Saturday , September 30, 2006 – 16:16
So.. I’ve been baking cupcakes a lot lately. It was my birthday on Wednesday, and one of the traditions at my workplace is that the birthday person provides cakes for everyone.
I thought I’d be different and actually make them myself. There are 80-odd people in my company, so this was no minor undertaking..
It all turned [...]
Wednesday , September 20, 2006 – 17:20
Even though thingsonsticks has more or less faded into sticky memory, I still retain a certain fondness for items on sticks, so I was particularly delighted to come across the artist Brian Pike and in particular, a picture called ‘Things on Sticks’.
Have a look. I’m sure you’ll see the appeal.
Philb and I have decided that we [...]
Friday , May 12, 2006 – 21:14
Words cannot describe the sheer elation we feel right now. Random cat has been found and safely relocated back here.
About 20:15 this evening, we had a phonecall from the vet to say that Random had been spotted in their car park and that they would try and keep his attention until we could get there. [...]
Saturday , April 22, 2006 – 11:36
Well, there’s a thing. In this post I mentioned that we had received an Easter card intended for another set of Braggs entirely.
I was kindly directed to a Rhiannon Bragg on friendsreunited by ShadowTail, who posted a comment on my blog.
£7.50 later and I sent off a message…
I received a reply, and bingo! Owner located!
Weirdly, [...]
Wednesday , April 19, 2006 – 21:16
So, the pixie and I accompanied most of my work colleagues to ten-pin bowling this evening. Well, we watched, they bowled – it all looks scary.
Sky sports was on the TV alongside the bowling-score screens. I was idly watching the Arsenal match, as one of my colleagues had gone to the match tonight, instead of [...]
Friday , April 14, 2006 – 21:40
Some time ago, I mentioned to my husband that I would find it amusing if eyelids made a clicking noise.
This has resulted in sporadic outbreaks of making-clicking-noise-with-tongue-while-using-eyelids. Using eyelids? Operating eyelids? Whatever, you know what I mean.
It looks amazingly cute and funny, although that could be because philb is unbelievably pixie-like. He looks rather like [...]
Saturday , April 1, 2006 – 16:06
I have decided it is now warm enough for our lemon-children to venture out into the sunshine. Of course this now means that I can take pictures of them, ably assisted, as always, by Mogret.
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Saturday , April 1, 2006 – 14:04
Waitrose organic pre-prepared pineapple (in the chiller section) and half a pink grapefruit make for a yummy lunch.
Philb pointed out that the addition of some lemony goodness might have improved the blend still further, but by the time he did so, lunch had been consumed. Something to note for next time.
Incidentally, it is worth paying [...]
Thursday , March 9, 2006 – 19:50
I’m doing another Open University course at the moment: Relational Databases. Admittedly it is more for light relief, but it is still 30 points towards a degree. So far I have read through all the materials and am impatiently awaiting the next batch. Due to be posted 7th April. Bah.
On previous courses there was a [...]
Wednesday , March 8, 2006 – 20:45
Our precious drama-lemons have all suddenly sprouted thorns. In the last two days.
Well I’m not much of a lemon-parent, clearly, as I was unaware that lemon trees grew thorns. Seeing as our lemons are only two years old, well, almost three years old, they are really only trainee-lemons; but they seem to have bounced back [...]