Sunday: CranfordFirstly, Judi Dench is an absolute legend. I will watch her in anything. Secondly, I will watch any costume drama. Thirdly, I haven’t read the Elizabeth Gaskell novel on which this is based. As I think about the whole question of tv adaptations of books, I believe that this is a good thing. It […]

The title of the post is self explanatory really. 1.It’s Friday2.I had fish and chips for dinner (with my parents and sister).3.We all fought over the last of the chips. Not physically fought you understand. More of a “why should you get the last one?”/ You’ve had more than me”/”I’ve hardly had any”/”But I paid […]

The title of the post is self explanatory really. 1.It’s Friday2.I had fish and chips for dinner (with my parents and sister).3.We all fought over the last of the chips. Not physically fought you understand. More of a “why should you get the last one?”/ You’ve had more than me”/”I’ve hardly had any”/”But I paid […]

You say unsealed stormwater drain. I say creek running through my back garden after a day of rain.

You say unsealed stormwater drain. I say creek running through my back garden after a day of rain.

I’ve been rather slack on the Pretzels and Puffy shirts over the past few weeks but here we return with a classic “The Jacket” from Series 2. Once again the stand up…this time Jerry’s dislike of clothes, shopping, wearing them blah blah blah, setting up the storyline centred on his new and very expensive jacket. […]

I’ve been rather slack on the Pretzels and Puffy shirts over the past few weeks but here we return with a classic “The Jacket” from Series 2. Once again the stand up…this time Jerry’s dislike of clothes, shopping, wearing them blah blah blah, setting up the storyline centred on his new and very expensive jacket. […]

I just stood on the cat. Accidentally of course.It was doing its usual “hiding under the kitchen mat in front of the sink like a great big tiger waiting for prey to walk past and then bat it with its paw” I was innocently cooking dinner and needed a cup of water so walked to […]

I just stood on the cat. Accidentally of course.It was doing its usual “hiding under the kitchen mat in front of the sink like a great big tiger waiting for prey to walk past and then bat it with its paw” I was innocently cooking dinner and needed a cup of water so walked to […]

I finally finished all the APA punctuation twiddling, the quadruple checking of everything in sight, the last minute spell check, the constant reformatting of the table of contents and plucked up the courage to send the manuscript to the publisher. I am now convinced that I will have done something ridiculous, like spelled my name […]