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I write about things. Sometimes. Welcome to my world.

On early morning yoga

At 8:30 on a Sunday morning, I am about to be picked up for my first Yoga Session. Bearing in mind that it’s early, it’s a weekend and I spent the whole of yesterday digging up the garden and planting trees, I think I must actually be completely mad. Wish me luck.

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 🙂 *** 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 not-catching 22

There are a few things I’m really good at. Catching fish isn’t one of them. In fact, it’s one of the things I’m worst at. *** With most of the other things I’m worst at (or just bad at), I’m generally so bad because I don’t practice enough (or ever) or because I don’t much […]

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 dead flies and sherry trifle

I haven’t written lately. You can blame Geoff from TanGental. I don’t really have a lot of time to spare for either reading or writing when I’m at home, so I use my commute for both. The commuting time for the whole of the last week has been taken up with reading Geoff’s book: “Dead […]

On returning to the land of the seeing

I have been home from holiday for three weeks and I haven’t had the decency to keep you updated with how my eyes are. I’m sorry. *** Here’s the news: I am now the proud owner of a pair of glasses (which I will write about soon). 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 I can seeee!!!! *** […]

On bathing twice in one day

I am most definitely not a morning person. DB most definitely is. During the week I have to be dressed, breakfasted and out of the house by 7am (7:10 at the very latest), and DB demands that I eat breakfast with him at least once per weekend which involves being up by just gone 8. […]

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 the first cut

“Snip, snip!” I stood in the bathroom, sharp sewing scissors in hand, nervously cutting the air while I worked up enough courage to make a start. I’d spoken to DB, and he’d tried to talk me out of it, but he’d failed. I can be far more consequent than he is when I want to […]

On winter flowers

I don’t know many plants that flower in winter, in my head none had big poofy blooms. Then I accompanied DB on a work trip, calling in at his workshop en route. I am now better educated. Trees do blossom in January. Especially mostly neglected trees kept in corridors. This particular corridor is only marginally […]