Today I am relocated to the kitchen, with my comfy chair and my computer, and access to the kettle and supply of teabags, while all around me chaos reigns. Because today we are having a new carpet fitted ( Read more... )

The other day I was sitting in my comfy chair in the living room, when I heard Black Cat maowing out in the hall. I knew it was Black Cat, because Black Cat is a very vocal cat. Unlike White Cat, who, when really, really worked up can managed to force out a tiny, pale pink meep, or even Big Cat, who, despite his size and general resemblance to a ( Read more... )

Instrument of Satan Phone: *Ring! Ring!*
Me: (brightly, but with a hint of insanity reflecting the fact that it is 4.55 pm on a Monday at Container Word) "Good afternoon! Container World!"
Disembodied voice on telephone: "Hello, it's Joe Customer of Container Manufacturers Unlimited. Can you hold the line for a moment?"
Me: "Of course!
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Yesterday I had an appointment for a cervical smear test at the local health centre, but as is the way of things when the universe hates you and is conspiring against you, my period started the evening before so I had to ring up and reschedule it. And the receptionist at the health centre made me another appointment... exactly four weeks after the ( Read more... )

Well, no doubt you'll all have heard the happy news by now. The Beckhams, who have obviously decided that over-population and scarce resources are just someone else's problem have added a fourth child to their family and saddled the unfortunate sprog with the name of Harper Seven ( Read more... )

New Thing Number Two ( Read more... )

I have two new things! And another new thing on the horizon. Much newness! Much excitement!

Here comes new thing number one:


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Fortunately for our family finances, The Husband has a Proper Job. The sort that pays a decent amount of money commensurate with his not-inconsiderable skills and knowledge, that has a pension scheme and bonuses and overtime rates and public holidays and Christmas dos and an all-singing-all-dancing coffee machine, and all the other things that the ( Read more... )

Another booze cruise successfully completed, whay hay! And the added bonus of a mini version of The Grand Tour of Europe. If you've ever wondered what it's like to do three countries in half an afternoon, wonder no more, for here is the experience brought to you by the miracle of the Internet. And my phone. Yes, I can work the camera now, ( Read more... )

We're off on another booze cruise. It barely seems any time since we did the last one, and, in fact, it isnt. This is because there are several side effects of having adult offspring living with you long past the time they should have departed lo live in their own squalour; one is that they keep you awake all night playing games on the Interwebs ( Read more... )