Monthly Archives: June 2007

This is all getting very self-referential. First, I mention that someone searching for Alan’s Keir’s salary found my blog. Next I find someone else has ended up here while also looking for old Alan. He must be a popular chap, … Continue reading →

One of Hannah’s friends ran into our house the other day, clutching her mouth with a bloody tissue. It was drop off time after ballet class, not normally an activity closely allied to facial injuries. “Oh dear,” I said, “what … Continue reading →

I don’t know if it’s advancing age, changing interests or pressure of time, but I’m finding the Sunday papers aren’t as readable as they used to be. Time was I’d actually read the news pages, rather than scanning the headlines … Continue reading →

I’ve just installed – well my brother did it actually – a blog stats thingummy onto my site, and it’s weird what you can find out from it. I’m probably talking to people who’ve been doing this from Day One, … Continue reading →

At the risk of coming over all Woman’s Own on you, as in “Don’t they say the cutest things” I thought I’d pass this on. It’s not cute, it’s not even funny, it’s just weirdly philosophical. While waiting for Ben … Continue reading →

I’m in the wrong job. Not just a little bit, as in “I should have toiled a little harder and a little earlier so I could have climbed the slippery management slope a little further before chucking it all in, … Continue reading →

Our kids don’t get any pocket money. We used to give them 50p per week each, but we stopped. a) Because we kept forgetting to give it to them, and when they remembered Ben would make up how many weeks … Continue reading →

A weekend away: Friday evening in a pub listening to The Fallen Apples, chatting to two old friends about bands, people and pubs we have known. Of which there have been many. Saturday morning walking along the coastal path to … Continue reading →

Scary huh? One of my prizes was a meal for 4 at a local restaurant called The Moorings. It was very smart, and I took my three best friends from school, not my boyfriend who’d been there cheering me on … Continue reading →