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There has been a veritable chocolate egg famine since the end of my childhood and then suddenly this year - boom - an egg explosion (I’ll refrain from saying egg-splosion) with eggs coming from every direction.
A Darth Vader egg from Paul to me, an After Eight egg from me to him, six creme eggs between […]

Does anybody want a free settee (or ’sofa’, if you prefer)? I have decided that it is best to let the flat unfurnished, so it’s time to say goodbye to what has been a trusty friend for the last few years. It’s very comfortable, and I have spent many nights sleeping on it, as it […]

Tradition apparently dictates that we go out for dinner on Good Friday. I’m sure this must be the case, but as I can’t remember when all the Good Fridays of the last few years were, I can’t go back and check.
So anyhow, after a day of being generally limp and lazy, flopping around in the […]

Yesterday was Julian’s last day. After 14 years, he was leaving the magazine, so we took him out for lunch and then went for a drink after work to celebrate his new-found freedom.
We weren’t entirely surprised that he arrived late for his own leaving lunch. Fortunately we were eating just down the road, and it […]

I’m cat sitting. The last time I did this, it was a bit of a thrill to come and live in a big house for a week, and when I went home the flat felt poky and small. Now, though, I live in a bigger house than this one, and it doesn’t feel quite the […]

So, my suspicions were correct: I don’t have a tenant at all.
I rang the agent this morning and asked her how things were going. She explained that she had re-advertised but that she wasn’t too hopeful. I explained that I didn’t even know the original tenants hadn’t moved in, so had gone ahead and registered […]

I’m starting to suspect, quite seriously, that I don’t actually have a tenant at all.
I’ve been checking my account each day to see when the agent has paid in the first month’s rent, but so far… nothing. She has also ignored my email asking if all went well with the move.
So, getting curious, I drove […]

How quickly the years fly by. Last night was the Creative St Patrick’s party, which is always well attended and well worth attending. It barely seems a year since I was falling down the stairs at the end of the last one and somehow staggering to the station.
This year I was much better behaved: a […]

I feel so much better tonight. I made it into the office yesterday, having worked from home on Monday, but after a rough night last night I stayed home again today. I do enjoy working from home, where the sun streams in through the window. Even today, in mid-March when it’s technically just about spring, […]