Yodel. There’s a mosquito on my cheek ( Read more... )

Overheards ( Read more... )

It seems that archetypes, as well as number 9 buses, arrive in clumps ( Read more... )

...brain thief too. I went out leaving a gas ring lit, the door unlocked, my breakfast plates strewn everywhere and the phone off the hook - clearly the signs of a well-functioning person...

...also, there's a tweezer thief in my house. two pairs went missing and so I bought an obnoxiously pink (and obnoxiously expensive) pair, which incidentally didn't work, and now they too have gone missing...

I upped my dose of the thyroid medication (still 30mg below optimum) and, because I’ve done it twice now, I’ve straightaway noticed a pattern of black mood, insomnia and bad dreams. I’m sort of hopeful it’ll settle. Second opinion in a week’s time ( Read more... )

I just managed to make myself perfectly boiled eggs. A small triumph after all the others which have been a touch too liquid or a touch too solid. These were creamy and sunny and runny and now I want more ( Read more... )

S and her father again ( Read more... )

I'm at the end of two weeks in the Green Kingdom. Times moves so smoothly here, like water over stone. Outside the wind is high in the trees, the air is dry and clear, the sun sits in its blue blanket overall, but it is humming gently to itself, gathering its resources so it can blast us later in the year. We get cold and call for it and then it ( Read more... )

Couple of spare hours. N the R cancelled me and I’m lounging on the bed in my dressing gown with the beautiful rain shhhing outside. A pot of hyacinths next to me, blue wants to leave green as Denise R puts it, a low-slung heavy perfume clouding the bedroom. Almost narcotic. I wish the blooms didn’t have to fade in colour as they open. I love ( Read more... )