Ranty Friday — Tags

You know the ones.   Those stupid tags that shops attach to items. Either as a security measure or as an “aid to display”. I saw several tweets over Christmas from people who were asking how they could remove security tags from items they had bought as the shop had forgotten to do it.     The answer being “you can’t unless you go back”. Well they can’t be very

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Another reason why I hate football

I had gone to bed before the incident during the Chelsea / Swansea game on Wednesday night.  And it is a good job because if I had seen it I would have worked myself up into such a rage I wouldn’t have been able to sleep for a week. A 17 year old ball boy gets kicked because a premiership footballer thinks that the boy has held on to the

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The Gallery — Adventure

This week’s theme on The Gallery is Adventure. Hmm.   Not known for being adventurous this meant a rummage through the archives again.  And then it struck me.   The adventure that nearly killed us. Well that is slightly over dramatic but Mr B has his moments of being a bit of a daredevil.   And not wanting to be seen as a wuss I go along with it.

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Knicker perfume

That got your attention, didn’t it? And I kid you not, my friends.   Knicker perfume is here. I read on Get Lippie’s blog this week that Guerlain is about to launch “Eau de lingerie”. Now my first thought was “Why on earth would you want to smell like old pants?”

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The end of an era

That is what today is,  the end of an era. For four years I have been driving J to and from school on a trip that takes anything from 2.5 to 3 hours on a Monday morning.   He is a weekly boarder so needs to be picked up Saturday lunchtime and taken back on Sunday night or Monday morning.   For three years it was Sunday night but for

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SatCap — 19th January

I don’t normally take part in the Saturday Caption linky but I saw this pic this week and just had to put it on my blog   Though I suspect the only caption people will post will be “That is so true”  

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Ranty Friday — The Best This Year

It isn’t even the end of January yet and already I have heard the following: The movie event of the year and Surely the best goal we will see this year which was uttered on NEW YEAR’S DAY FOR GOD’S SAKE

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New Year New Me

Well not me, exactly but me as in this …. this here.   This little blog.     If you are reading this in your inbox you won’t notice any difference, but hop on over to the web page and woaaaaahhhhhhh it’s all change, baby. I decided awhile ago it was time for a re-vamp.   Primarily because I was bored with the old theme but also because it didn’t

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The Gallery — New

Ahhhh New Year New toys after Christmas New bodies as people set resolutions to get fit etc. A new year on the The Gallery. And if you are two of our teenagers it means shiny new cars.   C has a new one after an unfortunate altercation with a Parcel Force van driving into her just before Christmas.  A shiny Clio that is now the biggest thing she has ever

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Accident Prone or just stupid?

Listening to my favourite radio station this morning and they were having a phone in on “cartoon injuries”.   I called in with a story of my dad and how he had his nose broken as a teenager (bricks / “oi duck” / stand up / wallop) and then the more I thought about it the more I came up with that had involved me.   And then I pondered

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