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Mum’s first week
Bloody hell – we are KNACKERED! 10 days of getting off the floor mattress, getting mum up, washed & dressed, tablets done, downstairs, breakfast & tea, then throwing clothes on ourselves – and doing it all again in reverse order at night – is no mean feat. Really pleased and relieved that Mum is now…
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Man alive…
.. that was a crazy weekend! The lovely spectre of a day off treaty Friday afternoon in Selfridges with my £50 gift card and 20% off Amex voucher, brousing black cardigans that can help hide the whale silhouette of a greedy woman, went up in a puff of unexpected smoke at 8am that morning. Phone rang as…
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A Week of Eats
Oh dear oh dear – this whole 'no kitchen' thing really isn't good for the waistline, although its excellent on the getting out in the week socialising front! Over the last week there's been: Supper at Vicki's – ah the famous prawn risotto – with the hockey girls to wish Soph good luck as she…
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Top musical tip
Went to see this on Friday Absolutely, amazingly good. Best musical staging that I've ever seen (and as you know, I've seen more than a few!) Kids singing was the quality of mini adults. Characterisation excellent. Lyrics top banana (written by Tim Minchin the stand-up comic, more geared at adults than spog nasties). Impact on…
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Into week 12 of kitchen extension…
So, 12 weeks and the place still looks like a flipping sh+thole. The bits of progress are that we finally have 2 velux windows in the extension, the sliding doors are in (and are quite cool, got some natty internal blinds that you can roll up and down) and as of an hour ago we…
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All a bit pickledy
Sorry for distinct lack of posts of late - it's all been a bit super manic. Since Mum got stuck in the tub a few weeks ago, she's got worse and worse. I hadn't really put two and two together that: Getting Stuck in Bath = Loss of Confidence = No desire to Leave the Flat…
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Cornwall
Aaahhh…. just had a fab weekend away with Hawksey in Cornwall. Stayed at the Llawnroc Hotel (prize for those who can work out why it might be called that) in a miniscule hamlet without even a pub to its name. Hence necessitating us trogging off to the impossibly named Mevaggisey (Megavissey?) each night to bait…
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Antsy
So, if I had any powerpoint-meets-quant skills, this blog post would be beautifully represented in a multi-coloured, perfect Pie chart. Although, if it was, it might then be in danger of being eaten by me, like everything else in this world, so perhaps all the better that I'm going to have to do it in…
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Cat cards
Ah Liz T - if you're reading this, you'll know exactly where I'm coming from. There comes a time – approximately now – when you wonder if you talk about your cat a bit too much You know, like you're turning into some mad old cat lady who's going to be eaten by her hungry feline friends…
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Birthday weekend tra la la
Well, there's a surprise – one very lovely full on birthday weekend later, and here I am about to go to the docs with the inevitable cold-turned-into-a-chest-infection-from-caning-it-excessively. Still – it was well worth it! Started off with a dinner-come-late-night-lock-in at the slightly unusal venue of Me Love Sushi in Imperial Wharf, part of Jules' Asian…