This coming Wednesday my husband is driving us west so we can go see "Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical" because it is *his* show (and he can get tckets on the company *winks*). By *his* I mean it's the one he has responsibility for hauling. He's had it a while, but this is the closest it gets to our home town until December. So YAY! ( Read more... )

I lost a debit card the other day, I've found it since, and while I was hunting for it I found one of my old writing journals. I've pretty much forgotten I used to be able to write anything.

It's donkey's ages old- Fine, 6 years old. Amongst other things, it has one of the first drafts for "Left,Left, Left", as well as "Times Ten to the Minus One" ( Read more... )

Community spirit is great. Don't get me wrong. I am a big fan of it ( Read more... )

...who fell in love with Milo on sight. She was walking her rescue chihuaha called Wolfie, and he was running around very busily being a Dog, and not a fashion acccessory, which I felt I had to remark on, so she told me that when she got him he had no idea what to do when he met another dog and was very growly and nervous (possibly due to him ( Read more... )

*Sort, bin, move everything not binned to somewhere else to make room for more stuff to come in (repeat from ( Read more... )

My brother and I have spent the best part of the 3 weeks since sister and I got back from the Big Family Wedding, doing round trips to my sister's to de-clutter her bedroom and her loft (lots of visits to the tip), rip up her bedroom carpet and paint her bedroom walls. We've also been frantically searching for new furniture for her - both online ( Read more... )

I got so distracted by the hideous new posting page I forgot to do what I'd actually come in here to do ( Read more... )

Or: My dog starts lurking as soon as the Archers' theme tune starts ( Read more... )

My daughter (currently somewhere down towards the Cape Town end of South Africa) just shared some photos with me.
So I'm sharing this baby giraffe with you guys.


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The *only* thing that's gone to plan, since last Friday, was the electrician turned up promptly on Saturday to install us some new plug sockets. I thought I was going to be able to leave him upstairs quietly getting on with stuff, while I read, drank tea, ate biscuits and read over at Kgal's, then we discovered that rather than having an upstairs ( Read more... )