On playing Chinese whispers

Some families play scrabble. Some families are less interested in written words and so choose to play Chinese whispers instead. *** DB came home from work really upset the other day. Apparently his father had told him that his (DB’s) mother had said his uncle (C) was in hospital and that his aunt (H) didn’t […]

On choosing

Some people know exactly what they want, what they like. When they have to choose something, anything, they make their choices based on pre-decided ideas.

I am not that person (and this post isn’t really about icecream).

On catfish and other sites

DB says we can’t have a cat. He didn’t say anything about catfish. I now have 18 – and counting ๐Ÿ™‚ *** On the grounds that I am liable to become boring for most readers who don’t like fish, I’m going to put future posts about fish onto their own site. Here are some pictures […]

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On sight-snoring

I am on the road again. Or more rather on the tracks. Since I’m travelling almost entirely by train. Whatever. It’s a 7 1/2 hour journey from where I live to where I have to be at 7pm. Instead of leaving at midday and making a usual late appearance, I chose an early train so […]

On trying, and failing, to count to 20

“I think that’s 12” he said, from the top step of a wobbly stepladder. “Although they won’t stay still long enough for me to count them properly. I haven’t counted the rest, but there’s no way there’s another 20 in there”. “That’s ok, we’ll take them all, even if there aren’t going to be as […]

On running out of medicine

(From 13th January) This morning I used the last of one of the three remaining eye drops. Oops. (A second bottle wasn’t actually empty, but didn’t gloop much when shaken. It’s difficult to tell how many days worth of drops are left in an opaque 5ml bottle. Double oops.) I’m in a very small seaside […]

On working with men (and trying to understand them)

Iย need some help with a problem that’s going round and round in my head. I’d be grateful for insights…. *** Over the last few days I spent several hours working with a retired electrician who’s a friend of DB’s. We planned, installed and wired up the new lighting in DB’s aquarium. We went shopping for […]

On banknotes and other liabilities

By “other liabilities” I mostly just mean myself. I just went into a shop to buy a lens cover for DB’s camera. Easy right? Wrong. Despite seeing better every day, it appears that I still can’t see well enough to be let loose in society. The cover was supposed to cost 15โ‚ฌ which felt like […]

On beach parties

Originally, we wanted to spend the day on the beach. We packed a picnic and a bottle of water, swimwear and a couple of towels, and off we went. We got there just after high tide, and the dryest sand was damp. Damp sand never stopped us before so we sat down and ‘set up […]

On getting the all-clear :)

First find your optician… They are liable to be situated in a second floor office, above a restaurant. There might be a sign in the window, but it won’t be visible from the pavement, unless you walk along the other side of the road. The staircase will have no mention of the optician’s existence, but […]

On royal knackeredness

Happy Three Kings day! ๐Ÿ™‚ It doesn’t say where they came from, but it was probably a long way, and I bet they were knackered when they finally reached Bethlehem. Unlike me, who is knackered without excuse. DB and I spent the day driving round the island, stopping whenever it looked interesting. Hardly physically strenuous. […]

On scrambled eggs and ice cream for breakfast

I woke up with a sore throat and a blocked nose this morning. The most logical thing to do (in my mind) was eat ice cream for breakfast… …so I did. DB doesn’t approve, but he doesn’t have to eat any, so it’s not his problem. Besides, I’m English, and it seems we ‘always’ eat […]