Other nonsense

  • First Day Back
    I have to put on the clodhoppers, enormous steel toe capped boots which were part of the required kit. No one on the gardening course e...
  • Style Forever - How to look fabulous at every age by Alyson Walsh
    Style Forever by Alyson Walsh (Hardie Grant, £12.99) Illustrations: Leo Greenfield I’ve recently been enjoying a new grown-up guide ...
  • Broken Collarbone or Clavicle in child
    I’m sad, and I’ve broken Erbie. I have been rushing around like idiot, trying to fit in one last this and one last that before leavi...
  • Meme from BelgianWaffling - stuff.
    1. Are you a male or female: Fe-male. Very female, I was such a tomboy as a kid, I got mistaken for a boy all the time. On a beach once, a f...
  • Moving, shaking, cleaning
    Our paperwork was accepted today, well the guarantor's paperwork, so now we wait for the contracts to be drawn up, and then have to find...
  • Never mind UDI’s tell us about the IUD.
    IUD or Intrauterine Device commonly know as 'the coil'. Ok, so I went along to my local family planning clinic, like a good girl, ...
  • The Rock and Sole Plaice
    On our walk back from the Thames yesterday evening we went for fish and chips with Grandfather. The Rock and Sole Plaice in Covent Garden...

Quote of the day

‘They tuck you up your mum and dad...’
Anon - after Larkin

“Philately will get you everywhere”
WEM

“It’s not the despair, I can handle the despair. 
It’s the hope I can’t deal with”
Clockwise

“Each new friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

‘Come on Dover move your bloomin’ arse’.
Eliza Doolittle