Today, the Housemate and I had lunch with He Who Brings The Coffee and Kate (more lamb was beheld and consumed). After eating, I played Dingbats with Kate and TH, and it really was a laugh-till-you-cry experience. Kate shares my competitive streak, so our turns were quite intense and thoughtful. Enter TH. She received the [...]
Filed under: Dingbats, confusion, conversations, friends, humour, laughter, sheer silliness, tears, weird | 8 Comments »
Mother BonBon suggested: Daniel O’Donnell. Why?
This comment prompted an intensive training session for The Housemate, who, being from America, has led the blessed, carefree and happy existence of one who has never heard of Wee Daniel. Several anecdotes, two jokes, and one visit to YouTube later, she seemed to have a much clearer understanding of why it’s quite [...]
Filed under: Concerts, humour, sheer silliness, singing, songs | 11 Comments »
Sitting in church last night, waiting for a meeting to begin, McBouncy looked at me with the smuggest smirk you ever saw in your whole life.
“What?” I asked suspiciously.
“It’ll ruin your day,” she said with barely masked pleasure.
“What?” I repeated, becoming nervous and fearful.
She leaned across and stroked my hair, then said in an uncharacteristically [...]
Filed under: Fear, church, conversations, friends, old age, woe, worry | 5 Comments »
Ed suggested: Grab a book, any book. Open at random. List the first five words or phrases that are suitable for opinionating on. Opinionate on them.
The closest book to hand was The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams, quite simply the funniest, cleverest and yet silliest book ever written. I opened it [...]
Filed under: Glasgow, blogging, books, complaining, football, friends, laziness, mice, new york, wheel | 13 Comments »
I seem to have dislocated my left little finger.
I made this alarming discovery when I was nervously twiddling my fingers (I’ve never fully grasped the concept of only twiddling the thumbs) at my desk earlier on, having uncovered an unfortunate work-related error and fallen into a slight panic about the best way to deal with the consequences. [...]
Filed under: confusion, conversations, friends, pain, weird, work | 4 Comments »
Grannymar suggested: Stick a pin in your Blogroll. Open the one your pin has landed on, now take the fourth sentence from it and away you go!
So, I found myself on the highly entertaining page of Mr. Ed Hillan. I counted to the fourth sentence, and it said - wait for it - “Of course, [...]
Filed under: Ballymena, Glasgow, Sainsbury's, blogging, boss, pets, work | 5 Comments »
I was trying to decide whether ’tis better to blog about something just for the sake of blogging regularly, even when one has nothing of great interest about which to blog.
Then I skimmed through my archives for inspiration, and realised that’s what I’ve been doing most days anyway.
Anyway, the thing is, I’ve been very busy preparing [...]
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I’m a bit cross.
I’ve been told I’m a little too competitive when it comes to games. I really, really hate to lose. When Red and I were dating, I fell out with him for a whole day because he and my sister joined forces to conspire against me in a game of Monopoly. They refused to [...]
Filed under: boys, confusion, friends, monopoly, nerdiness, scrabble | 7 Comments »
I think she’s taken lessons from that Puss In Boots from Shrek.
Anyway, I have forgiven Kat because, tonight, she saved me from the Biggest Spider In The Whole Wide World, which was casually walking down the stairs as Dee and I sat at the kitchen table drinking coffee and complaining about being fat while eating [...]
Filed under: Fear, cat, spiders, worry | 2 Comments »
The Housemate has been here since Wednesday, and we’re having a blast. She is nursing me back to health - or rather, staying out of my way as I cough and sneeze and complain my way through the week. She’s a lovely girl, and I think we’re going to have fun living together.
Which is why [...]
Filed under: betrayal, cat, friends | 13 Comments »
