My newly acquired Sylvanian family (see blog post) have been suffering from quite a bit of serious neglect recently, due to the fact that there’s only so much you can do with a house (log cabin) that only has one room and for which you … Continue reading Improving Utopia – Part One
Category: Life
The AGM
(or, the further trials and tribulations of being a person who stammers) People who actually go out to work and contribute to that scary thing known as Society will be familiar with the workplace activity known as the ‘ice breaker’ - unlike those of us … Continue reading The AGM
The Eye Test
Every December I go for a free eye test. It’s free because a family member has Glaucoma. This test would cost your average, glaucoma-history-free Joe £55. Every day the papers, which I go out of my way not to read, but sometimes can’t help glancing … Continue reading The Eye Test
Deck the Halls – 8 days to Go
I got the tree up 5 days ago, which was an unexpectedly calamitous event. The tree is artificial and nearly 25 years old. Every year it sheds more and more non-real leaves. The moulting, fake leaves leave a trail on the stairs and across the … Continue reading Deck the Halls – 8 days to Go
Bring us some Figgy Pudding – 12 days to go
I bake sporadically, which is to say about once every 5 years. Baking is not a hobby I’d take up on a daily or even weekly basis. It’s something to do with the transient nature of it all. You spend all that time measuring stuff … Continue reading Bring us some Figgy Pudding – 12 days to go
My Christmas Countdown – 16 days to go
Well, I’ve read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I’ve watched Michael Caine being nasty Scrooge and nice Scrooge on a Sky Christmas movies’ loop; and sung along with assorted Victorian muppets (including horses, raccoons, and lobsters – who knew Victorian society was so diverse) all seated … Continue reading My Christmas Countdown – 16 days to go
All Together Now……
I joined a community choir about 6 months ago, under slight duress (I do virtually everything under slight duress actually - apart from eating and sleeping.) A couple of ladies from another tiny little choir I’d joined, at around the same time (this time under … Continue reading All Together Now……
Mama, We’re all Crazy Now
Anxiety is reaching epidemic proportions in the Western world. Yes, the affluent West where the drinking water doesn’t kill you, where there’s always too much food on the table, where every house contains a full array of everything digital. In America, the land of opportunity … Continue reading Mama, We’re all Crazy Now
I’m not in with the In Crowd
I joined Facebook a year ago, thinking it was a really good way to stay in touch with family who live miles away – thinking it would be a lovely, cosy ‘place’ to inflict images of the domestic life I lead, upon the various far-away … Continue reading I’m not in with the In Crowd
My Rickshaw Challenge
Children in Need and the Rickshaw challenge are back on our screens, which means I’ve set myself the yearly arduous, personal challenge of watching every leg of the Rickshaw journey, whilst listening to the young participants’ tales of mind-numbingly awful disease and eye-watering acts of … Continue reading My Rickshaw Challenge
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