kipper slapping

Today the inevitable happened: a colleague found my blog on google. I am not of course refering to any of my close work friends such as Abbi (a very talented blogger but also a colleague) but rather someone who knows me pretty much as...

Stripping

I am possibly the world’s most inept wallpaper stripper. The early part of the weekend just gone saw me dangling from a ladder, wallpaper steamer in one hand, scraper in my teeth. Some how I managed to get wall paper stuck to my forehead as a kind lady in the...

Life is like a flat pack

It occurred to me, given the number I have to assemble, that life bears more than a passing resemblance to a flat pack: The instructions are often absent or have no relation to what you are trying to do. You’re never able to do it entirely on your own. You spend...

Update

There has, I regret to report, not been any stories of an amusing variety despite a promising start to a recent luncheon with my sister, S, where I managed to get lost in Cardiff even though I spent a large amount of my late teens driving round the city. If you feel...

Things not to do:

1. Feed me copious amounts of E numbers – it’s not pretty and it’s not clever 2. Challenge me to read all 7 of a certain series of books in one weekend – I will do it and then on finishing will be completely unitelligible for the next 36 hours...