Part Two – I blame the weather… …. presenters. That’s not to say I don’t love them. Particularly the BBC ones. Sometimes I stay up when I’d really prefer to go to bed just to see who is presenting the weather that night. Then I have to watch not only the News at Ten weather but also stay … Read More
Would it be alright if I have a bit of a….
….RANT?? About the Weather? Just a little one. I mean I don’t want to go on about it too much or anything, but it’s this – WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO OUR FECKING SUMMER??!!!! It occurs to me that dealing with disappointment might not be one of my strengths and quite frankly this wretched summer has taken the … Read More
Ageing Disgracefully Part Two ….
Ageing Disgracefully… Part Two – Sunday. 07.47 Oh God. Transfixed, I peer into our desperately unforgiving bathroom mirror. I am looking at a giant, puffy, bright red, bulbous tomato. It is me. I am a giant, puffy, roasting hot, bright red bulbous tomato! I shut my eyes and take a breath. Through half closed lashes I peer again. … Read More
Ageing Disgracefully ….
Ageing Disgracefully… Part One – Saturday. 06.37 You have GOT to be joking! I stare in fascinated horror at the humungous, shimmering, perfectly poo-shaped quivering mass resting atop my right bicep. Eerily transparent, it wobbles with outer-space other worldliness in the early morning gloom. I try not to panic. It’s still coming! Squinting through the pale … Read More
Our layabout 15 year old Boy Wretch….
… is asleep, which I appreciate is hardly an unusual state of affairs, and admittedly not particularly noteworthy if that single piece of information is to be taken at face value. However, there are a couple of reasonably unusual factors at play here: 1. It’s 1700 hours. That’s 5pm in old money. I clarify not because you won’t … Read More
Post New Year Blues – Part Three…
…. Loud crash of smashing porcelain as a delightful blue and white china bowl hits our newly laid wooden floors. I curse. It’s one of my favourites and part of a set. Of course it is. It couldn’t possibly be an old gnarly, already chipped bowl now could it? No – it’s got to be one that you really like … Read More
Post New Year Blues – Part Two…
….Painfully aware of the loudly ticking clock and urgent need to get the dogs outside for wee-ing and poo-ing – (ditto the kids, although I do allow them to use the bathroom these days – boom-boom!) I stumble down to face the onslaug….. the day. Boy Wretch One up unusually early for revision purposes, and there’s breakfast to be conjured … Read More
Post New Year blues – Part One
January. 06.05. Dank, dismal. ‘Nuff said. Worse – February’s next, oh dear. Frankly, it’s already been a long month. It’s only Monday and I’m wondering how the hell I’m going to make it to gin o’clock on Friday? 06.11, and I manage to peel myself from under the cosy if ever so slightly sweaty duvet. It was a cold night, … Read More