Thank you again!

[anteros_lmc]

I'm back! Actually I got back from holiday on Monday night but it's been non stop ever since. Work is still crazy busy and we've just had builders arrive to start work on an extension and remodelling the ground floor of our house, so everything is just a wee bit chaotic :} There's also the small matter of the Commonwealth games going on in Glasgow right now which is a rather enjoyable added distraction. (We have a group from Mount Kenya University camped out in the park beside where we live). Also the in-laws are staying this weekend. A quiet life would be boring, right?!

Aaaanyway...we had a great holiday at home the Hebrides and it was a joy to come back to Glasgow to find a veritable pile of cards and parcels. So thank you donnaimmaculata for the postcard (love the phallic monument), joyful_molly for the birthday wishes, and nodbear, mylodon, kittycallum and esteven for the fab gifts which included a very nautical mug (from Germany), some lovely tea (from Canada) and a copy of The Mariners Mirror (from the UK). Perfect! Either you guys planned this, or you all know me too well :D Thank you all so much!



Hope you guys are all well and I'll look forward to catching up with everyone's posts over the next couple of weeks.

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Yay. So glad you are back.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

So am I :)

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Huzzay all round!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Huzzay! Huzzay! Huzzay! And hugs and thank yous once again :)

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Oh, did I sent you the phallic monument? I quite forgot. I'm glad you enjoyed it. (Seriously, there are, like, five different cards in the shop and it's been the same ones for years. I must have sent the phallic monument to dozens of people by now. The phallic monument gets around.)

Glad to have you back!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I did indeed enjoy the phallic monument! And I'm very glad to hear it gets around. It's a very splendid phallic monument indeed and deserves to be appreciated :)

[esteven]

You deserve it all :)

Btw, the mug was only sent from Germany, it was bought at Amsterdam's version of the NMM Greenwich

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Awww thank you hun! That museum looks fantastic! If I ever go back to Amsterdam, I really must try to visit.

Btw I will be in Berlin in September, but at the moment I don't know how long I'll be there. It might just be a day, but I'm hoping I can stay for longer. I'll keep you posted.

[esteven]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Pray do. I can meet you there or if you have a free day you can come to my place.
*tiggers excitedly*

The museum is great, esp their paintings. After all, the Dutch were the marine painters of the world in the 17th/18th century. And Amsterdam is worth a visit anyway.

[latin-cat.livejournal.com]

*comes up for air from under Dissertation work* A very belated Happy Birthday to you! Nice to hear you had a good holiday, and I hope the builders won't be giving you too much grief.

Also... just a thought, but is there a possibility there would be anything navy-wise connected with Waterloo/end of Napoleonic Wars/future of the navy you might want to give a paper on at a conference in Bath next year? Because it's been suggested to me that I very well be organising such a conference for my uni next year. *hopefuls*

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

*comes up for air from under Dissertation work*
Good luck getting it finished! What stage are you at now?

I hope the builders won't be giving you too much grief.
So do I! They've only just started so it's too early to tell :}

Will PM you re the conference.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Very Belated Birthday Greetings to you!