taking something of a 'net vacation for a while, including but quite possibly not limited to Identica/Twitter/Facebook, mailing lists and blog comments. Phone and direct email will reach me (before I go into labour at least, which is likely not any day now). Originally posted at http://puzzling.org/logs/thoughts/2009/December/28/hermit (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
manda_babylon	2:46a	Christmas Eve Already... ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (Comment on this)
Monday, December 21st, 2009
liedra	12:06a	A very Belgian winter It’s cold! Very cold! But it’s snowing and snow is pretty :) I have lots of photos. Here are a few! Ice Sculpture, Christmas Markets Ice sculptures in the Namur Christmas markets. Pretty! Namur Citadel Winter 2009 The citadelle after a night’s snow. More Christmas markets and an outdoor ice skating rink! IMG_1337 First snowfall! IMG_1342 Holly outside my window — it’s definitely Christmas! IMG_1345 Sunset after today’s snow IMG_1348 Someone went to a lot of trouble to make some very large snowmen! IMG_1350 The ducks and geese are appreciating the most of the water they have left (it’s been down to -13degC!) IMG_1352 My first and rather poor attempt at a snowman – a snow bunny for ixchelbunny! Some other intriguing things have arrived in Namur: A milk vending machine! The lack of fresh milk has been a source of annoyance for me, so this arrival of a vending machine not only helps the farmers who have been having a tough time of it recently but also provides me with fresh milk for much cheaper than my previous source! :) Yay! Milk Vending Machine Milk Vending Machine sign Nicholas came to visit me at the beginning of the month and we pottered up to Amsterdam, home of canals, art, deep fried batter balls, fantastic Ethiopian food, and rain. I put up some photos here. We had a wonderful time and it was really awesome to see him. I’m hoping he’ll be back in Europe next year! This week I am off to the UK for Christmas, staying with Yvan, Kat, and Yvan’s sister Yaël for Christmas itself, then off to visit Chris for the break between Christmas and New Year! I’m very much looking forward to it :) Missing everyone at home for Christmas, and the nice warm temperatures — but I must admit it’s fun to have some snow! Heh. Let’s just hope I can get on the train though — Eurostar has cancelled 3 days of travel because of the bad cold conditions… so I hope that by Wednesday it will clear up! Even then there could be issues with the backlog of passengers from this weekend! Anyway, hope you all have a happy and safe new year! Looking forward to seeing what the new year will bring! Mirrored from liedra dot net. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 18th, 2009
meerclar_heidi	10:02p	So...on Tuesday I had a baby boy; Nicholas Demetrios Demetriou. Tomorrow Tony and I are going to take him home from the hospital for the first time. Current Mood: Excited and Scared Current Music: Blame it on the Weatherman - B*Witched (Tony chose the song) (Comment on this)