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 […]
Dear driver, this undertaking must stop
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. […]
The real horrors of Hallowe’en
Did you see any undead spirits around last night? No. Not even a timid spectre, a dribble of ectoplasm or a poltergeist’s bump. That’s either because you weren’t paying attention or because they simply don’t exist. Either way, you probably did see lots of small slightly bewildered children urged to ask strangers for sweets and […]
Kids’ questions that don’t have an easy answer…
“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 […]
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 […]