Posted in Baby Musings, Family, Quality!, Work on December 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m such a good girl; adding layers of gilt to my already sparkling halo…. well, not quite. This is really just an affirmatory exercise to ensure I get the entirety of Christmas off next year. I’ve put my effort in and I will the year after next too. If I’m going to suggest guidelines then [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Home, Work on December 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
and this is no bad thing, despite the fact than any sensible 9 to 5er would have inveigled all the time between Christmas and New Year off.
I’ve had a busy day with a colleague, planning our line of attack for the New Year, and now I’m catching up on my sites and listening to really [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Home, Sleep on December 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
He’s been asleep for 8 minutes, and he’s been awake since 3am, and so have I; so by my calculations the meter reader, the postman or some feckin religious nutbar should come pounding on the door in about 15 minutes or so and wreck his slumber. Like Coleridge when writing Xanadu, I shall watch the serenity [...]
Posted in Christmas, Sleep on December 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Well, I spent Christmas Day in bed!
It sounds romantic, and how I wish it had been… but no. A simple, unpleasant tale of sickness at both ends and a really, really sore stomach! I got up for two-thirds of ‘The African Queen’. because Katherine Hepburn always makes me feel better; but had two bites of [...]
Posted in Christmas, Family on December 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I love the steady trickle of vino that starts just after lunch and continues till bedtime - never enough to be drunk, as we quaff from egg-cups, but still, enough in its own right!
We’ve just been out to collect the turkey, red cut flowers, croissants, black pudding for the stuffing and pears for the Mouse [...]
Posted in Gok on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
What the hell is it about Gok Wan??
Bizarrely, the most searched string on this blog is about his Royal Gokness and whether this paragon is G-A-Y.
For all you folk out there with an insufficiently developed gaydar - YES, OF COURSE HE IS!!!
There, that should clear things up.
ps yes, he also used to be Uber-Fat. Think [...]
Posted in Family, Travel on December 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Referring back to Tempting Fate, a recent post, I found myself in the grip of my usual stress-malaise this morning. We were packing to leave for work, as we’re travelling straight down to dad’s after we pick up R - not going home again. R was clambering all over the assembled bags, hooting with excitement, [...]
Posted in Christmas on December 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Thought I’d change the old summery header - it isn’t snowing here, but I wish it was - Robodad was chipping ice off his driveway in plate-sized chunks yesterday - I wish! I love I love I love snow!
This pic is from last February - no doubt we’ll have to wait till next February till [...]
Posted in Christmas, Friends on December 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
What??! I hear you cry!
The age-old dichotomy of what to buy the wife for Christmas, of course.
I’ve been given his grandfather’s 21st birthday watch, a Jaeger Le Coultre of impeccable lineage and quite terrifying value, and an absolutely authentic black satin fully boned and ribboned basque. It’s so severely elegant and gives me such an [...]
Posted in Christmas, Food, Friends, Home on December 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Two words. NO CARDS.
I bought the cards, and the stamps, then decided no, f**k it, I’m not writing them. This was unbelievably freeing. It felt like the equivalent of flinging off all your clothes and streaking towards the sea on a Caribbean island. If that sounds implausible, try this. The presents are wrapped, and [...]
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