I’m in trouble, love. I’ve managed to lose Milo the German Shepherd. It might not sound like such a big deal but my landlord is a very rigid human being and the one thing that just about makes him kick the bucket anger wise is when I am careless. The trouble therefore is that I [...]

I cooked dinner for the almost Meirings at my house last night. Engaged couples are so easy to talk to and wine helps for those ‘oh my word I’m going to drown them they are so cute and happy’ moments. Needless to say I was quite unsteady by the end of the evening. The problem [...]

My landpeople are away for the week. I think they are lovely but the quiet is blissful. D goes to bed with the minimum fuss and I am free to mangle my toes on the gorgeous dark tiled steps.* I’m hopping around in what I can assure you is not an alluring manner. I am [...]

I feel awesome today. I have my /bounce back :).
It has quite a lot to do with the amount of caffeine and sugar I have in. I think I have finally cracked the formula for the exact of amount of the above stimulants I need to surf the edge of sleepless despair. Cowabunga baby.
It might [...]

This has been a particularly bad week for sleep. I am really starting to consider sleeping tablets. D is sleeping through* so it should be worth trying. It is its own kind of drug though. I would class insomnia as a hallucinogenic. No cool dancing 10cm pygmies or anything (those were fun) just the world [...]

I cooked for the 8.75 Smiths last night. I have never seen kids eat with such gusto. I just made cottage pie with a lame salad*. Granted the cottage pie is gorgeous** but that rail thin 12 year old girl ate a plate that would make a 1.98m guy steel himself and contemplate a really [...]

It is a damn inconvenience not to be able to speak to you. Why did you have to end up being the one person to whom I tell everything? One little hara-kiri declaration and wham…radio silence. I am going to have the jaw muscles of a beaver with all this grinding.
Either just before or just [...]

I didn’t write to you yesterday. I wish there was some heart achingly lovely reason why not but all I have to offer is that I just didn’t want to. I saw you on Sunday and knew I would see you again last night and writing to the you to whom this is addressed but [...]

I have not slept decently (i.e. more than 3 hours consecutively and more than 4 hours in total per night) this past week so please forgive the grammatically /cringe quality of today’s ygm.
Last night was awesome for 2 reasons: 1. I made a rocking bastilla* and fudge filled vanilla muffins** and V&P came for coffee. [...]

Today I have 2 meetings, one with the napalmed-evolution-proposal woman who wants “her website partners” to have an “exploratory” meeting. She makes me want to grind my teeth until I choke on the fine calcium grit. Basically I have to meet with the people who set up their website. I proposed to completely regenerate the [...]