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How much do you love your writing instruments? That bad hmm? Join the club. I’ve been trying to have a clear out, it’s been going on for days. I have huge numbers of writing instruments, despite the fact that the … Continue reading
Gate-crashing for the over sixties.
What’s your number? This is not the same as a chosen ‘lucky’ number. For years I thought mine was seven and incorporated it in anything, such as lottery numbers, that I felt needed some help from a number that belonged … Continue reading
I have a cunning planner
You’re meant to plan your life, these days. I know this because there was this inspirational couple (who were very inspiring because they’d lost weight and she’d had her teeth fixed, so they started lecturing, as you do) who issued … Continue reading
The seven signs of ageing
Eagle-eyed readers may have spotted that I visited this topic previously many years ago. As this blog has been going so very long, there is a possibility I was a mere child in my fifties when I did the writing. … Continue reading
The dangers of the free emission of flatus, and the subsequent effect on the ego.
Boris Noris, stupid boyHad habits you could not enjoy.His table manners were not greatHe let you watch him masticate.He licked his knife, he sucked his forkAnd, as he ate, he always talked. He was a windy child and grewAnd as … Continue reading
Stupidity in the older woman (localised).
I am part of a Covid study from a London University, which is being done quite scientifically apart from not taking into account the Stupidity of the Older Woman. This could also encompass the Stupidity of the Older Man for … Continue reading
Room 101
When my last laptop died it took with it a lot of photographs, some of which were of my old school. These were garnered on a trip back to school organised by old classmates. Not everyone was able to go, … Continue reading
Recycled joy.
The pandemic has thrown up some strange anomalies. One is the requirement to make a booking to throw rubbish away. Our local tip, manned by binmen, or, to put it in modern, our recycling facility, assisted by colleagues, lies at … Continue reading
Lurve and that.
The festival of St Valentine almost certainly had nothing at all to do with love. It is a late adaptation of the pagan festival of Lupercalia in which half-clad, quarter-clad or not clad at all young men ran round Rome … Continue reading
Recipes for difficult relatives.
Here we are in February, March is next (all the news, here, first.) For some of us this means that we have been shut indoors for a year with our relatives. How enchantingly easy has that been? The joy of … Continue reading