If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Time to say goodbye to a faithful travelling companion. My passport is about to expire and already is in the 6-month dying phase in which a lot of countries won’t accept it.
So, I’ve filled out the form to get […]

Where are the days going? Sunday already. Yesterday was a lazy day spent blowing noses and eating anything that might be filled with vitamins. Was feeling far better by mid-afternoon, so headed off to Helen’s with dad and Paul for her Christmas drop-in-drop-out.
Arrived to the sound of wailing children. There were only two of them, […]

Feeling fairly terrible, actually. The cold I’ve been fighting for a week with copious amounts of fruit and fruit juice chose yesterday to finally blossom. Woke up with a throbbing head and a nose that went from trickle to ugh over the course of the day.
That made getting out of bed very unpleasant indeed, so […]

I do enjoy being in on Christmas Eve. Travel is easy because so many people have stayed at home, and the office is quiet for just the same reason. And so we spent the morning eating chocolate cake and drinking gallons of tea while we listened to Abba and Christmas tunes.
Slowly the few of us […]

Dad’s here for his biannial visit and suddenly I feel like I’m the parent. I picked him up from his friend’s house after I’d finished work and stood there in the lounge, waiting for him with my coat on while he collected his belongings. On the table were little Christmas cookies cut into stars and […]

I am ready for Christmas. At last. The final bits were bought this morning, wrapped and distributed as necessary. The fridge and freezer are full. The cards are all written (including the late ones) and posted. Now we just have to sit and wait.
Was quite proud to have done all my wrapping without using even […]

Thursday: Too much to drink, so much dancing. Aching knees, whistling ears. All in all, though, a fab night, even if the bar did run dry around half past ten. We set off from the office, almost the whole of the team, just before seven, and walked down through Soho to Leicester Square in a […]

It’s turning distinctly cold, and the last two mornings have started with an ice-scraping session for both myself and the car. Neither of us particularly like it.
Asked the Midnight Weatherman about our chances of snow on Christmas Eve, like they were predicting in the Standard, but he was very non-commital. Either way, though, it’ll snow […]

There is something distinctly unsavoury about today’s news that the Labour Party wants to welcome Ken Livingstone back into its ranks with open arms. It’s nothing to do with politics - his, the party’s, or mine - it’s the whole air of commercialism that surrounds the transaction.
Three years ago, when he was expelled from the […]

Christmas came a step closer today as I made (yes made) and wrote all my cards. It was both a joy and a chore, depending on whether I was swearing at the printer, or sitting in front of the telly with hot tea and toast, scoring the spines of each one and then folding them […]