There are some days when I go shopping on the way home from work and come back with a bag full of ingredients and a head full of ideas for dinner. Days when I look forward to peeling and chopping and frying and mixing. And then there are days like today. A day where I […]
Owen, from no talent for certainty wrote about me having a bath! 😉
I recently gave away the first piece of furniture I ever properly owned. A lady came early in the morning to pick it up for her cats… *** I bought the papasan chair at a carboot sale in autumn 2006. The town held a car boot sale once a year and pretty much everyone who […]
Mostly written last night. This morning it was warm and sunny and I cycled to work in a T-shirt and skirt. Yesterday and most of last week that was no problem. Today however… When I looked out of the window at 5 this evening it was raining. The weather forecast I should ideally have looked […]
Mid April A couple of weeks ago, I took some friends on an exploratory trip around my part of the world. F pointed out an advert for “cinema night” on the notice board of one of my local churches. They were going to show a children’s film, followed by a film called “More than honey”. […]
I fell asleep on the train, only to wake up when an unknown passenger walked past, saw me sleeping and knocked on the window to let me know that we’d arrived at the end of the line. Luckily that was the stop I’d been aiming for. Thank you, kind stranger, I would have hated waking […]
I think I’m going to have a writing weekend. I need to get lots of scraps of memories and thoughts and experiences and feelings out of my head and that generally works best when I write. I don’t have much time to write tho, or at least haven’t been making proper use of the time […]
Most people (I think, probably) arrive on time because they plan to. They have a fairly realistic idea of how long it takes to get somewhere and what they have to do on each side of the journey and they plan accordingly, leaving a buffer for emergencies or unexpected events. I, on the other hand, […]
It seems as soon as I enter a lecture theatre I fall asleep.. At the very latest when they turn on the beamer and start talking. It’s not quite full on sleeping, just dozing off and waking up a few seconds later when my head jolts back up, but it’s frustrating to be completely incapable […]
As I was getting ready to cycle home in the rain I noticed something a little bit scary… This is my coat, backpack and rain skirt… and it’s all pink! I also have a purple and white helmet and pink and grey trainers. I suddenly felt more girly than I have in decades.. (I let […]
Sometimes, when you’re small and still busy growing up, people tell you not to do certain things because otherwise Bad Things will happen. Sometimes, many years later, you do those things anyway, and realise that the world doesn’t actually spontaneously combust, or stop turning or fall on your head. It’s quite a let down in […]
K: how do you want me to chop these onions? KC: I don’t care. I don’t know how to chop onions in multiple ways. I think just stab them to death.. K: so little squares are ok? KC: yes. Love it 🙂
I currently have a friend over for a long weekend and I am becoming more and more aware that I am not cut out for a long-term female partnership.. How do I know? I have no patience for conversations about frilly knickers, nail varnish, the best way to burn candles or which bread has the […]
I had a very interesting conversation the other day where one topic flowed into the next until we arrived at the following question(s): Do I have to like one colour more than other colours? Why does it matter what colour something is? Does the colour make any difference in the way things work? It was […]
We did it! 🙂 A couple of hours of chaos and a large pot of leek& potato soup later and the kitchen is now close to perfectly accurately straight, level, aligned… You name it, it probably is it. It is quite an experience to watch someone take your rental kitchen to pieces… and then put […]