Other nonsense

  • Saturday outing: Hamleys Toy Shop London or ‘The Toy Museum’
    Regents Street in the morning I have been working from home for the whole Easter break, tied to a computer with poor Erbie by m...
  • Advent Calendars 2024
    The past few Christmases I’ve made TheGR a beer advent.  A different beer for each day, wrapped and labelled.  But this year, I'm shoppi...
  • Mood Tree
    Erbie is off school today with a nasty cough and sore throat. He’s pale and quiet. Which more or less sums up how I feel too.  Fancy a ...
  • 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...
  • Sex text?
    Yes, the question mark is deliberate, I really had no idea what to write.  The grandfather has decamped to the seaside for the week and will...
  • 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...
  • New Years Resolutions.
    The usual waking on New Years day bleary eyed and remorseful after too much of everything bad and good with vows of never again and nurofe...

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