Monthly Archives: January 2006

faithful mog

I’ve been at home all day; it’s a weird feeling – being off work and being alone in the house. Well, alone apart from the cat device.
The reason I’m off work is that I apparently have labyrinthitis. My husband says it’s caused by too much David Bowie, but I fear he is A Silly. I [...]

the myspace debacle continues..

For reasons that escape me, a Floridian teenager created a myspace account and used my gmail address to do so.
Attempts to get her to rectify this have so far failed. After I grew exasperated and defaced her journal (only mildly, I hasten to add) and left a blog post for her expressing my dissatisfaction, she [...]

all praise to nhs direct

This morning, at around 04:30, I woke up. The room span, my eyes wouldn’t hold still and I couldn’t focus on anything. I felt nauseous. Every slight movement of my head caused me to vomit.
As you can probably imagine, this was pretty terrifying, as I’d never experienced anything like it (when sober). In a panic, [...]

Trains

As many of you will know, I schlepp my weary carcass from Maidenhead to Basingstoke at an ungodly hour of the morning. One of the unexpected benefits of this routine is that I get to see some pretty cool sights of a morning usually involving sunrise, a windmill, a rubbish tip, deer and some random [...]

wifely duties

Apparently, as of October 2003, one of my duties in life is to remove, at the end of the day, the socks from the feet of my husband. He experiences what is known as ’sock time-out’ and when this happens, the socks must be removed with all speed.
Foot massage is also appreciated but not a [...]

blind insensitivity

There is a lady who gets the 17:37 from Basingstoke to Reading. Well clearly there are many, but this particular lady has a guide dog called Hugo. Hugo is mostly a solid, dependable character, but tends to be a bit skittish with loud noises, so the first time I encountered him and his owner, was [...]

Early-morning frolics with the cat

How does your cat wake you up? Assuming you have one, of course.
The Mogret has many tactics for awakening us; they vary in intensity and ignorability. Mostly she will start out with the typical greeting blorp, to let us know she has decided that it is Morning. If we fail to respond to this with [...]

Do I look incapable?

I realise that some clarification is needed here: I’ve already expressed sympathy for the individual telesales operator at the other end of the telephone, attempting to beguile me with their wares. I still maintain this position; it can’t be an easy job, and is one that is met mostly with resentment and intolerance.
I’m afraid that [...]

light entertainment

My husband is currently laying on the bed, tormenting our lemonlight by sending it on/off signals from his laptop. Is this a good use of technology?

Call-centre-operative-baiting..

I have an inherant sympathy for the poor person calling from a call centre. Unless you are particularly masochistic and enjoy daily abuse and rejection, it cannot be a pleasant job to do.
My husband, on the other hand, feels no such compassion. It gives him great pleasure to wind up the poor unfortunate caller, admittedly [...]