Edinburgh in August. Ugh! Crowds, idiots on unicycles and shouty antipodean jugglers. Why would you even bother? It’s a little bit like that if you’re trying to get somewhere around the centre of the city. Luckily for me, though, I don’t have to. It’s one of those viewpoints that speaks of world-weary got-the-t-shirt experience, rather […]
Tea time and the vortex of doom
Scoffing another fishfinger even though I’m stuffed. Seven and a half minutes and it’ll be The Archers and, before long it’s bed time. Yawn. Evening after evening. Nothing gets accomplished except bickering, cajoling and over eating. It’s not as if I don’t have high hopes. I dash home – usually extracting Boy Three from whichever […]
Five ways blogging is better than sex…
What has the solitary and sanitary act of blogging got to do with the intimate, messy business of sex? One you do by yourself in front of a computer and the other is an online diary. *Groan* Heavy-handed metaphor by banoootah_qtr via Flickr But actually the similarity exists and it’s to do with the affect […]
Blog Tour – Travelling Without Leaving Your Desk.
Has anybody seen my monkey?
You know. The one that always shoves ideas for things that must be blogged about into my head. The monkey with pretentious to be a muse. Or at least that’s what it claims as it rams another pointless, but hysterically funny, observation into my mind. Actually muse is quite a grand word for it. Imagine a […]