April 2011
1 post
Rules to live by?
Eat natural foods,
Bathe twice daily,
Fill your nostrils up with gravy.
Don’t drink tea and don’t drink coffee.
Cover your chin in yorkshire toffee.
I can’t follow 4, but I am quite partial to 5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZZBJQAKM
March 2011
2 posts
Domestic disharmony, or, the Calcutta Cup
Me: Come on Scotland!
Mr.B (glaring): You can’t support Scotland in this house!
Me: I can, and I will. You tell me not to every year, but I always still do.
Mr.B: Yes, and it winds me up every year.
Me: I know. Why do you think I do it so loudly?
January 2011
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November 2010
1 post
“There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her...”
– My dad used to say this to me at least once a week when I was growing up. He still trots it out every now and then.
October 2010
1 post
Some days...
…. like today, all I want to do is pick up the phone and call my mum for reassurance that everything’s going to be ok. But I know I can’t and then my heart breaks into little pieces all over again.
June 2010
1 post
“If you have only just enough money to buy a bed, a chair, a table and a...”
– ~Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols
May 2010
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January 2010
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November 2009
1 post
Baking day
The long day of baking for the Jul market is finally done. Here is the evidence:
Ginger biscuits, vanilla shortbread biscuits, chocolate fork biscuits, chocolate cake and lemon crunch cake.
[The lemon cake fell victim to the horrendously temperamental oven, so the bits you can see is all that were salvageable and won’t be going to the market - we’re going to have to eat them...
October 2009
1 post
Dear random person on Facebook,
I’m very sorry but I am going to ignore your friend request as I don’t actually know who the hell you are. You see, to me, the whole concept of ‘friend’ implies some kind of knowledge or previous communication at least, and liking the same stupid app on there is not really much of a link now, is it?
Your non-friend,
KB
August 2009
2 posts
The great console debate
Following my queries on twitter last night about the virtues of the PS3 v the XBox 360, I decided to broach the subject with the non-gaming Mr.B this morning.
The conversation went something like this.
Me: Can I get a PS2? It’s not a lot of money.
Him: What do you want one of those for?
Me: Because they don’t make enough games for the Wii that I want to play and I’m feeling...
July 2009
1 post
My 7 year old daughter decided to turn vegetarian at 4pm this afternoon, “because killing animals is wrong”; then ordered a cheese & ham pizza in the restaurant at 7pm. Her explanation when questioned? “Oh well, I don’t like pigs anyway.”
May 2009
1 post
New Scientist magazine’s Feedback column says that when reader Gary Kass downloaded an email from his daughter’s school entitled “Swine flu - Information for Parents and Carers”, his Norton security suite informed him: ”No virus threat detected”.
April 2009
1 post
“But I’ll never be man enough for you, you’re a psychobitch from hell.” Yup. ♫ http://blip.fm/~4p8ef