On muscle ache and stupidity
They say you can’t cure stupid.
You can’t really cure muscle ache either
DB
On failure and other misfortunes
(Warning: contains a small amount of blood and a great deal of frustration) *** On Sunday I admitted failure. I had failed to finish the book in time to send it to the printers before leaving to catch the plane, despite staying up all night to work on it. I was quite miffed (ok, a […]
On the first weekend of Advent…
…thou shalt decorate thy house. It doesn’t matter what else needs doing, all will be dropped, it’s time for decorations. Do not miss out any opportunity to put lights up No space is too out of the way for a statue or two…
On not talking about Christmas
It’s the 25th of November. That makes it exactly a month until Christmas. I am ignoring that, and all other Christmas related things. Between now and then, I have: 4 exams to revise for a book to finish compiling and find pictures for and format and send off in time for printing 3 aquariums to […]
On autumn lakes
DB went out with the dog the other day and sent me this picture 🙂
On writing it out
– or “don’t write back in anger” (Written yesterday; I fell asleep in the middle if the last sentence..) Yesterday (Monday) I was mad at a situation involving several people and several opinions. Today (Tuesday), I wrote them all an email. It took me a good part of the morning to get it into something […]
On yoga as an unusual form of torture
One I wrote a long time ago (mid summer, sometime) and never got round to sending.. *** Until recently I’ve always been a bit, I don’t know, snotty about yoga. I first heard about it 15 years or so ago when it was propagated as ‘not a good thing’ by the church youth group. I […]
On German invitations
If you ever happen to find yourself invited to a German party, remember to turn up at least half an hour before the time on the invite. It doesn’t matter what kind of event it is. Birthday, Barbecue, Leaving do. In the last couple of weeks, I have been late to 3 different “occasions” despite […]
On setting alarm clocks
DB: what time do you want to get up tomorrow? Me: thinks mid-afternoon would be nice. Around 8? DB, half an hour later: I’ve set the alarm for 7. You can sleep in the car.
On sleeping in the doghouse
The radio comes on loudly, waking us up the way it does every morning. DB sits up and looks across at the dog (C) we’re looking after, who’s sleeping on the floor next to his side of the bed. DB: (excited) Good morning C! It’s time to get up! Yup yup yup! It really is! […]
On playing Chinese whispers
Some families play scrabble. Some families are less interested in written words and so choose to play Chinese whispers instead. *** DB came home from work really upset the other day. Apparently his father had told him that his (DB’s) mother had said his uncle (C) was in hospital and that his aunt (H) didn’t […]
On catfish and other sites
DB says we can’t have a cat. He didn’t say anything about catfish. I now have 18 – and counting 🙂 *** On the grounds that I am liable to become boring for most readers who don’t like fish, I’m going to put future posts about fish onto their own site. Here are some pictures […]
On some of the dangers involved in being a baby Trauermantelsalmler
We have babies! Fish babies! 😉 (Can you tell I’m excited yet?) At least 3 of them! (From approximately 500 eggs, according to the fish website I consulted) Totally unexpected too… *** On Tuesday I came back from England. I was there for a week and had been travelling in Germany for a few days […]
On suspicious plastic bags
It was heavy for its size, and squidgy, in a crunchy sort of way, like a bag of damp sand..
On sight-snoring
I am on the road again. Or more rather on the tracks. Since I’m travelling almost entirely by train. Whatever. It’s a 7 1/2 hour journey from where I live to where I have to be at 7pm. Instead of leaving at midday and making a usual late appearance, I chose an early train so […]