Love, Loos and Armageddon Out of Here
Happy New Year to all you lovely, lovely people. I hope you all managed to have a brilliant time and got some actual R’n’R in there as well for good measure. Having finished in the office on Dec....
View ArticleIn Which We Make A Decision!
Moving house is acknowledged to be one of the five most stressful experiences in the average human life. Right up there with death, and we all know how that ends. As I write, I am sending hopeful...
View ArticleEbbs-cuse me, Am I Growing Old?
“OK, darling, I’ll pick you up at ten.” So said I in yet another chat message to dearest daughter yesterday afternoon. Closing the jaunty little messaging app on my phone – having made sure to include...
View ArticleMoving On Up….
So it turns out that moving house is about as easy as shoving a pinecone sideways up my own backside without the aid of Vaseline and is just as much fun. The housing market, or at least that in the...
View ArticleReview Blog: The Making of Harry Potter at Warner Bros. Studios
What to do with the Teen/Tween combo during the Easter holidays? How to avoid days of stultifying TV watching, kerb-trawling around the village and general boredom and lethargy? Well, we found the...
View ArticleParenting: Old Navy Stylie
We have a favourite film in our house – well, at least the Man-Hog and I do. It is “The Bounty”, the 1984 version starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins. The Man-Hog admires all the stiff upper lips...
View ArticleAlas Poor Washer, I Knew Him Well…
Alas, I am awash with washing. Piles of the stuff lurking in every nook and cranny of the house. Staring at me reproachfully as I bravely try to ignore and rise above the trauma that is my washing...
View ArticleThe Weight-Loss to Home Improvement Correlation Theory
For the past few weeks I have been doing the Cambridge Weight Loss Plan. This was all sparked by my friend Sue – now forever know as “Non-Starter” for her immediate abandonment of the idea in the...
View ArticleGandhi and the Mental Middle Finger
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi My son is a legend. Seriously. He should get a medal, an award or some sort of formal recognition....
View ArticleSnoring, Boring and Foot Fetishes
So I haven’t written a blog in a while – apologies to any who may have missed my inane ramblings. There is therapy available on the NHS and you should probably take advantage of that. Here’s the...
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