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The real horrors of Halloween

October 16, 2019 By Ellen 2 Comments

It’s become traditional that I rant about Christmas starting too soon – which it does – but have you noticed how Hallowe’en is doing the same. There’s a house along the road with a pumpkin on the step already – almost a fortnight too early. How ripe is that going to be by the big […]

Filed Under: children, Halloween, horrors, Is it me?, Is it me? halloween, pumpkin

Going for a wee

May 4, 2017 By Ellen 1 Comment

Then off you go, it’s first on the left.  by Vrangtante Brun via Flickr OK. Better now?  It’s not that kind of wee I want to talk about. It’s the wee “we”, a pronoun – first person plural.  Clearly it’s a very useful little world. “We are a grandmother,” wouldn’t have the same whiff of […]

Filed Under: grammar, internet, Is it me?, other things I have learned, pronoun, toilet, we Tagged With: language, rant, The World, wee

Dear driver, this undertaking must stop

September 18, 2016 By Ellen 10 Comments

I passed my driving test more than half my life ago. 1988 if you must know. Second attempt, as it happens. All the best drivers pass second time, so they say. I could never commit the stopping distances to memory and, in any case, they were entirely meaningless as I can’t judge distances from numbers. […]

Filed Under: driving, Highway code, Is it me?, My Life, rant, undertaking Tagged With: driving, Highway code., on my mind, things I've learned, undertaking

Kids’ questions that don’t have an easy answer…

June 10, 2014 By Ellen Leave a Comment

“But why?” It’s a question that draws a deep sigh from even the most patient parent. Not me though. I’m not even a slightly, vaguely patient parent so by the time I we get to “But why?” I’ve graduated from sighing, through eye-rolling and muttering to swearing under my breath. Perhaps that’s why my children have been […]

Filed Under: family, heels., Is it me?, politics, Queen's speech, questions

Has anybody seen my monkey?

March 7, 2014 By Ellen 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: blogging, inspiration, Is it me?, monkey, muse

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