Even if you don’t much like people, there is no denying that summer, with its high saturation of tinsel, resolutions and warm evenings is most definitely party season. Usually, I escape this time with nothing more than a sense of self-loathing due to flashbacks from the work Christmas do, but […]
If, like many, you have been housebound by a lockdown lately or carrying the burden of essential work, you may feel that you have aged years in the past few weeks. Let me just say, I feel your pain and hopefully we will be out the other side and able […]
I was busy lying on the couch the other day, watching Housewives of wherever, when an ad came on for some miracle cream, undoubtedly lovingly crafted from the spleen of a unicorn and the left hoof of a centaur (a unitaur if you will …. mind wandering already – Danger […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, well it is according to Christmas crooner Andy Williams and actually, given the rampant delights offered by 2020, any time that edges me closer to the end of it, I consider downright bloody marvellous. Despite the giddy abandon we may be collectively […]
The concept of self care is everywhere these days . As an antidote to our often stressful and time poor lives, being reminded to take a moment to be kind to yourself can be much needed relief. Given that 2020 is pretty much the year of continually waking up screaming […]
Well, to quote every email I have received since mid March, we are “living in uncertain times” and “learning to navigate our new normal”. That last one does throw me. I am unable to determine my left hand from my right, and often lose our vehicle in the supermarket car-park, […]
If like me, you vacillate between a morbid fear of isolation and complete social repulsion, any gathering can pose conversation conundrums. What do you chat about while holding a sausage in a piece of bread in one hand and a glass of wine in a plastic cup in the other, […]
The universe is governed by an unalterable set of laws. The fundamental rules of physics – motion, mass and energy, thermodynamics, if you drop your toast it will land jam side down and your dog will have just deposited a fist-sized ball of excess hair in the exact site of […]
Our son recently moved out, which created an empty space at the back of the house. As we all know, nature abhors a vacuum and so, it appears do teenage daughters. Ours decided that she would like to acquire this newly available piece of real estate, along with the small […]
There are around three quarter of a million words in the English language and approximately 1,000 new word entries to the Oxford dictionary annually, and yet somehow English still doesn’t always serve my linguistic purposes. Other languages have wonderful words that my native tongue simply has no equivalence for. Some […]
The other day, my good friend called, she works in radio and wanted a sound bite from me about a story that had just crossed her news desk. This story was, as she knew it would be, right up my alley. For two reasons, firstly it was weird and secondly […]
I got de-friended on Facebook the other day. Well to be fair, I have no idea when the actual “defriending” took place, probably months ago, but I only noticed the other day. My lack of awareness of this relationship derailment was most likely due to the fact that we hadn’t […]
Being a young child in the 70s was awesome. We played outside, built stuff and ate things we found growing on bushes (this did not always work out brilliantly, to be fair). But lurking like an ominous, giant, profile of the Queen on the other side of the coin, were […]
Life is full of embarrassing moments; in fact if you’re me, it could be suggested that life is simply a series of converging, embarrassing moments. However, not all of these moments are created equal, there is a sliding scale of embarrassment, a hierarchy if you will. Last week, whilst devouring...
Some wise person once floated the idea that the more things change, the more they stay the same. I’m more toeing the Bob Dylan line on this one; the more things change… the more they change. Nothing makes you feel as out of touch with the modern world as having […]
A life is made up of many acts, we evolve as people or in my case, get more certifiable daily. Heraclitus posited “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” I just look confused and say “Whiskey.Tango.Foxtrot?” […]
A.K.A it’s New Year’s Eve and I can’t believe it’s been a year since I didn’t become a better person! Ahhh, the New Year, a time to take stock of your life and face the future with a new, positive outlook. Or, if you are me, a time to lie...
