Given I can't understand how couples manage to find time to both hold down a full time job+look after their kids (and how single parents don't go insane I'll never grasp) I may be considered lacking in creativity.  However add in a requirement to do manditory volunteering that this model entails I'm at a loss to comprehend.  I did die and go to ( Read more... )

I spent some of last night as a spectator to the disfunctionality that is family.  My family are of course perfectly normal and therefore fails to work in a variety of ways. In the context of the situation that a friend is in (loss of close relative) for me this means I'm the "useless" one - the one that gets left out of all plans and is assumed ( Read more... )

the Abbey Inn (bottom of Pollard Lane, accessible by foot from the Kirkstall/Horsforth side of the river too) is having a beer festival this weekend.  They have a fine marque up already...
So anyone fancy going for a beer or 3?  Seeking Saturday companions for pre 9.30 (for they do not have Spain's match on TV)  so it would be great if anyone would ( Read more... )

I've not been to an agricultural show since I was a child when I was dragged around such things by parents who are farmers.  But this weekend I went to the Derby show - with purpose:  I was 2nd groom for a friend who was showing her vintage horse.  Not being a horsey person this definitely fell into the "do something different" category.  We shined ( Read more... )

having got a text yesterday re cat feeding for weddings (from people going to many this year ) was reminded of my summer of weddings last year.  Have now spent 14 hours trying to work out who the 6th wedding was, I know who the funeral was, I know 5 (J&G, A&E, P&C lilbro lilcous)but cannot for the life of me remember the 6th.  Oh dear oh dear.  I ( Read more... )

there appears to be a fancy foods related event setting up outside the library in Leeds today - it smells of olives and farmers market ( Read more... )

send medical help ( Read more... )

In 2 hours my special hell ends*.  I've had various conversations recently about this, since really I'm doing fine, I've not killed anyone, I've not actually gone insane.  I've not got anything tangible to explain why it's been so grim it's just all I can thing about as when it's over.  There will then be a huge vacuum in my life and that's when I ( Read more... )

At noon today it will be 100hrs before the end of my epic stint at work delivering training on things people are now asking me "is this going to go away now?" (er no.  Senioro Cameron mentioned it as a GOOD thing in the leaderships debates.  The fact that I'm trying to tell you it's cost neutral and he suggested 10% savings can be made with the ( Read more... )

Is it so very difficult for journalists to grasp that in the UK we elect our MP?   The system for all our parties varies somewhat but each party selects their leader who is virtually always one of those MPs and virtually always becomes PM shortly after an elec if they are the majority party.  The leader is generally someone who at the election has ( Read more... )