Three-Dimensional Technicolour Flake

Ughhhh, I am sooo tired…….
Spent seven (can it be seven??) hours on the phone with various friends last night. My final conversation finished at 03:20. I had no idea of the time, it having flown past, and I was all set to get back into the Joan Hickson Miss Marple I’d been watching when the phone-fest [...]

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English is wonderful

Sitting at dinner with my mother and stepfather in the lovely local country pub along the lanes from their village, last night, and we were taking our ease and talking of inconsequentialities – we haven’t had a chance to relax as a family for some time and DP especially looked calm and happy. Eating my delicious dinner, swilling [...]

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Moo!

I have had precisely NO personal emails on my prime account today. I can’t remember the last time that happened. Am I not loved? Am I in trouble? I always think I’ve done something. I haven’t done anything. I’m not not loved. I’m not in trouble.
Aren’t we quick to assume the worst, though?

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4am is too early…

The Mouse has a new game – up at 4, it’s called, and it’s worn thin after only 2 iterations!!
This morning he wanted a drink of water and so I brought him into bed with me, got him a drinkie and then settled him as best I could. I woke up out of a semi-doze at [...]

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Friends – and those who prove themselves not to be

I’m beginning to realise what a blessing it is to have withdrawn from my old life, and to have elected to redraw the boundaries so much more firmly.
There’s a new clarity to my thought process; before, if someone I cared about said or promised something, I would extemporise; I’d hear what they said and immediately pad [...]

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Blissikins

Lurking – the only word to describe my morning’s activity thus far. My relaxing morning actually began at 8.30pm last night; sitting on the sofa watching Police Interceptors (you’re f***ing nicked, shut it! Right my lad, Nee-Nar Nee-Nar etc, etc) with half of one eye while trying to read The Handbook of Business Security and eat [...]

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Piereth is mostly sleeping this lunchtime

I am going to have a kip.
I’m lucky that my work is set up so I can slot my feet onto the extra chair in my office and close my eyes for half an hour. Friends aren’t so lucky. I have friends for whom the luxury of a phone that actually turns off is a faint [...]

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Three? How’d he get to be THREE??

R, the Piggymouse (the Warty Potato, the Bongle) is three on Sunday and we hail him! As you can see from his new photos, taken just this last weekend, he’s a strapping fella; happy, funny and engaged in life to the full. I love him more than anything else in the world.
Now he’s a person, [...]

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I’ve Discovered the Cure for the Common Cold

ISO 9001:2008 audits and sleep. It’s that simple. 
Right in the middle of my 9001:2000 to 2008 gap analysis I slid off the edge of sleep, exhausted. Two hours solid crash, and I woke up feeling miraculously better. I think when your body needs time to mend it just says, ‘Hey. HEY! Turning off, already!’ and [...]

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My Bed is my Office

Looking at the above statement I realise it could be seriously misconstrued, but I leave it in place – what do we live for, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? I am working from home today, or WfH, depending on whether you have an acronymic addiction, which [...]

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