Category Archives: Uncategorized

I am closing this blog. I will still be blogging, but not right now and not right here. I did write a long-winded post about how blogging has changed and I have changed and the ins and outs of why … Continue reading →

Yesterday, the mister and I celebrated seventeen years of marriage (let’s say that you can define ‘celebrate’ as went to Al Wahda Mall, had Thai Express then went to Magrudy’s to buy one book by Garrison Keillor and yet another … Continue reading →

In a sea of incomrehensibility, perhaps the most incomprehensible thing is that newspapers and the ABC are reporting that many of the fires may have been deliberately lit. Even at this distance, it’s hard to know what to do with … Continue reading →

Dear interwebs You know when people draw on photographs – like put a moustache on a photo of john howard, or a ring around a whale they saw while they were whale watching – how do they do that? Is … Continue reading →

This time last year, my grandfather’s teensy tiny family had to make the decision that he could no longer live alone. However hard it was for us emotionally, physically, spiritually (and it was, it really, really was), when I read … Continue reading →

So, yeah, I’m in Abu Dhabi where everyone except me has access to the interwebs. This life without the interwebs, it is killing me I tell you, killing me. That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Spent yesterday reading … Continue reading →

You would think that in a day which has included such phrases as ‘please don’t put that money in my ear’ and ‘no, I don’t want a turn with your glow-in-the-dark snot’ and ‘yes, I do so have superpowers I … Continue reading →

I love the internet so much that if I were less monogomous, I would marry it. Look what I found. I used to stand in the shadows of my bedroom and look across the hall to watch Dallas. My mum … Continue reading →

Partly because of this: and partly because of this: but mostly on account of the daily sight of this and this and this I am increasingly desperate for our bedroom (the master bedroom as it would be labelled if we … Continue reading →

I know you already know this, but the new 90210 is a bit shit. I was particularly excited about the promised Linda Gray moment, who, I think we can agree, is about the best thing to come out of the … Continue reading →