Walking back from the shop just now, I saw a Men at Work sign in the road. I found a man and his van practically in my garden, mending the street lamp. When I spoke to him, he called me Ma’am. Twice.

I don’t make new year’s resolutions but I have made a decision which I’ll try to stick to. With a couple of exceptions, I will no longer make any comments on blogs where the writer never replies. It makes me feel: ignored; that I may have said something stupid; that the blogger has taken a dislike to me for some reason (fair enough ( Read more... )