My kitchen knives are blunt as a blunt thing.  I have a Kitchen Devil Rollsharp sharpener, the kind that you draw the blade through, but the only thing it does it generate a tiny pile of grey dust on the countertop.  I have a steel, but I'm useless with it and the interwebs suggest that a steel is only useful for restoring the edge to an already ( Read more... )

With apologies to those who know the previous owner of this username and are thereby confused - but it's MINE now, ALL MINE mwu-har-har!

(With apologies to those who've already seen this message via email or Xbox Live.)

As many of you already know, and the rest of you are about to learn, I'm ambivalent about Christmas. I enjoy a week off work as much as the next middle manager, but I frankly find the whole cards, presents and festivities thing a bit wearing.

Once again, therefore, I ( Read more... )

I went to the practice nurse on Wednesday to have my stitches out, but some of them were too ... ugh ... to remove.  I'm back there this afternoon to see if the antibiotics have done the trick and the rest can come out.  I'm also going ask about the hard and painful lump that seems to be growing in my stomach muscles (or where they'd be if I had ( Read more... )

My stitches are a bit infected and really rather sore.  The out-of-hours doctor has given me horse pills which will, it is to be hoped, do the trick.

( Not much grisly detail, but enough for a cut... )

Greg lost his wedding ring on Monday. He looked everywhere, and then I searched all the same places properly. Twice. We got Dan and Caron to search their house in case he'd left it there at the weekend. We examined every inch of his work car park, both our cars, and the pavements and roads near our house. We searched every room of the house, ( Read more... )

After not losing any weight for several weeks I've finally dropped the pound I needed to hit a milestone - 4 stone lost since February this year. Another 1 stone 4 to go before Operation Baby (IVF) can commence.

Dermot the Dermoid Cyst and I will formally be ending our intimate relationship on Wednesday 3 December at a short* ceremony in the Gynaecology Unit at St James's Hospital in Leeds ( Read more... )

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