We had Fake Thanksgiving yesterday, and if I do say so myself I pronounce it a great success ( Read more... )

I had the quickest drink &meet in the world in a pub with some beautiful people where a man tried to sell us dodgy M&S steak ( Read more... )

Well my faith in life and human nature has been redeemed somewhat since I've received multiple phonecalls from people who saw my missing cat posters to inform me of Zelda-sightings. Zelda appears to be roaming around not too far away from her original home but showing no dedication towards coming back which leads to various theories ( Read more... )

My baby is almost a month old and comparison with some other babies his age leads me to conclude that

a) he is a giant - longer and fatter than most children his age. (He has nearly outgrown his Moses basket, and he is filling out 3-6 month clothes very comfortably indeed).

b) also beating them in screaming the house down. Other children, normal ( Read more... )

Occasionally when I'm feeling weepy and unsure about what good my life on this earth does to anybody, all I have to remember is the state of Z's shoes and trousers before we started going out and my Life's Path It Opens Up and Shines Shinily Before Me ( Read more... )

N has fallen asleep with all her mascara and eyeliner and eyeshadow on after a night out because she is a lazy tired fule.

In the morning, N to Z: Do I look like a panda?
Z [sleepy, squinting]:No, you look beautiful. Like Chrystel in Dynasty when she wakes up with all her makeup on.Holiday ( Read more... )

The weekend was lovely and sunny, and I went swimming for which my hip and lower back has still not entirely forgiven me. Sunday was spent in the garden of the Z, spraying ourselves with water in order to not die of sunstroke and in recognition of my efforts to expose it to the heat of the day my skin has begun to turn a golden shade ( Read more... )

Yestereday I waas halfway to the Westbourne Park Tube Station [in preparation to catching the Hammersmith&City Line to Hammersmith, to see in chronological order sorceresz,+ Emma, miss_newham, and Tori Amos] when The Biblical Flood started and the skies emptied themselves upon my raiments ( Read more... )

What with all the eating and drinking and making merry and the springtime in the air, I haven't done proper blogging-of-daily-life for ages!
So here's a belated update and summary of the last week.

On Friday night, I headed down to Statford to indulge in an evening of Farscape Watching, pizza eating, wine drinking and other general bohemia with norantiskitchen ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to elethe!

I hope you have a fab day and a year filled with rewards of creative fire!

Yesterday it appears that everyone but annasilverlight and me were at the Dead Can Dance gig, which I'm a bit guttered about since I love DCD but have no one but myself to blame for insufficient alertness as to the fact that they were playing. [Although I'm pleased ( Read more... )