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Customer rant
I need a rant.
Last night's intake included a middle-aged French couple and two familes, one Dutch one British, with two young children apiece. The English family and the French couple had dinner with us last night. The French woman sat through the whole meal with a face like a cat's bum and barely spoke a word directly to us, despite our attempts ( Read more... ) -
Honey
There's been quite a bit of excitement Chez Mole this weekend.
Himself announced on Thursday night that he was going to harvest the honey from his original hive on the Friday as it was predicted to be sunny and very hot. So, at high noon the following day he gets togged up in all the gear and sallies forth to do the deed.
The bees, of course, are ( Read more... ) -
The writer, her son, a book and a thorny question of ethics
Have been following this story over the course of the week:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/4971982/Julie-Myerson-author-of-book-about-sons-drug-abuse-admits-writing-family-column.html
To sum it up. Whiny media celebrity and author pens a book about her son's cannabis addiction, its effect on her family and alleges she had to throw ( Read more... ) -
A book meme
Couldn't resist this one .....
The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:
How do your reading habits stack up? [bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish]
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Ringing out the old and ringing in the new
2007 was definitely an annus horribilis for yours truly. 2008, while nowhere near so bad, hasn’t exactly been a bundle of laughs, either.
The death of my Father-in-Law in May, although long expected, was still hard for hubby and for my Mother-in-Law, who has been extremely brave. Diagnosis of a recurrence of the tumour on the site of my mastectomy ( Read more... ) -
Project Dog - and update
I’ve decided that, despite the ever-growing ironing pile and the million-and-one other jobs I have to do at this time of the year, it’s time for an LJ update - so here’s a belated status report on Project Dog.
First stage was successfully completed five weeks ago when we acquired Picsou (that’s him in my icon) from the local SPA, the French ( Read more... ) -
I should know better ....
........ than to argue with my French teacher.
During a conversation after the class yesterday yours truly mentioned that France had been well behind many other European countries on the issues of the abolition of capital punishment and votes for women. I’d drawn the conclusion from this that France must have been behind in implementing other ( Read more... ) -
The social life of the average mole
I’ve been rather bad about updating LJ lately and the only excuse I can offer is that I’ve been rather caught up in the intoxication of being able to go out and do things again.
Christmas seems a long time ago now. Since we got back we’ve developed something of a social life, a thing which was impossible last year because of my steadily worsening ( Read more... ) -
There but for the grace of God ......
I don’t often do rant but this has really got to me and I need to get it off my chest somehow.
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=496235&in_page_id=1879
For those of you who hate the whole link thing, here’s a summary.
Fran Lyon is 22. She was doing a degree at the University of Edinburgh. She discovered ( Read more... )