Been a crazy ass morning running around like a headless chicken doing errands and, of course, I had to go see the nurse this morning for more blood tests.
And I’m only now sitting down to my fav tea in my fav mug.
Musings
It’s a gloriously sunny day out there today. Problem is … it’s also minus 15 degrees.
It’s snowing … again … get use to it … I’m going to be saying this a lot … it’s winter!
I turned the heating down earlier, I may have made a grave error in judgement.
So. Damn. Funny!
We’re enjoying one of those weird wintery days were despite the fact the sun is shining and the clouds are high and light, it’s snowing. It happens when the temperature at a certain level turns any moisture in the air into snowflakes.
Just enough to dust the grass but not heavy enough to coat the trees, yet!
It's That Time of Year!
Thursday, November 27, 2025 • 2 min read
Are you a big spender at Christmas or, like me, are you a frugal re-user of wrapping paper, bows and ribbon, and a repurposer of unwanted gifts? I take great delight in salvaging Christmas paper, gift bags, bow and ribbons, and why not? If they are still useable and in good nick, I will set them aside and if deemed useable again, will keep them. I’ve even got the OH doing this.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 →
Sadly, all too true …
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 →
Well, we went from minus five on Monday and wintery weather to an almost balmy plus 4 and rain here, this morning.
Rain now for the rest of the week right on through till Monday, they say. Bah humbug!
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Time
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 • 1 min read
If you want to understand time — which is how you come to befriend life — turn to stone. Climb a mountain and listen to the conversation between eons encoded in each stripe of rock. Walk a beach and comb your fingers through the golden dust that was once a mountain. Pick up a perfect oval pebble and feel its mute assurance that time can grind down even the heaviest boulder, and smooth even the sharpest edge.
What is it with shopping regulations that says you cannot buy a perfectly useable stick of dynamite on a Sunday to blow up your ailing/aging washing machine that takes this moment in time to suddenly spew some gunk and turn your nearly brand new crisp white bedding set into a murder scene, as if a mouse got drowned and mangled in the tub!
It’s sacrilege, that’s what it is, sacrilege I tell you.
Does anyone know a plumber?
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To quote a line from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest …
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 →
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 →
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.” — Jeanette Winterson, author of The Passion
Yep, pretty much spot on!
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 →
Why, yes, this did make it to my Christmas list. I eat a lot of noddles.
My sister in law called last night talking Christmas and, of course, presents. Not ten minutes later, I got a text from my nephew’s girlfriend (the sensible organised one in that pairing) also talking presents, asking what did I want this year?
So, of course, 8 year old Alex is now sat at the computer, a million windows open, surfing the entire world wide web looking for stuff to add to an ever growing list of things I would love (price no object) that I’m going to share with them all.
Here, you asked, and I responded.
What? I can’t have a dirt bike at my age? Driver’s licenses? I’ll break my neck?
Can I at least have the squishy bunny night light for my bedside table?
Pretty please?
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Rocking the 60s
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 • 2 min read
Way back when, and I’m talking the mid-60s in Singapore, when my sister, who was ten years older than me, worked part time for an Army liaison officer. She was part of a team who organised rock bands tours, and, as a result, I got to meet with some of the biggest bands of the era. This included, at the time, over a 3 year period I remember, bands such as The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds (inc.