There's a massive flock of starlings circling our street today. (We called them shepsters when I was a kid)They appear to be having fun swooping and diving, then landing in ever greater numbers on the rooves. Great to watch. Their reflexes must be lightening fast. I sometimes wish I was a bird, flying up and away whenever a threat strikes. It must ( Read more... )

My friend has lost his nought, his 0, his nothing. When he first mentioned it I wondered what he's been up to to lose something so vital. He says it just dropped off! Poor lad. What are the consequences of losing your nothing? Apparantly it's hard to space out your text without it. Phew-and I thought he's lost something really important! I'm sure ( Read more... )

Ever tried going midnight shopping round the supermarket with a karada on under your togs? It certainly put a smile on my face. :-)I don't think I've ever had a shopping experience quite like it, and I must have been the smuggest shopper there! (Apart from the sadist who put it on me lol ( Read more... )

Well, after a fraught few days concerning the fire and my car I'm now wondering who is making anonymous calls pretending to be the police with a complaint about my son being left alone for 5 days ??????? (totally not true) I finally got over to a dear fellow playmates last night and let him remove lots of stress from my system. I'm now home, much ( Read more... )

Well, what a lovely weekend. First my Friday nights adventures were curtailed by a fire in the house next door, creating a need to get home urgently and stay elsewhere overnight. It's good to know I have friends willing to help us when needed. Then, while boringly, quietly mending drawers and singing away to myself, some thug puts a window through ( Read more... )

So, he comes back to me tonight, my fifteen-going-on-fifty son who of course knows it all....and some. A whole week of blissful peace will end and the arguments, bullheadedness and frustrations recommence. How will I cope? Well, I could turn off my hearing aid (which will lower the volume of complaints and insults to a dull roar) I could TRY to get ( Read more... )