It’s already over a week since we moved! It feels like a month. We have quickly settled into a happy routine of Breakfasting Outdoors; the porch is perfect for this, with enough room for a table and maybe four or five chairs…

… and a great view of the mountains – they were really clear on [...]

We tore ourselves away from unpacking yesterday, to go and source some shelving – in order to have somewhere to unpack stuff onto. Ikea seemed like a good place to look.
I’ve never been to an Ikea in the UK, let alone here, so it was guaranteed to be an … experience. The sheer quantities of [...]

Today we moved house. It’s been an awfully long day!
Started at 8am with a truck…

.. and coffee, kindly brought by our neighbours Lindsay and Mark – ready to help!

The flat is full of boxes ready to go.

It was a mess.

Ken and Celeste and their two kids appeared by 8:30, all fired up and keen to [...]

On Wednesday night Jamie and I had a well-deserved Night Out, to go and see a band called Biffy Clyro play at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. They’re a Scottish band, of punk-indie persuasion (if one can pigeon-hole them at all); my friend Andy introduced me to them, and he and I used to listen [...]