When is a girl not a girl?
I went to the hairdressers this morning. For most females, a treat, for me, a chore. I’d rather go to the dentist. Seriously. I went to the same place I used to go to when I worked in the bay. Mike cut my hair last, but he left years [...]
Language students. They are often the worst behaved groups we get. If anything can inject the cold grip of fear into the stomachs of even those with above average constitution, foreign teenagers can… I’d imagine that most of Europe complain about British teenagers, I’m sure Germans bemoan the Belgians and the Swiss badmouth Italians, but [...]
Nothing much happened today.
No, really.
I’d love to say something pithy, succinct, witty or just downright clever, but I’m afraid I’ve not got much to work with.
Today I wasn’t as distracted by you as yesterday. It meant I could keep on task most of the day. I did allow myself a little wander of the mind [...]
Being ‘in training’ today our beverage provision was more elaborate than usual. Usually I have a jar of coffee and a small container of sugar in a drawer under my desk. Today we are in a different building, and in this building there is A Machine. You take your choice of beverage to The Machine, [...]
My desktop image is a circumzenithal arc. I must have shown you. A beautiful ‘upside down rainbow’ partially framed by a naked Oak. The image was captured almost two years ago to the day. I stood, looking south-west on a crisp, almost cloudless, January day. My eye was first drawn to a parhelion, a sundog, [...]
I love rainbows.
I must have told you at some point. I’ve always liked them, but since researching them for a show I wrote a good number of years ago I have had a serious soft spot for them. What is it said? The possession of knowledge does nothing to diminish the sense of wonder [...]
Don’t you hate it when traffic stops, the tailback grows, and then when it, eventually, starts moving again there’s no apparent reason for the disruption? Worse still, picture the scene, in a narrow, country road, with stone walls on both sides a 4×4 has stopped, hazard lights flashing. A woman saunters back into the car, [...]
A funny five minutes over coffee (maybe everyone overdosed on the caffeine) ended with a colleague singing ‘I’m a Gnu’ by Flanders and Swan. The youngest in the office, bless her, misheard and thought she was singing ‘I’m a canoe’ (which, let’s face it is no weirder). This led to the inevitable ‘What does a [...]
Lunchtime conversations with colleagues, eh? Today, we were mulling religion.
We discussed the difference between having respect for others’ religions and being religious yourself. I spoke about one of my most embarrasing moments (better retold in the flesh, so you can truly see me cringe). We sat and pondered the pros and cons of religion [...]
From my office window I have just watched the Sun set, and behold, sparkly Venus, in much-high-altitude-turbulence twinklicity.
Glorious.