On social predjudice
“Why are you fun?!! You’re English!! …and I thought English girls couldn’t dance” “uh..” Gotta love Americans 😉
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On swimming in the sun
Once or twice a week I go swimming with a friend. We’ve just started going to the pool near her house instead of the one near mine. Today, for the first time, I discovered it has an outdoor pool attached. It was sunny, and scarily warm, so I went out for the first outdoor swim […]
On bikes, breadbuns and guilty conciences
Once upon a time there was a little girl. She learned to ride a bike (slowly) and when she grew up she still liked cycling. That little girl was me. Now I’m a whole lot older, even if not that much bigger. When I started work, I lived in a house half an hour’s walk […]
On Pidgeons
Today my workshop was invaded by 2 pidgeons. I left for 10-15 minutes to print something in a different room, when I got back, there they were. Apparently they mate for life. I was told that by most of the people who found out about my predicament. Not that it really helped me much. But […]
On the difference between clean and tidy*
– or the mystery box part 2 – I am not a particularly tidy person. I am learning, and I am getting better, but I’m not there yet. However. I can’t deal with dirty. Unless it’s unavoidable and short-term. Cake mix on the worktop, compost on the floor, paint on the table. Whatever. It’s all […]
On Mystery Boxes
I returned to work on Monday and was confronted with a large grey-brown box. Apparently The Colleague got wind of someone throwing it away and decided it would be a good coming-back-to-work present for me. Today, after sitting and looking at it for 2 and a half days, I got The Other Guy to drive […]
On doorkeys
Is it more worrying that I try to use my house key to unlock the workshop, or the workshop key to unlock my front door???
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On thought provoking questions
I’ve been clicking through quotes on Facebook. One that got me was one that simply asked if my 8-year-old-self would be proud of me. Whether she’d be proud of me or not is fairly irrelevant.. What hit me was the fact that I have absolutely no idea what my 8-year-old-self thought about ANYthing… and that […]
On patience
It’s not like I’m never ever patient.. I’m not bad at waiting for busses for instance, or waiting for the stampede to die down when icecream’s being handed out. I’m a glassblower. Patience is part of the job, you can’t want things to happen NOW; either the glass is hot enough (or cold enough, depending […]
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On Jelly
I used to love jelly, still do I guess, even if I don’t eat it often any more. German kids aren’t nearly as keen on it… I have never seen so much jelly thrown away before in my life.
On Microphones
I managed to speak INTO the microphone for practically the ENTIRE duration of [my parts of] this morning’s theatre skit :). GO ME!!
On pancakes
Some say you have to share bread and wine with people if you want them to remember you.. I reckon making them pancakes comes a pretty close second 🙂
On what I learnt at circus school today
Keeping a group of seven 7-12 year old boys together for 2 hours while changing rooms 12 times (circuit training) is a challenge. Keeping your cool even more so 😉 They are amazingly willing to please, as long as you tell them EXACTLY what you want them to do and why… Ok, so they still […]