On coming home to empty shelves

To some that would be a problem, to me it was a reason to rejoice; I have too much stuff. Or not enough cupboards, depending on how you view these things. I am currently trying to revise for several exams (December) and compile a bookload of photos and old emails for my grandparents for Christmas […]

On winning the long way round

I had an idea at the beginning of November. People thought it was good but the people in charge thought we should put it on the back burner for later. For a couple of days it was prodded and stirred. Then it was put aside, to rest and wait for better weather. At some point […]

On breaking the spoon

It’s nearly my birthday, which means it’s mincemeat making month 🙂 Originally I planned to spend Sunday afternoon chopping apples and peeling lemons and squeezing oranges in a yearly tradition of stickiness. Then a phone conversation happened and I ran out of afternoon before I ran out of things to say. When I got home […]

On the night of the full moon

The filtered water flows back into the aquarium through a tube ending in the bottom right hand corner of the photo. The duck weed span round slowly and steadily, in an almost perfect circle, until I sprinkled the flakes onto it, and broke it.

On writing it out

– or “don’t write back in anger” (Written yesterday; I fell asleep in the middle if the last sentence..) Yesterday (Monday) I was mad at a situation involving several people and several opinions. Today (Tuesday), I wrote them all an email. It took me a good part of the morning to get it into something […]

On the news

“The news” (as a whole) keeps telling me that scary things are happening in the world at the moment. I’m not too keen on scary things so I plucked up lots of courage as I walked past the newspaper salesman and risked a passing glance at the headlines on my way to the station. According […]