… Somehow at 5.30am this morning this seemed funny.
Random, as it suggests!
Musings
Henley Literary Festival
You have probably guessed by now that I love books. And reading. Spending hours in book shops. Listening to authors talk about their books. And, well, just generally anything vaguely book related. Last year I got wind of the fact that there was a Literary Festival just up the road in Henley. Emma Freud was going to be interviewing Sarah Brown and via Twitter Emma said that I should come
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Ranty Friday — The Rolling Stones
So dear reader, tickets have gone on sale this morning for the next Rolling Stones tour. Well I say “tour” but it is actually just two dates. HOw can that be a tour? And half of them didn’t even know about this until last week. Or maybe they did but are just too senile to remember. The “Fifty and Counting” tour. You might think that the fifty in
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The Gallery — Old
I actually changed my mind about the photo for this post at the last minute. Something old is this week’s theme on the Gallery. It was going to be my teddy Stanley but then I thought of the oldest and most splendid thing in our family (and by thing I don’t mean family member!) A thing that was born in 1957, in Holland I believe. It now lives
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Twenty five years ago today
Now generally speaking I am not very good at remembering specific days in the past. In fact I am rubbish at it. I have no recollection of school. In fact I can’t remember what I was doing 20 minutes ago. What was I doing 20 minutes ago? But I know what I was doing on October 16th 1987. I can even see myself doing it. I was standing in
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Why we need more mums to appear in photos
I read this really thought provoking article in the Huffington Post this week: Alison Tate’s declaration that mum stays in the picture. Basically (ie if you are too lazy busy to click on the link and read it for yourself) Alison debates the lack of mums in photos these days. Suggesting us mums are effectively erasing ourselves from our children’s childhood when they look back through photos in years
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No nuns were hurt in the making of this post
Sometimes I see things that make me think “the world has gone barking mad” Yesterday it was this: Sometimes we add joke ingredients to our drink labels (rubber ducks,tennis rackets etc), but not everyone gets the joke twitter.com/innocentdrinks… — innocent drinks (@innocentdrinks) October 10, 2012 Trading Standards ACTUALLY wrote to Innocent Smoothies about the lack of nuns in their smoothies. Somebody actually spent actual time and actual money
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The Gallery — Yellow
Yellow What could I photograph to depict yellow, then? Sunshine. Looks at rain and grey sky Fields of rape seed. Looks at rain and grey sky Buttercups. Looks at rain and grey sky Stunning sun flowers. Looks at rain and grey sky And then it hit me. What have we all been talking about all year? In a “love it” or “hate it” kind of way? What has taken
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Choccywoccydoodah have a secret room
Did you know that Choccywoccydoodah have a secret room? The best events I have been invited to since blogging have both involved this amazing chocolate shop. I cannot tell you how thrilled I was to be invited to the launch of their Secret Room above the newly opened London shop. But knowing my love of chocolate you can probably guess how loudly I screamed.
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My Animals and Other Family — Clare Balding
As soon as Henley Literary Festival sent an email saying they had managed to pin down Clare Balding to speak for an hour I snapped up four tickets. Had no idea if we were free that afternoon or who would come with us but knew I had to have tickets. The same with Clare’s book. As soon as it came out I knew I wanted to read it,
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The Tent, the Bucket and Me — October 2012
This is October’s book club choice, please join in by reading it, commenting below or writing your own review and joining the linky: For the Seventies child, summer holidays didn’t mean the joy of CentreParcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home and a bucket for the necessities, we
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The Gallery — Fitness
Right, where to start with this one then. I am known for my physique. Well actually that is not true. I am. But not for my connection to fitness. To be fair I have started cycling recently, for the first time in 25 odd years. But you don’t want to see a picture of a bike. That is boring. Or the dog who I walk twice a