Happiness is…

A dead flower, a broken bone and freezing my tits off in a garden. Really. Also talking to myself in a slightly creepy daydream conversation sort of way which in a few days I’m reasonably certain my brain will have translated into an actual conversation with other people. Theres a reason I have no job, … Read More


 

Swamp Day

So… today was the day that pretty much everyone was back at work. This time last year I was preparing a classroom for the job that I thought would last a couple of terms. I had a plan for today, two in fact, one if the plumber turned up and one if he didn’t. I … Read More


 

Music Meme

Put your MP3 player on random. Write down the first line of the first twenty songs to come up (no skipping the embarrassing titles). (I’ve taken second lines where the first line contained the title of the song.) See how many they guess… 1) Everyone dated the demise of our neighbourhood from the suicides of … Read More


 

New Year

Pretty quiet and utterly fabulous all told. The Princess and the Honorary Bitch left New Years Eve afternoon after a pleasant lunch at the Stork with my Gentleman Friend (the loo was still blocked and no sign of the promised plumber). Then Mother-In-Law came over to dye my hair…purple. FJ popped over as I was … Read More


 

New Year

Yeah, this next year is going to be good. I’m taking control. I want a year that is calm and is building on all the good stuff from this year. I want a year that I can look back on and say yeah, we did good. I’d like for there not to be so much … Read More