To the North!!!!

Well, lovelies, we’re off to the ‘burgh and I will be out of commission for a couple or three days.
Mum has already started exclaiming about how much things are going to cost, as if she wasn’t planning to spend a gazillion quid on clothes in Harvey Nicks and Jenners.
She’s offered to pay for tea at [...]

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Piereth the hash slinger

This morning saw me literally crawl out of bed at the third reminder by the Husband. 0620hrs. Dark and cold. At least the heating came on – H had been tinkering with the timer / thermostat to try and even things out around the house. Being so tall and thin, the house has temperature bands [...]

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My Head Hurts

I’ve had a headache for three days now and every now and again it blows up into a migraine and then goes back some.
Chocolate is the culprit, unfortunately. I’ve been breaking my diet in the worst possible way and now I’m paying for it.
Losing the weight was so easy. So easy it didn’t feel like [...]

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Still Addicted

Well now, we’re on Series 4, about halfway through, and The West Wing still does it for me over any other series I’ve seen, and especially over anything that’s on the TV instead. TV is rubbish, just dreadfully awful. There’s no sense in turning it on – you are consistently disappointed by the paucity of [...]

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Audit

… we passed! Flying colours! In and out in 2 hours! Phew!

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Waging War

The lines are now drawn for a showdown with the garden, that raging colossus of plantlife. Dave the Tree is coming over on Saturday to consult the list I’ve left for him and to price the job, then he’s back on the 21st October to chop and drag away about three tons of unwanted herbage. [...]

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Another giant step toward Home & Garden Magazine… not.

R now has new, purpose made curtains in his new room, and next weekend we are refettling the room, assembling his new furniture and moving him up there!
Had the curtains been finished with header tape stops, it would have been better. Picture me rethreading header tape cord with a darning needle and swearing as if [...]

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Another Audit…

… but this time I am serenely confident that we’re going to kick the bastard’s bottom up between his shoulderblades. Metaphorically speaking, of course. We are ready. We are the readiest we could be. We are so ready, that if he was coming to kill us, we’d have killed him before he left home. We’re [...]

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Sleep

This is the motherlode for me, and if I don’t get it it hurts, really hurts.
The pills which were working so well are starting to slip… I’m bolting awake at 3.30 or 4am, and while I seem not to have much trouble drifting off again it seems suspiciously like the thin end of the wedge [...]

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SmugBugger

Well, I can ace youse all cause I’ve bought all my Christmas presents already!!
Pathetic, isn’t it, that such a patently ridiculous thing to do should cause me such a feeling of achievement. It’s a symbol of how Christmas affects me that I should care a hoot. I know people who do all their shopping on [...]

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