Monday , January 15, 2007 – 20:39
Rows of owlses, originally uploaded by synx508. I forgot to mention this, but it is an important moment. We have lived in this house for nearly 2 years. The owls have lived in tissue-paper cocoons in a series of boxes for many many more. I have been stalking display cabinets for nearly 2 years. Finally [...]
Monday , January 15, 2007 – 19:10
new hair, originally uploaded by Purplekitten. Deep Purple by Special Effects stains like nothing on earth. I went to get out of the bath this morning when my husband pointed out that I was roughly the colour of Ribena. As this is not a flattering skin tone, I scrubbed once more. I do like the [...]
Wednesday , December 6, 2006 – 21:02
On the 07:38 to Basingstoke, there is generally a herd of college kids sharing the train with me. Mostly, they are unobjectionable, but there is one young man who insists on wearing his trousers only half-way up so that anyone walking behind gets a good view of his scrawny emo-kid be-panted butt. What the hell [...]
Wednesday , September 20, 2006 – 18:47
A friend of mine, who shall remain nameless as one day he hopes to be a respected lawyer, came out with the following (during a conversation about latin phrases used in law): “assuming polar bear poo freezes, so decomposition is very slow, if the ice melts due to global warming, will we get flooded with [...]
Friday , September 8, 2006 – 12:07
Never have I been more aware of not being ‘one of the boys’ than I am right now. There is a pool match at the pub, arranged between the two male members of IT and two other people from the company. As it’s not unusual for the whole IT department to go out to the [...]
Tuesday , August 15, 2006 – 20:50
Yet again I’m stealing wi-fi in order to foist my opinions upon the world. I’m perched upon the sofa of my mother-in-law, fretting and eeking about the fact that I have a very minor operation scheduled for 07.45 tomorrow. Not that I want it to be a major op. I’ve just never been operated on [...]
Saturday , June 17, 2006 – 19:38
Strawberry, originally uploaded by Purplekitten. Owing to an impulsive plant-purchase, we are currently cultivating strawberries. This is the first of the crop, and hopefully there will be plenty more to follow. This strawberry was the nicest strawberry I have ever tasted: it was very juicy, deliciously ripe and had the most amazing flavour. All other [...]
Thursday , June 15, 2006 – 18:31
Rest easy, I am not temporally displaced, this is not an Easter reference. I merely found myself musing on the sudden insertion of both into my life and wished to comment thereon. For the previous seven and twenty years of my life, I had remained blissfully unaware of the abundance of rabbits that grace almost [...]
Saturday , June 10, 2006 – 17:39
Before I married philb, I shared a house and a life with another man, and a varying number of cats. Victoria Elvina, the eldest, was a regal, totally-black lady who ruled the household with an iron paw. We lost her in 2001: found her lying on the ground outside, having died some time during the [...]
Thursday , May 25, 2006 – 21:06
I’ve found it! That is, a phone that can contain my life cheerfully and still be useful as a phone. The 9300i is fantastic. Okay, it’s a little bigger than my old phone, but it has to be to fit that glorious, lavish screen in. And boy do I appreciate it. No more lugging round [...]