At the end of November, I decided not to send Xmas cards. This was for a number of reasons: 1) I have 275 people on my list. When taking into account sheer costs of purchasing cards this amount to £23.37 2) Add to this some 55 UK 2nd class stamps (£28.60) and 32 overseas airmailed […]
Homework, Irony and the BBC…
MALE OFFSPRING: Arrrghhh! I can’t do this! I HATE this! I HATE it! ME: Oh for…..(stopping myself)…it’s just homework! The sooner you get it done – the better. MALE OFFSPRING: That’s alright for you to say! You said you never had nowt given you as homework when you were a kid. But I’m just 6! […]
Neanderthal Nativity
Back in the 70’s me and my big bro’ never participated in all of that nativity biblical re-enactment stuff. This could explain a lot of things for me and mine. Like the fact that as a small child I hated those new-fangled advent calendars that came with crappy choccies behind their little doors. The ones […]
The Old Fashioned Shopping Addict (or All Shook Up In’th Shops part 2)
Yesterday’s blog was all about how giddy I got after visiting a certain department store named Harveys of Halifax. I promised to tell you how I managed to overcome the lustful consumerist excesses that I was tempted into whilst visiting their hallowed floors. So read on… ———– I hopped back onto the road back home […]
Gym Bobbins
Over the years I’ve been a member of your UK swanky city-centre female-0nly places; your corporate-shop ‘love your boss – love your gym!’ deals. And plenty of East Mancunian Spit n’ Sawdust in-betweeners. So I think that I do know my moolah’s worth – and that I’m good at judging the overall social-aggregate, when it […]
Pushing Her Nibs
Why? Why would anyone in the world NOT want to put pen to paper? To reach out, to inform, to entertain or to explain themselves via the written word? I had never understood those who didn’t like to write. Until I bred a family of aliens. (Although they think that it is I, who happens […]
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