My deer mother
What do you mean, it’s almost the end of January 2017 and I’ve barely started posting this year? (Oops. Sorry about that.) Well, I’ve been busy, as it happens. My Mum came to visit! I got to pretend to be a daft tourist again for a few days. Any excuse, me. It was a great […]
An un-elf-y pastime
Selfies. We all take them (and probably too many of them). I hold my hands up to that – with my iPhone clutched tightly in one of them. This Christmas, my beloved Mum’s gone one better. We’ve moved on from emoji-filled text message wars. Seeing as texting me is now 10 times as expensive, there […]
Purpose-built blog post with excellent hyperlinks
Ah, the nuanced and implication-drenched language of estate agents, hoteliers and landlords. It’s rustic and full of charm: don’t turn the door handle too forcefully or it’ll come off in your hand. Attractively compact: get out of bed and straight into the shower! Three-minute walk from the station: if your name happens to be Usain […]
Things look different around here
They say the camera adds 10 pounds. I don’t remember eating a camera. Hello! Yes, this is me. Living it up in Japan. As if you’re not sick of me telling you. I’ve been here three months now, and at a conservative estimate I’ve put on three kilos. It might even be four by now. […]
Pasta disaster
For Christmas 2015, we got Dad a pasta maker. He wanted to make pasta, he needed a pasta maker. As he’d not long proclaimed he was cutting wheat out of his diet completely, I think you’ll agree it was the logical choice. The first proper outing this pasta maker got was for a dinner party […]
Being a boomerang
Yeah, I became one of the ‘boomerang kids’ this month. I shoved everything I own into double-walled cardboard boxes and did the boomerang shuffle. The bright lights and £7.50 cocktails of London faded away in the side mirrors on the removal van. I have gone back… back to the Midlands. Living in my old bedroom […]
