Sometimes the strangest things happen almost without any warning. I got back into the office today after my weekend away and several things had happened almost without any warning at all. The first thing is I am definitely ill. After feeling slightly ropey (and taking a day off work yesterday) I returned today feeling even Read more about funny ol’ world[…]
The title of this post is not alas a reference to the weather but a recollection of the glorious (if somewhat damp) weekend I have just spent in a field near Exeter. The bands were all great but special awards for aceness go to three daft monkeys for continuing greatness, Idlewild for being my favourite Read more about What a beautiful day![…]
I had the most wonderful birthday I could have imagined, everything was great and all is now right with the world. As planned we went to see the chickens, and a new plan has now been hatched (pun half intended). The lady who keeps the Aracanas said that we need to hatch the eggs ourselves Read more about Back to earth till tomorrow[…]
It really is a wonderful thing. I had to stay behind at work yesterday as one of my friends was coming round for coffee but she didn’t finish till 5, so I had a bit of time to surf. There is so much stuff out there. My favourite place at the moment is Etsy which Read more about T’internet[…]
Yesterday was another horrible day at work but was more than compensated for yesterday evening. Mel had taken her giant marrow from the plant and so last night we had a marrow feast. We cooked up a bolognaise sauce using some left over sausages from the BBQ, a tin of chopped tomatoes, the inside of Read more about Marrow & Jammin[…]
First of all sorry for not posting yesterday, it is the first day since I’ve had this blog that I haven’t posted anything, the main reason was that I was stupidly busy with meetings but a contributing factor was that I was just a bit down and possibly wouldn’t have had anything that cheerful to Read more about Apologies & summer coming[…]
So this weekend was the great celebration for my Birthday, in the end about six people turned up but that meant that we had a royal BBQ feast as there was loads of food (and more importantly wine & beer) to go round. Fi & Alex made a guest appearance as did Em & Rich Read more about celebrations and their subsequent hangovers[…]
The title of this post is a quote from Joseph Conrad’s heart of darkness was adopted as a bit of a catchphrase in my uni days for anything that goes wrong. In this instance the horror referred to is men, I think, this time in general, although certain individuals will get special recognition (I realise Read more about The horror, the horror[…]
I PASSED I PASSED I PASSED I PASSED, hmph I meant I passed quite as I expected to, he he not at all, my faith in the ABRSM board goes down but I’m really glad they let me slip through the net 🙂 Robin however believes that time should not be wasted celebrating and has Read more about Fiddle sticks[…]
So yesterday in the absence of my friend Suzi (desk mate and primary stabilizing influence at work) I did some major chicken research in my lunch hour. Finding an Araucana breeder was more difficult than I imagined and now I have discovered there are two different colours of Arucana to choose from (this is a Read more about Chick chick chick chick chickens[…]