Posted in Countryside, Friends, Travel on March 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Drove down to Somerset to see dear friends S & K, at their lovely new house. And to go to a lecture! A perfect day; I left Hereford in a right grump and feeling very unsettled and by the time I got to Somerset I was chilled out, calm and happy.
The acid test for visiting friends [...]
Posted in Family, Home, Money, Sleep on March 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
… but that’s ok, because I dried my first load of washing outside this year yesterday; one more piece of evidence to support my theory that yesterday was the REAL first day of spring.
I’m glad for the rain; I slept better last night than I have in ages, which is always the case when it [...]
Posted in Food, Friends, Niceness, Work on March 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
… flowers have just been delivered! By a bloke who appeared from behind the bouquet to announce that he didn’t sing. Lovely! And a balloon. These from Mr P, who is languishing somewhere on Salisbury Plain (and how very plain it looks) getting soaked by muddy splashback from the enormous army vehicle he’s filming.
And I won [...]
Posted in Friends, Writing on March 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I was clearing away some books that had accreted around the foot of my bed, and returning them to the bookcases in the spare bedroom, I came across an old, flower-covered hardbacked notebook which contains the diary of my time in Australia in 1991 - 92.
Off I went to bed to read it; what a [...]
Posted in Family, Feeling Blue, Food, Home on March 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Ok, maybe a bit strong. But I mindlessly demolished a whole Thorntons Easter egg last night while watching Addams Family Values. This was bad, but the worst thing was that I’d dropped the whole shooting match on the floor prior to eating it so what I was actually eating was floor-soiled shards of Thorntons Easter [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Family, Feeling Blue, Money, Work on March 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Oh, shut it, already, P! Everyone goes through this and Mamatried’s right - there are always savings to be made. You pay for what’s important. This is important!
I think it’s a given that the state isn’t interested in the man in the street - that’s why we need a new team at the helm. All [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Feeling Blue, Home, Rants, Work on March 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I just replied to a post to Jen, who was encouraging me to go for it, baby-wise. In my reply I worked out I spend about £6,000 a year on Mouse’s nursery. I get 5% discount for 2. So, maybe £11,000 a year to have them both cared for to the high standards you’d rightly [...]
Posted in Food, Friends, Presents on March 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I opened a groovy parcel from T yesterday, which was awaiting me on my return from work! A T-rex cookie cutter, a bronto cookie cutter and a heart cookie cutter. Fantastico! I aim to collect a language of cookie cutters so I can make gingerbread heiroglyphs and, literally, eat my words.
In fact, the best piece [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Family, Friends, Home, Money, Sleep, Work on March 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
… when you have a fruit gum in your mouth and your gums ache and itch because you want to chew it so badly?
I wandered round the town yesterday, looking at tiny baby clothes and layettes, and miraculously, all my books about babies and baby names have jumped out of storage and back into the [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Garden, Presents, Work on March 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ohh, what a lovely day we had. And Mouse got some truly amazing gifts. A JCB Jnr toolbench and tools, a minature Dyson hoover, a proper big boys bike and stabilisers, a farm set, playdoh, clothes, books and money. He ate his own weight in cake and rolled around on the floor with the dog. [...]
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