Another (infrequent) update

I've just noticed it's been more than a month since I last posted anything here, so it's high time I corrected that tendency ...

Things with Thomas continue to go swimmingly: he's away (again!) at the moment, in South America, but returning in early March, at which time this spate of travelling will be over. He was back for a week earlier this month - far too short a time, but boy was it good to see him again. We've got a weekend trip to Manchester planned for mid-March and are looking into possible places to go for my birthday in May.

Good news too on the job front: I'm returning to the Edinburgh International Festival as a senior ticket sales assistant, i.e. a welcome step up the ladder from last year, to say nothing of a further leap in salary. I was interviewed a supervisory position they had going, but despite not getting it (lack of experience, inevitably), I'd still say I'm doing pretty well to have been offered this other post considering I've not even been doing box office work for a year.

After spending the end of last year having decidedly mixed feelings about the new choir I'd joined - Loud and Proud, the local LGBT one - I've started to enjoy it now, though I've no idea what has caused this change of heart. Even if the repertoire (show tunes and the like) is far from what I'd usually go for, it's all good clean fun and I'm going to stick the year out at least. Beyond that is a matter of conjecture; as getting a dog is still very much on the cards and I balk at people who leave their pets tied up outside shops and the like, I'm not going to be leaving mine alone at home for hours on end several times a week.