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Social life
Up late and planning to do nothing whatsoever on this Bank Holiday, apart from perhaps a little light tidying, and wishing you all a very happy (slightly belated) Easter.
The g-d’s friend Greta is off back to Bristol today (if she gets up in time), and I can get back to my solitary life. She turned out to be a much easier flatmate than I had feared ( Read more... ) -
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I’m nervous of jinxing myself by saying so, but things seem to be looking up a bit for me, Not only is it definitely spring now, with daffodils and everything, but I now have my Transport for London pass so that I can travel to see those daffodils and such in distant parts of the city for nothing. I was moaning a lot about not getting my free ( Read more... ) -
A grand day out.
I was puttering along happily enough at the beginning of the week, noticing all the cobwebs that seem to have appeared in the flat over the winter, and vaguely thinking of doing something about them, when the niece rang up. She is now on a proper contract with Chatham House, rather than being an intern, and her boss had suggested she take a week ( Read more... ) -
Humph
I normally think of myself as pretty intelligent, but every so often I do something so hugely stupid that I deserve some sort of medal. My TV can only work if connected to either the DVD player or the aerial (I have no idea why - it should, but that's the way it has always been). Last week, when I re-connected it to the aerial after a marathon of ( Read more... ) -
In which I actually get out of the house and go somewhere for a change.
Yesterday, I had a lovely time in Cambridge, with the god-daughter, who had to look at something in the university archive there. I think I may have visited Cambridge once before when I was about 16, and vaguely considering applying to the university. Things were rather awful for me at the time, and although I was down to take some sort of ( Read more... ) -
More weather - hooray!
I finally got out of the house for a short while this afternoon, to find that all the rain and wind had calmed down into a lovely, breezy, sunny almost-spring day. There were even a few crocuses and snowdrops out, to go with the winter aconites that appeared in the park last week. I was only out long enough to pick up some soup ingredients, and ( Read more... ) -
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I know I promised not to go on and on about the weather, but good grief it has been diabolical lately. I'm sitting up late, unable to sleep due to a horrible cold that made me sleep on and off for most of the day, and I've just listened to the single worst Shipping Forecast I have ever heard,. Thank heavens I'm not actually at sea - I usually ( Read more... ) -
Return of the duck lady...
Yesterday I had another appointment with the back-to-work people. I did see the mad duck woman last week, but she seemed to have completely forgotten about me, and spent all our very short interview trying to palm me off on someone else ( Read more... ) -
Cake or Death?
I haven’t been on here for a while, due to a delightful combination of computer problems and a bad chest infection (begun when I got stuck waiting for a night bus in a howling gale at 3 am, and realised I am no longer twenty), but here I am now.
Yesterday, I had all three of the god-daughters round for tea at once, for no particular reason. The ( Read more... ) -
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News report on the radio just now mentioned an artist in Taiwan who is sueing a souvenir salesman for making a 5-foot copy of the artists's 50 foot inflatable rubber duck, which exploded last year, after being attacked by eagles. Sometimes I really do wonder if I'm on the right planet.