On bad weather and snow buggies
“Bad weather is good for the soul – it gives you something to complain about”
Nablopomo / Blogmas etc
On new telephones
Once upon a time there was one glasblower, one phone and one number. A little while later, a second glassblower arrived. Shortly after his arrival, there was a small argument resulting in a second phone and a second number. Time passed. Last year, I strolled onto the scene and used the first phone without so […]
On posting for the sake of posting
🙂 Goodnight people! Sleep well! 🙂
On Birthdays and Blorthdays
Go and visit Claudette. She’s one of my bestest blog-friends, and it’s her birthday today (HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAUDETTE! :)). Also, my blog is 3 years old. And it was my birthday on Friday. So. Everything points to having a Blorthday Party. I’m not really sure how Blorthday Parties work, so you’ll have to help me […]
On having a bath with a fridge
While we changed the worktops in the kitchen, the fridge was banished to the bathroom, where we danced round it, trying not to get any of the decades worth of dusty grease on our clothes in passing. In the end, DB had a bath while I bathed (= scrubbed) the fridge ;). Both looked and […]
On rolling trees
This is a very small pile of enormous chunks of tree: The pile behind the house is a LOT bigger. We rolled, heaved and wheelbarrowed it all into a huge heap. I was probably not as much help as I could have been, because I stopped to look at the ivy, And the rings, and […]
On illogical guilt
Can someone please explain why my brain feels the need to produce guilty-conscience-feelings for vacuuming so noisily during 5 minutes of DB’s TV programme (which he was dozing through anyway), whereas his is perfectly content to relax so lazily through my cleaning??? It’s not as if I mind him lying on the sofa, watching TV […]
On making mincemeat of it – part 1
Every year, I make a load of mincemeat, for myself, my family, and anyone else who wants some. Every year, I make it up as I go along, and no one’s complained yet. This is part 1 of the recipe – insofar as it can be called a recipe – for 2015. *** A word […]
On listening to multiple voices
DB’s parents both tend to talk (to me, and anyone else who’ll listen) at the same time. As a result, I often don’t understand either of them (or at least can’t follow either topic properly). Three simultaneous conversations between the four of us are no rarity. I suppose I should offer a fourth, but I […]
On buying problems in a wine bottle
I lugged my suitcase up the steps and onto the train and breathed out – unaware that I’d even been holding my breath.. Looking around, it became apparent that I’d landed in the first class carriage. I would have to wrangle my suitcase and an unwieldy bag of picture frames* through the restaurant car and […]
On not being rockstar material
Argh. Written but somehow not sent last night… *** It’s Sunday. I have been ‘on the road’ since Thursday. That’s 4 days. 4 days isn’t exactly a long time. Not really, in the big scheme of things. But. Thursday certainly seems like a long time ago. I am knackered. I even fell asleep on the […]
On [not] helping
I spent a lot of yesterday getting on and off trains. I love the freedom of county tickets and days off – the freedom to do exactly what I want, where I want to do it. 🙂 Each time I realised the current plan wasn’t going to work, I changed it, checking the timetables in […]
On falling asleep mid-post
Anyone would think that with all this train travel, I’d be able to get something written before crashing out… …apparently not. The meeting went on til gone midnight, and once I’d walked back to the hotel I was too knackered to hold my phone for long enough to finish writing and press send. No sticking […]