A man walks in, he is very large. He has such a beer belly it wouldn’t seem innappropriate to ask him when he’s due. He is wearing a short sleeved rugby shirt of Irish denomination, showing myriad tattoos over both forearms. His hair is short and spiky, streaked red with hair dye. A thick gold [...]
CanCook likes it. She has impeccable taste and claims she can struggle for hours to get curls like these.
On the other hand she may be being polite. She is a nice girl, after all.
Do not re-open a bloody thumb wound whilst folding freshly laundered, cream bedlinen.
It has been over a year since I last called the hairdressers. I thought it a good omen that they could fit me in at eleven with Amy.
They still insist on washing my hair and doing that funny little massage thing that makes my blood run cold, but I found a way of distracting myself: [...]
You know that prank of looking up at a tall building until a group of people stop to see what’s going on. The group grows until you can walk off and they are still there trying to work out what you were looking at. Well, I’ve just had the conversational equivalent.
I was waiting at the [...]
I have always had a pretty healthy interest in nature. I can remember geeking out about fish in the river and lichens and mosses at a pretty young age. It is what led me into biology in the first place. One thing I never really understood ‘though, was people’s fascination with birds.
Some friends of mine [...]
Following my exposure to Six-Part Knuckle Couplers and a Bunded Fuel Bowser whilst on holiday I have a new thread: Phrases that delight and amuse me, yet I have no idea what they mean.
…staring out of the window, thinking of you.
I am talking to a couple about recycling plastics. They are amazed by how little goes into their bins now that they recycle most of their waste. I ask them whether they compost their kitchen waste. I already know their answer as they were looking questioningly at our compost display earlier, but sometimes people need [...]
On my way to work I pass a lovely little cottage. It is nestled alongside a lane on a bank that gets the morning sun. Unfortunately the lane has become much busier since the cottage was built and now it gets more traffic than would be comfortable so nearby.
Recently there has been a fire. The [...]