Well, no actual holidays, but I've been quiet on here of late. Have been busy with the start of the school year, family-related stuff (nothing momentous, just the usual swings and merry-go-rounds of life) and writing away.

Book reviewing is not very lucrative, but free books are cool. Susan is currently the World Literature feature writer at Suite ( Read more... )

( It's like the canine/feline Helen Keller/Annie Sullivan! )

Rampant meme thievery from manoosha

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Paper - gotta love the wrapping of strange shaped gifts. THe kids get christmas pillow cases. Going to be hard to fit bikes into them this year. Doh!

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial. Live ones last about a minute.

3. When do you put up the tree? December 1 or thereabouts.

4. When do ( Read more... )

The Mr spotted these wonderful examples of tween collectibles while shopping with the Miflette the other day. Excuse the grainy camera phone pics, but they were too good not to be shared.

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This is what I wrote on here four years ago...

"It wasn’t good. It wasn’t what you wanted. It wasn’t what any of us wanted. Take a day. Take a week. Swear. Mourn. Swear some more. Then stand up and keep going. Four years ago I didn’t realise what the US Election outcome really meant. I couldn’t have predicted the direction that the world would take ( Read more... )

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5 questions meme from manoosha

1. Leave me a comment saying something random, like the lyrics from your current favorite song, or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like ( Read more... )

I'm trying to fix the song info in my itunes. One particular album of Gilly's is causing me grief, as it's a compilation (Party Girl 4 if you must know) and we have lost the CD cover. I can't find it on-line, so I'm just googling lines of songs and getting the info that way. Laborious? Yes. Do I have better things I could be doing with my time? ( Read more... )

I spilled egg down my front at the Mother's Day breakfast this morning, so threw my jumper in the wash and then to stay warm threw my dressing gown on over my jeans. Then forgot I was wearing it and answered the door to the postie in it at 2.30pm. Now that's what I call a look.

It has come to my attention (thanks missbingley), that my iPod is desperately in need of a name. OK it's not technically my iPod, since I bought it for Tone for his birthday, but what's his is mine etc etc, and as with the children, I get naming rights. Plus I probably wont tell him I named it, as I can only imagine the eye rolling and smirking that would ( Read more... )