went to a flickrmeet last weekend and that was a ton of fun..flickrmeets are probably a lot like xangameets only with a bunch of cameras..this particular flickrmeet was the annual UK flickrmeet...every year they have it in a different location..this was the 3rd one (the first i've been to) and it was in nottingham, so the nottingham flickrgroup did all the hosting and preperations and i have to say it was a really great day out...i met some really cool people and also got to photograph some stuff in nottingham that i hadn't come across before...we also got pretty much free reign of the council house which was very cool because i've never been in there before! they've got a massive ballroom that was designed based on the hall of mirrors in the palace of versailles.... you can see some of my photos of the council house and other bits of nottingham on my flickr site, of course!

i haven't been very social in the last couple of years, but i'm hoping to be more social this year....it's actually quite fun hanging out with people...

Tuesday is the hubby and my 8th anniversary! it doesn't seem that it's been that long....so tomorrow we are going to go out and celebrate! looking forward to it, as it's not very often that the two of us get to go out on our own...but cera's friend always has her birthday party on the same weekend as our anniversary since her birthday is only a couple of days before it, and cera usually gets to stay over night there, so it works out nicely!
I have no idea what we're going to do...we were hoping to catch a movie, but there never seems to be anything good out at the cinemas this particular week...so who knows! we'll just have to wait and see!

well that's about it for me right now! have a great weekend everyone!

some idiot tried to break into our house last night...or who knows what he was doing.....whether he was trying to break in, look in, or steal the bbq, who knows.....but it was about 8:30 last night and we were sitting in the living room watching Holby Blue (a police drama) and i heard a noise out back, and i said to dan "what was that?" and he said he didn't know and looked out the window and there was a guy in a hoodie out there...dan opened the window and said "oi...what are you playing at?!" and the guy just walked off..jumped over our gate (since we have it locked with a bicycle chain) and continued walking away......i went outside to look and several things that had been up against the back of the house had been moved...the BBQ, a box with some plants on it and some bamboo poles...one of which was now lying leaning on the back window.....so we had to get the police around, but of course even though they already had 2 unmarked cars in the area and a marked car that showed up after we called, they weren't able to find anyone.....we've never really had many problems with intruders all the while we've lived there, but in the last few months, the neighbors on both sides of us have been burgled or at least attempted to be burgled...one of them they broke in by kicking in the bottom panel of the back door and then letting themselves in that way....the other, someone knocked down the fence between our house and theres, and a week before that, they knocked down the fence on the other side of his yard....it's getting a bit rediculous....and we must not be the only ones having trouble with burglars if they had 2 cars (with members of the burglary squad in them) patrolling the area...but i guess they need to patrol it a bit better!

in other news, no luck in the house hunting yet!! just haven't found anything in our budget, sadly.....but at least the landlord hasn't said any more about selling the house yet...so there's still no pressure at the moment....

last week i managed to get a road trip in to the lovely little spa town called buxton in the derbyshire peak district...the weather went back and forth between being lovely, bright and warm to suddenly be snowing like mad! it was a great day out and we did quite a bit of walking around and also visited a really cool cave called Poole's Cavern....well worth the trek! I've been posting some photos of the trip on my flickr account, so feel free to have a look! in the meanwhile, here is a photo of a miniature railway/train that runs through one of the parks! it was quite a fun little ride!