Category life

Imagine my delight to wake up with a roaring head cold this morning! No seriously, imagine it. The joy of the sore throat. The rapture over the headache. The absolute love of the sneezing and sniffling. The wonder at the capacity of my nose to drip at inopportune moments, even if I had just blown […]

It happens really rarely these days but this morning I woke up with knots in my stomach and a woozily head. I was anxious about the day ahead. I had had two late nights and hadn’t slept very well. None of that helps with anxiety. Well it actually does help the anxiety. It doesn’t help […]

Today I bought a microwave. It’s the first one I’ve ever owned in my life. That’s right. I have survived without one. But how do you defrost bread Wendy? Well up until lately I used to put it in the toaster for a short time. Either that, or I would get organised and get it […]

Goodness….this was going to be a post about International Women’s Day, Helen Razer’s blazing article and the Destroying the Joint project but after I started writing it I deleted the whole thing. I’ll just say this. I read Helen’s piece and Jenna Price’s response and I can see both their points of view and agree […]

I had every good intention to write a post about what I read in 2012. But now it is evening and I am tired and would not do it justice. I also realised that I haven’t kept track of my reading in 2012 very well. I can however, write a post about the way my […]

It’s not quite Grand Designs. The budget and scale of the project are minute. I’m not turning an abandoned chicken shed into a three storey, eco-friendly family home made of straw bales. I’m just turning my unused garage which usually stands empty except for a few cleaning bits and pieces, an old silky oak wardrobe […]

My mum bought me this excellent green saucepan in return for me looking after their garden while they went on holidays. I used it today for the first time. What gourmet delicacy did I cook up in it Nigella-style I hear you ask? Mushrooms. Not just any mushrooms. Mushrooms for the very important meal of […]

After days of hay fever I finally managed to get to the doctor and get a prescription for my heavy duty nasal spray. Almost instant relief. Of course the doctor’s visit was for something else. Two weeks ago I tripped up the stairs at work and gave myself a monster bruise on my shin. It […]

I shaved my legs this week for the first time since around the beginning of June. That’s right. You heard me. JUNE. It’s been too cold to bother with them. I’ve been wearing winter clothes so no-one could see the increasing hairiness and be shocked into speechlessness. I was not frightening any horses. That was […]

It’s my last day of work for nearly a week. Yes that’s right. At what has turned out to be the most hectic time of year I am going away on holidays and to a conference. In some ways it will be a relief to set my out of office messages and lock the door […]