T-shirted (and polo-shirted!) slogans. Last Wednesday the waitress in the Deli had a message for everyone. “A good girl is just a bad girl who hasn’t been
Month: July 2007
Polite notice to London cyclists…
Dear cyclist. Bless. You aren’t a superior lifeform. You aren’t invincible. You aren’t invulnerable. You aren’t particularly clever. You haven’t taken a test of competency.
It’s an endangered species you know
My pillow. listening to How to Save a Life by The Fray, by the way. I was lying on my bed, partaking of some serious
Meanwhile, over in Spain
Daughter reports… She’s going to Cadiz. Camping. To a very special water park. Is it the one where they film the children’s television programme La Banda?
Monday evening blues
The Lovely S. Down. And I can’t be there – in Worcestershire – to give her the support and comfort that she needs. This sucks.
Last night…
WTF? I woke up this morning – ten minutes before the alarm – feeling as though I’d run a hard road race yesterday. Except I
Book review: Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
In many ways this is the ultimate children’s adventure: Pirates, natives, exploration, tension, scary scenes, humiliation, exhilaration, excitement, battle, peace-making, new enemies, new friends and
Food glorious food?
I just don’t get this… Müller Light Yoghurts. I can’t eat them, being a vegetarian. Because Müller Light Yoghurts contain gelatine. A yoghurt product? Containing
To the theatre…
On Thursday The Lovely S and I had an evening in the West End. A meal at Bertorolli’s followed by… Monty Python’s Spamalot! What can
The definition of purgatory is…
Shopping. In Worcester. On a Saturday. On a wet Saturday. When every chav in the county under the age of 16 is also there. With
A flying visit to the yard…
Dodging the many thunderstorms The Lovely S and I stopped off at the yard on the way back from shopping in Worcester yesterday. Unsurprisingly we
Holding out for a Hero
there’s been so much going on I’ll have to do a piece-meal catch-up We spent yesterday evening at Stafford (not Stratford!) Castle, Staffordshire. First we stopped