Tuesday, August 21st, 2012
or an Italian, or a Turk or a North African. Not that I have anything at all against such chaps per se you understand…not to mention the fact that I’m very happy with my Swiss-German husband. It’s the heat. I just can’t be doing with it. My Northern English body doesn’t do well in the […]
Remind me never to marry a Greek…..
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Saturday, August 18th, 2012
A few months ago my son bought himself an X-Box games consul. To say I was against this would be to understate the issue, but he had vouchers and money from his birthday and made all sorts of promises about how little he would use it, how school grades wouldn’t suffer….you get the picture. I […]
Technology is all very well, but….or the diary of a very angry mother…
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Monday, August 13th, 2012
So the Olympics are over….I actually feel rather sad, not to mention a bit exhausted after the exhilaration of last night’s closing ceremony. I can’t imagine how wiped out I’d be if I’d actually been there! One thing I will say though is that if nothing else, in a time of economic doom and gloom […]
The Brits got it right…
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Saturday, August 4th, 2012
So. The kids are home and my quiet 3 1/2 days are over. I absolutely loved them. Loved, loved, loved! For once I managed to have time for me when I really needed time for me and I wallowed in it. I got a fair bit done – two quilt tops finished and the block […]
Reflecting
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Friday, July 27th, 2012
It’s been a strange week, this week. Cool and windy to start with and now insanely hot. We started out with a fair bit of sightseeing and have slowly but surely ground to a halt. A trip to the village to drink Latte Machiatto with the old men in a street cafe and buy Bistecca […]
A funny old week
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