Month: November 2024

Hi, Gah, I’ve got brainfizz and, if you’ll forgive me, I’m just going to have to type stuff into the whitespace until I break the deadlock and actually write something. I think in truth – and other than my current inability to focus – is that I feel I don’t have a lot of stuff to report. I won’t be opening the folder marked Thought exercise: does any of this matter? because that way madness lies…. and not the skanktastic musical act either 😉 Wakey wakey, Lynn It was Chams last night and a visit with friends always lifts my spirits. I was late setting off because I’d been overdoing it in the week. Sometimes, I think I need to […]

Hi, Can we start with “brr, it’s a bit nippy?” 🙂 Or as we’d say in Nottingham “it’s a bit code“. That’s not a typo, BTW. For some quirk of accent, we like to say it – code not ‘kold‘ – like that round here. See also “it’s a bit wharm”. I don’t think it’s to confuse folk new to the area. Although as old friend at Chams once asked if her work colleagues, “It’s code for what?” 🙂 Very reasonable question, IMO. I mean someone had to explain the local word ‘fuddle’ to me years back. Dressing for it Being a right mesh* bogger, the snow and frost mean I’ve been layering up. Perhaps one advantage of being genderfluid, […]