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Scaredy Cat
So – yesterday heralded the annual geting together of the Scott adult children to celebrate Mum's impending 81st birthday on Tuesday. Moi, big sister/pig blister and the bearded God-bothering brother all round at my house plus various other halves and former neighbour, for a cracking Hawksey-produced rib of beef. Mmmm delish. However – late arrival…
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Wedding Funk
No, no, don't worry – its definitely still on, oh yes – I just seem to be in a slight spot of 'wedding funk' – the equivalent of matrimonial snow blindness I think. Has been utterly brilliant that everyone is delighted at our news, but the scary corollary seems to be me looking like a rabbit…
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The Future Mrs Hawkes!!!!!
Well blow me – the boy has managed to take me by surprise and pop the big question when I was least expecting it. Which is no mean feat considering we were going to Mauritius, clearly a hot option for a spot of romanticality, plus I am a suspicious old bat of monumental proportions, so…
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Off to Mauritius
Yes, that's a title to irritate the pants off anyone stuck in the great British drizzle and howling October gales. And something I've waited donkeys years to be able to say! Mauritius is up there with the Maldives and Seychelles and all those 'only worth going with a bloke / on honeymoon / when you…
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Fat Knacker
So then, have just trogged up the road to the local Virgin Active gym-nasty thingummymajig, and it's looking like I am going to have to get off my ever-expanding ass and actually – eeeeek – join it. Amazingly, they actually do a rolling membership thingy, so you can cough for a month at a time,…
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2 years – and very much counting
Well, every time another year at Added Value rolls by – my anniversary of joining 16th September, now 14 (long) years… so does the anniversary of my diagnosis. 12th September 2008. Even the 'diagnosis' word is distasteful, I hate saying it, writing it although – you may have noticed – I still find it even harder to…
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Home Sweet Home
MADE IT!!!!!! Back in my own home, being pawed by a very attentive Mojo and largely ignored by Conker, playing it cool now she's scoffed her morning bowl of nuggies. And not even a pile of cat sick of a dead pigeon to contend with – bonus! All my best intentions of starting the 2-weeks-to-holiday…
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Comin’ or bleedin’ goin’?
Where am I? No, not the start of a 'here's ten clues and you have to guess' contest (although that could be mildly entertaining) but more the thought in my head when I woke up in yet another strange room in the murky depths of last night and had no idea where I – or the…
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Sleepless in .. New Yoik, this time
Which silly bugger invented the time difference?! And why does it work so damn well? I asked myself as I woke up at 2.30am in the oh so delectable Renaissance Westchester Hotel in the middle of Nowheresville USA this morning, well in the middle of the bloody night, obviously. Only in the US though, can…
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Technotastic
Ha, ha, ha – just had to share with you the last three weeks of 'what the hell is that weird beeping noise in the kitchen?' Some bloody annoying noise, going off every 5 minutes, three different tones, 'beep boop dah!' to mock us even more that we had no idea where the hell it…