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Puzzler

So duko. For weeks I have been rolling my eyes and muttering at colleagues who have been entranced by this phenomenon. I will now have to start mocking myself for wandering around in a trance figuring out what numbers…

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Kodak moment

Sweet baby Jesus, will you look at the hair on me! This is a family holiday in 1984 – I’m 15 years old, and don’t I look like I’m ready to murder my family in their beds! In my…

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Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside

I live in Southampton – it’s more of an industrial port than a seaside town these days, but definately ‘coastal’. Whilst public access to the waterfront is being whittled away by property developers erecting swanky apartment blocks, we are…

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Reasons to be cheerful (part 1)

It’s a bank holiday (yay, no work, and I don’t even work in a bank)! It’s payday. The sun is shining. Let’s go crazy Broadway style!!!…

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Three things

Three things that happened in my past that may account for being a bit odd now I’m approaching maturity (I’ll be 36 next month – yikes) Pretended Tic-Tacs were pills and acted out a melodramatic death by eating the…

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Movies for the hard of thinking

As I had a bit of ‘me’ time for a change, I thought I’d catch up with some of the girlie films I’d saved on Sky+. I watched… Down With Love. Terrible. Ewan, Renee, what were you thinking!? Legally…

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Gardening tips for girls

If you wear your old flared leg jeans that are a bit too big, you WILL at some point trip over them into a pile of compost and grass clippings. Only Chanel ‘Rouge Noir’ nail varnish will REALLY hide…

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Polling the electorate (wahey)!

Tomorrow is the day that, finally, we here in the UK get to exercise our prerogative and vote. To be honest I can’t wait! Maybe we’ll be able to find out what else has been happening in the world…

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Skiver McGyver

I’ve told Mark to carry on digging whilst I nip on the internet to look up whether we are digging up weeds or plants… but actually I am completely knackered and am hoping he wont notice I’ve disapperared for…

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Want!!!

I live in a gadget obsessed household. If there’s a gadget available that can do the job at least half as well as a human then we have to have it. I can send an email from the bath,…