I had decided that as I was going clothes shopping for my nephew’s Christmas present, I would also keep my eyes open for a dress. I am going to have to wear something on New Year’s Eve, and it sounds like a dress would be more appropriate than jeans and t-shirt.
To get me out of [...]
Parents have a slightly odd collective memory. They rarely remember things that occur after you move out of home. Not big things, like where you live or work or stuff. It is the little trivial things. Take coffee for example. I have taken my coffee black since University, a decade ago. When I’m at home, [...]
When throwing things upstairs, ensure the lid is down on the toilet seat.
Some people say that Daft is Stupid, but I think that’s a little harsh. Some people think that Daft is Odd, but Odd isn’t as appealing as Quirky or Eccentric or Daft. Some people prefer Dappy, but that’s just a little bit posh for me. Some people reckon Daft is old fashioned and prefer Crazy [...]
This afternoon, in the office next door, there were two colleagues. One who can cook (I can heartily recommend the lasagne) and the other who can’t (no, genuinely, she can’t). When my saucepan arrived I knew one would appreciate the sentiment, so I popped my head around the door and showed CanCook the pan. Her [...]
One of my favourite posts has been this one. I liked the train of thought running through it.
I had cause to remember it again this morning, when, at six-thirty, the boiler noisily whirred into life, waking me. As this was to be my only lie-in this week, the early morning call was not so [...]
There were a flurry of birthdays in the last week. There were complaints of getting old. Not from me, you understand, but from my 23 year old colleague. I put her firmly in her place, but she was voicing concern at how much life had already been lived without her realising it.
Enter Flossie’s logic: [...]
I’ve been thinking about letters after we talked about it earlier. It does seem slightly odd that our time together, at this distance, hasn’t resulted in a flurry of letters. We both love words and writing, so it’s a little unexpected. Then again we write to each other often. I can’t remember a day going [...]
A petite colleague of mine is going to meet her new bloke’s friends tonight. A number of them are really girly. She was worried that her steel toe-cap boots might not fit in. Heaven only knows why she thought I would empathise.
In discussion, she claimed that she rarely wears dresses because, having a slight figure, [...]
OK, so this one breaks the 20 minutes rule, but it is good, and you can freeze it or keep it in the fridge for many more meals. But more than that, I wanted to try out the format and had an excuse to describe the size of parsnips, and that was good enough for [...]