August

Well July ended with my mostly being sick after my wisdom teeth operation, thanks to the cocktail of painkillers and antibiotics I had to take *grumble* But during that time my left cheek de-swelled and I began to look less and less like Popeye, phew!

And then I started my new job in local government! It's been a very interesting and quite exciting time, and I'm learning a lot. Of course, I get to do a lot of boring jobs, but also there's a lot of fun and challenging stuff.

Other exciting developments were two of my closest girlfriends getting engaged to their respective men in the same weekend! I am very happy for couples, and 2010 is already looking to be rather full of weddings, huzzah!

Speaking of weddings, we popped into the evening reception of another of my old sixth-form friends, on a balmy evening towards the end of the month. Probably the shortest amount of time I've ever spent at a wedding, as whilst I knew the bride, and we'd been good friends at college, we felt a bit lost. The bride looked stunning in her outfit, and it was wonderful to see her again, as it's been a couple of years, and it looked like they had had a fantastic day. But we had rocked up after seeing my youngest brother perform spectacularly as Bagheera in his local youth drama society's open-air production of 'The Jungle Book'. Despite the frequent interference of wasps at the picnic (they were so determined to get drunk on our wine!), it was a jolly good show! So we turned up at this reception looking a bit like we'd just had a tumble in the hay bales of some random stable on the way there - although we were smart(ish) we had been lolling on the grass, sipping wine, while enjoying the show under the afternoon sun, and then we had traipsed through a couple of miles of country lanes to get the wedding reception. Still, that's kind of how late summer days should be. An amateur open-air play, getting lost in our Sunday best down isolated country lanes, and then awkwardly drinking coffee in the corner of a marquee at a wedding where we hardly know anyone, and then disappearing, giggling, into the night, to jaunt back down an unlit road to the parents' house for a cup of tea... *sigh* You can tell we're getting old can't you? Just can't handle our nights out like we could in our youth can we? ;)