Year: 2008

Hey y’all, This week’s been rather busy. Consultants, conference calls and urgent meetings to resolve various issues. Today I stopped for a late lunch. Sometimes you just gotta step back and take stock, let your mind settle and give your brain time to cool off. As I looked out of the window and out towards the greenery outside – well, as much as there can be on a cold winter’s day (hence the song lyric) – and I was reminded of my late Grandad (a keen gardener). No, this isn’t a death thing, if your mind’s jumping that way. Moreover I was reminded what my Grandad did for a living when he was my age… and how it’s pretty much […]

I have a favour to ask of you. One from you good people out there. The ones who are listening right now. It’s not for me. It’s for a friend. All I ask is this simple thing: think of a woman in a hippy skirt and wish her well. That’s all you need to do. No money, no voting, no direct action: just a kind thought. Someone out there (no names) needs a little luck to come her way. Now normally, I’m among the cynics and my top lip would be heading upwards in cod Billy Idol kinda way. Not today though, not today. Y’see jaded b/tch that I am, I would like to believe, I really would. But enough […]

Hiya, Draw back the curtains, take ‘No Alarms’* off repeat and stick on a smile. The telly programme title is correct: five minutes in heels is heaven. A night out with the girls (well, you know what I mean), a good chat and the spiritual high of passing old things on have worked wonders on my mental state. The balance has been restored and I feel calm and relaxed. There was even a spot of dancing which added to the whole evening. [ * By strange coincidence I was walking through Leicester the other week and the shopping centre’s in-house music system was playing Radiohead’s No Alarms. It’s a great track (IMO) although not one that would make me thing […]

Hi there, I think I’m going to have to start keeping a notepad for blogging ideas. Today I had a couple of thoughts about what to write about, but the journey home and the minutiae of office work has let those flighty thoughts flutter back to the Muse. Bugger. So what’s been going on? Not exactly rock & roll (unless Chuck Berry helps you), but we’ve had a massive chuck out at home. Early spring cleaning. The house looks better for it as like most folk, we tend to accumulate ‘stuff’. Clothes you don’t wear, books / CDs / DVDs you don’t like anymore and ‘stuff’. I don’t know about you, but I’m terrible. It’s not that I can’t bear […]

Hey there, How’s tricks? Stops the ache? It’s a bit of a dramatic title for a blog post, but some days…? Ack, I don’t know 🙂 I’m feeling pretty chuffed at the mo and I think it’s to do with going out. No, not going down the pub or taking a wander around the shops – but ‘out’ out. It’s been a while since I’ve been to visit the Ladies at NottsChams. It is over a month – may be even six weeks – since I’ve dressed (what with family and work commitments). Anyhoo, it’s going to be a bit longer before I get ‘meh skit on’ (as some may say), but… and this is the thing I cannot explain, […]

Hey there, Have you recovered from Christmas and the New Year’s celebrations yet? 🙂 So what’s been going on; other than a return to work that is? Still work. It pays for the nice things in life doesn’t it. The turning of the year somehow reminds me of that new exercise book feeling I’d get at school. You know, the tired but well loved book would be completed and would be assigned to history. The new one’s first page was pristine: clean and empty for your scrawling. Did you take special care on this first page? Funny, but I did although that resolve never lasted to the third page. Unusually, school is on my mind at the moment. The Xmas holidays are over and term starts once again. In our […]