Other nonsense

  • Day 3 of alarm going off - time to move
    The alarm finally got turned off at 9.30 monday morning. We posted this sign on the door at 7.30am, and posted it through the letterbox with...
  • We did it!
    We bought our flat from Belle Mere and moved in. We spent 12 years doing it up and then we bought it! It’s marvelous. I was worried I wouldn...
  • 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...
  • UDI’s
    Unspecified Drinking Injuries were once a common part of my life, being an easy bruiser (not a butch bully boy but a delicate flower who ble...
  • Hobbs New Arrivals
    Image: Hobbs Stripes have been done to death over the past few years but they are still ubiquitous and I still love them. This window displa...
  • Go on bus
    Erbie has started putting two words together - mainly ‘go-on bus’ and ‘go-on choo choo’. He is slightly bus obsessed. The one I got him from...
  • The portrait of Dorian mummy
    I must drink more water, I’m shrivelling up like a prune, that wonderful pregnancy glow has long dissappeared. We’ve been filming five minut...

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