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Hot town, summery in the city - 2017

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June 13, 2020

Tomato soup and gin

Or… 🍅 🍜 and 🍸.... I had the house to myself for a little over an hour last night!! T asked if we could go for a walk but I had just sat down with Netflix and the shoulder massage machine so I tol...


May 21, 2020

What’s new pussycat?

So, I’ve been pretty much at home since March, a week earlier than most folk just because I had a week off the week before lockdown. And what new, exciting hobbies have I taken up? How many degre...


May 18, 2020

Autobiographies

You know the saying that you should never meet your heroes; the reality will never live up to the image you have created. Right? Well, I think the same goes for autobiographies. I can only think ...


May 09, 2020

Hunger v shower

The problem is, on non running days I have the choice of getting up to shower before going downstairs… Or.... Just going down and getting breakfast. Breakfast is the most bestest meal of the da...


May 07, 2020

No reason

To write! Just writing cause I can!! Yesterday was an utter write off. Lila took four hours to do a one hour homework and then got 40% in the online test. Most of that time was spent rolling on t...


May 03, 2020

The covid-19 survey

I’ve seen another survey that excites me far more than this one but, I agree with charis (from whom I stole the questions), it will be an interesting one to look back on. THE BIG PICTURE What cou...


As the school holidays, such as they’ve blended with term time, are at an end and so the final challenge has been done. The theme was Ridiculous Sports. Our localish ridiculous sport is Cheese Ro...


April 15, 2020

Behemoth v the small

I am now the proud owner of a treadmill. It was a smooth pickup, albeit as far from us in this town as it’s possible to get without leaving! I knew it would be a close call to fit it in the car...


I’ve realised that I need to get moving in the morning to get the funk to fuck off so I got up at 7 and did the Cindy Crawford workout. I’m still trying to figure out how to get a treadmill tha...


April 10, 2020

Funk to funky

I woke up in an utter funk today, no desire to do anything. I planned to get breakfast, go back to bed and stay there. I was going to write here, say how thoroughly fucked off i was but I decide...


April 08, 2020

Home alone

No, not me. That’s just a fantasy for me 😂 My sister is home alone and has been for over two weeks. Her partner lives in south London while she lives in the suburbs to the west of London and the...


April 05, 2020

I smell of mushrooms

In an attempt to get food without leaving the house I was able to sign up for a local veg box, the kind that send a box full of fruit and veg each week but you can’t request anything specific. Th...


I just feel like L is being overloaded. No matter how much we do each day, more is set, more than she has done. I’m not working her stupidly hard. Each day is maths and English, some form of exer...


April 02, 2020

All my pain

I think I’m falling apart… I’m less than a year away from 50 and my body is letting me know. I have tooth ache (top right hand side wisdom tooth) It is from years of clenching my jaw through s...


Well, except R, though he will be working from home by tomorrow or Thursday. It’s been a lovely day; warm sun and the window open, the sounds of spring. I still have a sweater and a bobble hat o...


March 24, 2020

Oh go on then; survey

What is your favourite accent? I really don’t know. I definitely don’t like the one where we live, and L uses it with her friends!! I like when Spanish speakers speak English, it has a lovely lil...


WHERE: I’m in bed having a very rare lie in. On my lap is Oreo, the black cat. She gets up periodically to headbutt me, just to remind me that she’s there and hasn’t been fed yet but it’s Saturda...


January 19, 2020

Amused

My last entry was public and the title referred, if you remember, to my state of being dressed.... Well, very quickly, I received a note from someone who had read the title but not the entry. Th...


It was pointed out to me that I haven’t done a reality check in the bath recently. I had to admit that I’ve been catching up on Netflix in the bath recently, and a new series of Grace and Frankie...


December 19, 2019

De-childminding steps...

I am done for two weeks and, as with last time I childminded, the toys were beginning to take over! I had a good tidy up this aft (it is now less than an hour since I finished work and I’m sittin...


December 07, 2019

Christmas prep...

I’m in the bedroom with the door closed and I’ve told everyone to stay out 😂 To be fair I have actually been finishing off the advent calendar but that was done before I scarffed the left over ch...


September 08, 2019

Tempting fate...

I’ve clicked on the new entry tab so someone is bound to need me!! I am that ‘satisfactory’ tired. I don’t even know if that makes sense! Our garden is not huge and, when T was little, I planted ...


WHERE: I am in the bath - well, I haven’t done this is like, forEVAH WEARING: 4 ocean bracelet, save the turtles bracelet, a wooden bread bracelet that T bought me for mothers day many years ago...


August 12, 2019

Surveyage

White or red wine? I’m not a wine lover unless my dad has bought it - he buys good wine and then I really don’t mind which as they’re all good. Who was the last person you hugged? I may or may no...


July 24, 2019

Police

I’ve been calling the police far too often recently. And it’s only when I take a different route to usual. Well, it’s only been twice… A couple or three months ago I was stomping to the shop. Th...


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Well, more of a town than a city …