I don’t take leftovers to work for lunch, no matter how delicious and salivatary-inducing they are. I want to, but I don’t. I can’t. I won’t. It’s a hard and fast rule I’ve never broken and I never ever will.  And it all stems from the first time I saw a communal work fridge and realised that human beings are just really truly disgusting. Milk ( Read more... )

I like to pre-order books. By the time they arrive I’ve completely forgotten about them and it’s just this happy surprise that past me has sent to present me… and then I can pay it forward by pre-ordering some more books to send to future me. It’s this whole booky time-travel cycle thing I’ve got going on. And it works out really well too. Rarely ( Read more... )

When I got home today, I put the sprinkler on in the backyard (because I'm trying to grow some new grass in patches Jack has destroyed).

This is what ensued.


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There are the clothes I wear to face the world at work and at play, and then there are the clothes I wear when I’m at home. Home clothes don’t have to be stylish or appropriate or even fit right. They just have to be comfy. I’ve gathered a mish-mash of home wearing bits and pieces over the years - most are dorky and well loved, some have holes or ( Read more... )

Trigger Warning - do not read this post if you are on a diet or opposed to food on moral principle. Under the cut is a description of a dessert so detailed and drool-inducing that you will salivate all over yourself to such an extent that it will look like your mouth peed itself. Read on at your own risk.

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I don’t consider myself a spiritual person at all. Neither am I into anything that could be defined as “new age”. And yet, early this year, I found myself getting my chakras balanced and aligned. A combination of factors led to this unlikely scenario. Firstly, it was the start of a new year and people routinely behave in strange ways at this time, ( Read more... )

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Wonder Woman just turned 75 and wow she looks great for her age! I’ve been a fan since I was a kid. She was my second favourite super hero (The Phantom was my absolute favourite because he wore a purple outfit, lived in a skull cave, had only his wits and reputation with which to defeat his foes, and the skull ring looked wicked cool - I still have ( Read more... )

I thought I was going to hate Vegas and only stopped here because San Fran had some mega huge convention on during the dates I wanted to go there, so I had some time to kill before the hotels emptied out and prices went back to normal and decided, rather reluctantly, to spend it in Vegas. But I LOVED Vegas. It was so over the top that it was ( Read more... )