I fear that I may have been over active on the media of Twitter and Facebook, especially on Thursday. I’m afraid this is what happens when you trap me in a steel tube for four hours with only the internet for amusement. Due to these over frequent updates, you will no doubt have gathered that [...]
I have to confess to not really being in the mood for my usual jovial glance back at the week just gone. We’ve had a tough one, starting literally with the week, when Louise’s Mum called us early on Monday morning to say “she wasn’t feeling very well”. I’m not going to go into loads [...]
It’s been a right old week. As much as it is nice (and welcome) to be popular, this multiple job thing is a toughie. So I’m working really hard at trying to look busy at the old place, smiling at all the right things, feigning the appropriate level of concern at others, and above all [...]
They say that the most stressful things in life are divorce, changing jobs and moving house. Never ones to do things by half, it would appear we’re attempting two of those three at the same time. I shall leave you to guess which two. Depending on how these two go, we may end up with [...]
As I settle down to write this week’s blog, you may be intrigued to learn that I’m very stiff. Before your minds run away with you, and my female readers implode in a frenzy of mental images and hot sweats, this is because this weekend I have done my first bit of exercise for many [...]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for my blog. Silly numbers, and I thank everyone who bothered to come and read this stuff. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 44,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert [...]
I appear to have blinked and missed Christmas. I know I am of an age now, but wow, it flashed by in a blur of calories and crap telly. All of a sudden it is Wednesday, my holiday is half over (or only half gone depending on your outlook on life I suppose) and I [...]
Another week filled with medical news and hospital updates for us. After another four days sat waiting for further scannage, my Mum is finally home. Hopefully now, she can enjoy a pain-free, non A&E Christmas!! Let’s hope I need blog of hospitals, doctors or the like for quite some time now. You haven’t had an [...]
Being of an OCD nature, with more than a hint of Virgo, I apparently seek perfection in all things, and I am not comfortable with things being incomplete or broken. I plead guilty to most of that to be honest. So, already feeling that the Gods are toying with me at present, seeing what new [...]
Alas the lottery balls have denied me the joy of telling work to place their job anywhere north of the sphincter. The hope I invest in this each week is beyond sad, and until the balls drop on a Saturday evening, in my mind it is a valid route out of a Monday morning. As [...]
Hello again. I am back. Apologies for my absence over the past week….what do you mean you hadn’t noticed??? In the great scheme of things, me missing a blog one week isn’t even a pimple on the arse end of the universe, but I just couldn’t bring myself to put fingers to keys last Sunday. [...]
How’s your Sunday been? I have spent mine taking photos of doors. No, worse than that, I have spent mine watching someone take photos of doors!! I’ve been driving Emily around trying to find her interesting doors to take photos off. This isn’t some sort of Jim Morrison pilgrimage, no, it is for her Photography [...]
So as I come to fill another blank post with nonsense, I am on the couch, with Emily sat three feet from the TV, watching Peter Pan for the gabillionth time. Her crush on the actor playing Peter is beyond measure. The fact that he’s now 37, bald, and sixteen stone is something that I [...]
I worry myself sometimes. The state of my mental health is a cause for concern. It is a source of eternal puzzlement where the random thoughts that populate my noggin come from. Today, whilst packing the shopping into bags at Asda, completely out of nowhere I had an internal discussion with myself about how it [...]
Having had Emily at home all last week due to a nasty bout of tonsillitis, it would seem that the baton of grottiness has now been passed on to me. I wouldn’t mind being ill so much, if I were able to be off work with it, but in the current circumstances that will not [...]
I had a bit of a rant this morning. This I think is a direct reaction to the ridiculous nature of work at the moment. Each week sort of flashes by in a blink of hectic and chaotic nonsense, filled with insurmountable issues and impossible challenges, mixed with constant reminders of just how unbelievably stupid [...]
I still haven’t managed to mow the back lawn. I trust you have all been enjoying the wonderful British autumn? What was it that some famous poet bloke once said (I got an A at English Literature O level you know), it is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness? My arse. Once we get [...]
