Nellie the elephant
It’s been a while since I did an equine update so… Vin’s headshaking continues to improve; the treatment seems to be capable of mitigating about
iPasapalabra!
I love this television show (Pasapalabra, obv), it’s not just a fast-paced word game, it’s also an instant vocabulary builder/combined language teacher. We hardly missed
Volunteers needed
Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of June 2010 sees the first of the Ascott-under-Wychwood British Eventing One-Day Event of the season. The classes being run
Music for your ears
Who is the female acoustic singer described as charming, self-effacing, pretty and extremely talented? And just how wonderful does her work sound? Who is the
No television due to a service ‘improvement’
I seem to be going through a spell of ‘service meltdown’ and I’m beginning to wonder who has got it in for me… We’re on
Not much cop
This post was written in real-time, but posted this evening when I got home to find we had working broadband again… ‘BT’ and ‘customer service’:
Daily Mail in Nazi Sympathising Outrage
It’s a funny thing. The Daily Mail recently dragged up a piece that Nick Clegg wrote and delivered years ago. Being the Daily Mail the
Absent friends, not close enough to touch
I have a friend. Her name is Ruth. Ruth has been a gossip buddy for many years – since before Daughter was born (though Daughter
Exclusive! Daily Mail staff in sex horror!
So I was just in the kitchen cooking one of my speciality snacks (you will notice I didn’t say ‘meals’), when I started wondering about
Daily Mail in Headline Fiasco, Fiasco
The Daily Mail, one of the most widely-read tabloids in Europe (but only, many people suspect, because people buy it because they can’t quite believe
Broadway result
Big write-up follows in due course, but there’s only 24 hours in a day so here’s the headlines: Dressage penalties: 30.0 Show-jumping penalties: 0 Cross-country
Only when I larf…
It is 8.30am Sunday and we seem to be watching Episodes 2, 3 and 4 of the new Doctor Who (or is it Dr Who?).
Feeling it?
We’re sitting on the couch listening to/watching a band from Soph’s youth on YouTube. Soph’s youth, obviously, wasn’t so long ago – her being a
WordPress comment problem, anybody?
Earlier today I got a tweet from a reader of this blog to say she had been trying to submit a comment here, but the
All change…
Just a few short weeks ago (what a stupid phrase that is. How can weeks be short?) I was constantly looking upwards, begging the rain
Sometimes my head just freaks me out
In last night’s/this morning’s dream, I invented, built and test-drove… A Fishing Car. Yes, I know. Because fishing is such a big part of my
Hot, horsey and lazy
Saturday: On Saturday I drove Tom to Aston-le-Walls which is in Northants (but only just, it’s a few miles from Banbury), to take part in
Gurgle, glug, squelch, gurgle, squelchhhhhh
the sounds you can hear seem to be emanating from my tummy. i blame the pizza and jacket potato skins that i’ve just sent to
Sinning with syntax
I love the Daily Mail, here’s two examples from today’s online offering to help explain why I love it so much… Headline: ‘Prisoner brain-damaged after
A little Tom update
We had a mini-meeting after the cross-country schooling on Monday, brought on by the discovery that Tom had bitten his tongue at some stage while
Wide awake at 2am is not helpful, but…
Last night’s vegetarian food-fest (prepared, cooked, eaten – half of it anyway – and washed-up afterwards by me, lest there be any misunderstandings) was a
You are what you read?
This posts comes courtesy of a couple of gentle digs about a newspaper I tweeted I was reading… I think it is important to begin
Man, I am so tired and I almost wrecked the lorry yesterday…
A mere two-and-a-half hours sleep last night, on top of the general stress, activity and rushing around of the weekend, all compound together to make
Nerves, nerves, nerves
pre-competition nerves starting to hit right now We plan on leaving the yard at 11.30 tomorrow morning. Our times are: Dressage = 15.16 Show-jumping =
In the studio/out and about
This Reality Podcast show #110 – which includes a live phone call with singer/songwriter Jessie Grace, a pre-recorded interview with singer/songwriter Ben Walker, four tracks
insert imaginative title here
So we’ve been doing really random things today and laughing a lot and giggling like kids and singing and Sophie’s cleaned the house and is
When is spam not spam?
Parental advisory: very strong adult language is contained in this post; very strong. You have been warned. Really. I’m not joking. This is bad. I
Roofing sharks
I walked down this road in Oxford today and thought I’d take a photograph of the shark, just in case you haven’t seen it before:
A bank holiday weekend stretches before us
It’s 8.30pm on (Good) Friday evening and the chocolate remains untouched. I know! Are we mad or just bonkers? But pizza has been eaten so
It’s a dogs breakfast
Here are two contrasting situations I’ve spent some time mulling over… 1. On Thursday this week, one year will have passed since Ian Tomlinson died
Sunday, brilliant Sunday
Up early because of the time difference; Tea and toast were taken back to bed and the Melbourne Grand Prix was (mostly) watched. Dozeage may
It’s a bloody kangaroo!
This is Tom at home yesterday. I am doing the laughing, Sammi is sitting on.
Surveying the horizon
From time to time I get surveys from YouGov. The surveys can be on anything, politics, economics, environment – you name it. I’m currently working
Mud, mud, glorious mud
really long post… Saturday’s BE went according to plan. Except for the dressage, the show-jumping and the cross-country. The weather broke on Friday and the
Saturday night’s all right for…
dicking around Nine o’clock Saturday evening and welcome to the House of Fun. As you will have noticed we are both in our bathrobes. Sorry
The times they are a…
published… Saturday’s pony party British Eventing One Day Event calls us for: Dressage 08.18 Show jumping 09.09 Cross country 09.58 This means a horribly early
Whoops outside your head I said whoops outside your head
Music news: After a brief meeting with Sony (and an almost as brief 15 minutes of fame), pop duo sensation Jedward have been canned dropped
Sports news
Can I say here and now that I’m tremendously concerned about David Beckham’s possible tendon injury. I am very pleased that GMTV chose to lead with this
On… Breasts
I was browsing through this evening’s TV schedules when a programme called ‘My Breasts Could Kill Me’ leapt out from the electronic page. Possessed of
Sexy sexy sexy!
It being a Saturday that Soph isn’t working we had a hectic start to the day. We had breakfast in bed, mugs of tea, watched
It might have been me…
Allegedly I swore at Soph at 4.15am. This doesn’t sound like me at all, does it? DOES IT?? Good, I knew we’d get the right
An early lunch
I’m on my way to London’s Glittering West End (when was it ever that?) for a working lunch with an Ad Agency. I love Ad
On having a deft touch (not)
This morning I put three minor edits in to Episode 2 of Shelved (the sitcom I’m working on). The trouble is that the minor edits
Time to try out this ‘sleep’ thing
OK, so last night we watched ‘Glee’, then tidied up and went to bed. I read for maybe 10 minutes before sleep hit and that
Barking mad
Why is it that our Government is playing with a proposal that will mean that all dogs will have to be insured – on the