Sometimes, there you are, trundling along, minding your own business, when the world, (or in this case my beloved), does something amazing. We were sitting at the dinner table, having a lovely meal with his mom and Ben, when the subject of engagements and rings and marriage an all that stuff came up. Shortly after, I found myself with my ( Read more... )

It's just not Christmas till I've seen the Budweiser ad. When I've seen it, I shall announce the official start of the season!!

Had the fun of looking after Fergal's cat this weekend. First of all, she had me convinced she was dead this morning, I had to poke her to get a response. Then she went into classic, 'old lady disturbed from deep sleep', "Harumph, WHO ARE YOU! WHERE ARE MY PEOPLE! I'M 82 YOU KNOW!!!!! Silly cat. I can now however, understand Fergal's expression ( Read more... )

Sometimes, you wander through the valleys of darkness, sometimes, the world opens up and shows you a beautiful, sacred place. And sometimes, there is grey. Or gray. Or confusion ( Read more... )

Its that time of year again, and some of you may be having a feeling of, 'Shouldn't I have been somewhere last weekend?'. Well, that would be due to the LT having the appalling manners to hold an event on the weekend of my birthday, although getting the excuse to drink mead in a field with lots of mates is not to be sneezed at. However, I digress ( Read more... )

It's ridiculous o' clock in the morning, and I can't sleep. I'm just back from what, for me, was maybe the best event I've ever had. I have aches in places I didn't know I had places, my brain resembles cold porridge, but I'm sporting a grin a mile wide. I had some awesome roleplay moments, some fabulous combat moments, plot thrown at me with a big ( Read more... )

Well, I wasn't expecting that. Sometimes, despite everything you do to avoid/prevent/circumvent a situation, there it is. In full technicolour, wide screen, and HD. Sometimes your children surprise you, in ways only the most twisted of gods could devise. Suffice it to say that today was...interesting ( Read more... )

Wow, 14 weeks since I last updated. Frankly, it's been about that long since I've bothered reading it either. SAD apart, its been an... interesting winter. The ongoing... struggle, with my older son finally degenerated into name calling , recriminations, and me kicking him out ( Read more... )

And every now and again, you just want to grab
Random Joe's head and artfully drag it across the pebble dash....

The semi-organised madness is upon us again.

The theme this year is The Snake Queen's Cave.

So grab some face paint, two colours, (lighter underneath, eg green or yellow, darker on top, black, brown, dark green etc.) and a pair of fishnet tights. Oh and a sponge. Wear something dark and either really floaty or reasonably close fitting and practice ( Read more... )