Is there any better way to spend a Friday afternoon?

Happy Birthday Blog. (And happy birthday Claudette when you read this)

In Germany it’s common to take all your fittings and fixtures with you when you move house. From the kitchen cupboards to the oven, from the showerhead to the toilet roll holder, from the curtain rails to the lightbulbs. They leave nothing but the barest of bare bones. In some extreme cases they even take […]

At 11pm I sat on my sofa, phone in hand, ready to write my post for the day. At 3am (ish) I woke up on my sofa, phone in lap, still postless. *** Ho-hum. Good night people.

I can only claim half the title credits… the other half goes to the incredible computer guy at work.. *** “I need a new toner cartridge for the printer” “Ok, that’s fine, but you’ll have to order one yourself..” “???” “Uh, yeah, since they implemented the new system, I’m no longer responsible..” “Oh. So how […]

Men are funny creatures. This afternoon I stood at the service desk with a trolley load of wood panels, waiting for someone to get back from their break and cut them to size. A man dressed in a smart shirt and shiny shoes stopped his trolley neatly behind mine, and started heaving a packet of […]

„When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.“ – Lolly Daskal

All cages, even the golden ones, have doors for a reason. The trick is finding out how to open them. (And whether or not you want to) 

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Sometimes the world is so grey and bleugh, that I don’t care about going to work.  Sometimes it looks like this: ​ ​ ​and I’d rather find somewhere to sit and bask in the sunshine…

How come sometimes it’s so easy to talk through the night, and sometimes so hard to find any words at all?

It’s a long one, folks – I hope you have good biscuits.. *** “Ah! You’re here to pick P up. Come in!” I have no idea whether the receptionist phoned ahead or whether it was pure good timing that there wasn’t a queue and that the carer who met me at the gate knew who […]