Posted in Daaaance! on January 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ohmygod, am I hooked on salsa or what.
Last night I got grabbed at social dance time by one of the seniors who seems to have hips that are articulated backwards - he’s so fluid in his movements you’d think he was missing a few bones. Anyhow, he spun me about mercilessly and fired questions at [...]
Posted in Food, Friends, Happiness, Niceness, Travel on January 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
What a fantastic weekend. All my favourite things – Japanese food (oh, those edamame beans!) shopping, bargains, sunshine, cooking, chocolate, gossip, in-jokes, laughter, croissants and Johnny Depp movies. T is really the only friend I’ve got that will suggest a cuppa tea and a book as something to do. Yet another reason why I love [...]
Posted in Work on January 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Oh, the post-modern angst of waiting on the telephone…. I’m on with Continental and at least Celia is ultra-polite, helpful and intelligent. It makes a chore almost a pleasure to be treated so deferentially. Of couse, this is a US company. I know how short the shrift would be if I was on with a [...]
Posted in Daaaance! on January 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Ok, Salsa is the way ahead!
The thing I went to last night was such a good laugh, there were 30 people grooving away, some more relaxed around the hips than others, but all having a great time. And as exercise, it takes some beating. There are aches in muscles I’d forgotten I owned this morning.
Monday [...]
Posted in Feeling Blue, Sleep on January 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s not that R keeps me awake, but that I can’t stay asleep.
Over the last few nights my dreams have consisted of decapitations, car crashes, broken necks and serial killers. Once I’ve woken up from these, I can’t sleep again. I lie there, thinking over my day, not scared exactly but dryly resigned to the [...]
Posted in Friends, Niceness, Travel on January 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This is why I like January.
People you haven’t heard from in ages get in touch and you can make a plan to meet, because you have a year’s worth of free diary space and months to save up!!
Today, we aim to book a Stay on a Farm - a top-notch b & b experience, in Oxfordshire, [...]
Posted in Food, Friends, Happiness, Home on January 12, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Another lovely weekend in prospect, and I’m even going to try and do some homestyle things in amongst all the meals out and visits we have planned!
Now Christmas is over I am looking forward to welcoming some of our friends from far away to stay. I love having guests, it’s such good fun and is really [...]
Posted in Daaaance! on January 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Next thursday to the Rowing Club for a three-hour salsa extravaganza and buffet courtesy of the local police - don’t ask, contacts on the force!!
I have a sneaking suspicion I will end up dancing with a woman but those who know me might not think this is such a detriment. The last thing I want when [...]
Posted in Lurking, Work on January 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The boys have taken over my office for a meeting and I am cast away into the outer darkness. I have gossiped with the builder, chatted animatedly with my colleague, drunk a number of cups of tea and have now run out of things I can usefully do, not that any of the above were [...]
Posted in Baby Musings on January 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
On a hunch I checked on R last night as we went to bed - he’d been coughing a bit. I went in and he was coated in vomit, stem to stern, in his eyes, even. Shivering and freezing cold, barely awake. I said the code word ‘VOMIT!’ into the baby monitor - cue husband [...]
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