When Will The World Slow Down A Bit
Some days start stupidly, and failing an injection of common sense (which we have very little of around here at the moment), they continue ongathering pace, ...
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Truthful Tuesday
In the spirit of “taking part” rather than continually ploughing my own furrow across the internet, I’m taking part in the “Truthful Tuesday” meme for a chan...
Truthful Tuesday 2
I’m off work for the afternoon, it’s raining outside, and I’m sat here with a cup of tea reading the various “Truthful Tuesday” posts on Tumblr. It struck me...
The One Where Sports Day Got Rained Off
It all started so well. I left work at 1pm, got to the school at about 1:10pm, ready for the kids activities to start at 1:15. Although I missed our eldest c...
An Education
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn9IMe5jmf0&w=640&h=390]We watched “An Education” last nightand for the first time in living memory I found ...
The World Through My Eyes Annoyance And Grumpiness Abounds
While watching breakfast television this morning, a stand up comedian was talking about his routine, and his reputation of being “grumpy”relating every day s...
Sundays Barbecues And Family
Todaythe hottest day of the yearwe chose to visit family in Oxfordshire for a barbecuea thinly veiled excuse for us to get together. Throughout most of my ch...
Movies Slow Days And Frustration With Everything
Do you ever watch an entire day vanish in front of your eyes, and become frustrated because you know it’s the weekend, there’s only one day of it left, you’r...
If Blogs Could Talk
Hello blog. I’ve never addressed you directly before, so thought this might be fun. I haven’t given it a great deal of thought before doing so, so you’ll for...
Thud
Deep in the dark, dank depths of the cupboard at the top of our stairs resides a board game of special significancedelivered by Mr Claus one fine December to...