Year: 2014

Make mine a ninety nine

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Hi, The Longest Day has now passed, so the nights are drawing in 😉 I don’t do hot weather, or more accurately, I don’t do hot weather unless I can lay around, read and dip my feet in the pool. But, hey, you can’t have it all! More importantly, the pollen will start to subside, so my eyes will no longer feel like they’ve been rolled in itching powder when I get out of the car. 🙂 But, summer has its advantages: family days out, without the half an hour by the door, dressing up in Wellington boots/scarf/coat/thermals and getting warmer by the minute. Plus, summertime, there’s always ice cream on a hot day. Not good for the waistline, but […]

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Back…. from outer space

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Hi, Well, it’s been a while since my last post. How odd, I’m usually reasonably resolute about posting once a week. …last published on 23-May-2014… Oops! That’s nearly a month gone by. How time slips by eh? Well, the Jones Massive have been away and I don’t blog while on holiday. Not for any special reason other than I find it easier to type madly on a keyboard, rather than tapping like a drunk woodpecker against the tablet screen. Yes, I know you can use Swype style apps, but they don’t have lead to some interesting spolling mistooks. The Ever Lovely Mrs J has been saving up over the months and before Wee Man goes to big school, we thought […]

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“Hope is a good thing”

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Hi, Another bank holiday weekend? I don’t mind if I do! 🙂 Oh, and it’s half term too, so an extra day with the nippers, will be time well spent. How are things with you and yours? All good I trust! Disagreement I would normally say, I’m not one for politics and if this isn’t your thing, do skip on to the next bit. There’s something about shoes and looking fancy. 😉 [ If you decide to ignore Lynn’s rant, go to page 65. If you decide to hear what she’s got to say, go to page 9. If you prefer to attack the Ork in a denim skirt using your +3 mascara wand of fabulosity, to give a much […]

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Irish, farmer’s, oil and syrups

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Hi, This time’s Blogger Challenge is hair, which is, a complicated subject for trans people. Actually, no, nix that. Maybe it’s just my complicated relationship with hair. Maybe you’re fine with it. I shouldn’t speak on other people’s behalf. 🙂 Where was I? No, before the public apology…Oh, yes. Hair. Yeah. I used to have long hair when I was in my 20s. Full on, long straight hair that ran to the small of my back. I was – from an external view, at least – a rocker. But it wasn’t just about that. Having my hair long, it just felt right, somehow. I won’t say it made me feel girlie, that wouldn’t be accurate. But the idea of short […]

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The case of the ironic applause

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Hi, After last week’s post about music, I’ve been wandering YouTube’s dusty halls of albums of yesteryear. It’s a strange journey. One that takes you through disbelief (geez, did I actually buy this?), guilty pleasures to happy days and old favourites. A lot of the earlier stuff seemed to be rather shouty, but maybe that was the era. 🙂 There certainly didn’t seem to be much of a pattern, but then, I think that’s like the best things in life. Here’s to eclectic. Is this how middle age starts? You start looking back, rather than being in the now – whatever that is… ?Would it be wrong to say hashtag down-with-the-kidz?! 🙂 Frankly, if “the now” is X Factor and […]

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Organised noise

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Hi, Another long weekend? Don’t mind if I do. 🙂 This week it’s the birthday of the Ever Lovely Mrs Jones. I have, of course, been shopping in the terawatt range. Mind you, it is probably the closest I get to guilt free retail therapy. I mean, what’s not to like? Well, other than footing the bill. 🙂 You get to peruse the shops, find things your loved one will (will hopefully) enjoy and then get to wrap it all up for the big day. Mrs J’s birthday hint list included some summer clothes, so I was in my element this time around. 🙂 I missed the Blogger Challenge last time, so I’m making the effort not to today. The […]

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