Yay! The chicks have it.

I don’t know why I am so ridiculously excited by the news, that Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daley will co-host Strictly Come Dancing next season. It probably has a lot to do with the fact it’s another small victory for womankind, as in, the first primetime Saturday night show exclusively hosted by women.   Or it […]

International No Diet Day

What’s that now?  We need a ‘national day’ to remind us to eat food?  Hhmmmmmm………  My response to this on Twitter was, “Every day is no diet day in my house.  Enjoy your food.”  Unless you are that special, weird Barbie woman who claims to subsist on air; we all need to eat to stay […]

Three, is not the magic number

  I beg to differ De La Soul……From now on, four is my lucky number!  Where’s my lotto slip? I couldn’t have even begun to imagine such a wonderful response when I started scribbling nonsense on the 2nd January.  I’m just a woman without children who says, ‘it’s ok to not have children!’  That’s all, ya […]

Thought for the day

Feliç Sant Jordi! Is it OK that we ‘borrowed’ these for a photo opportunity?  Now returned to their rightful owner next door.  It may be the only chance I get to show off with delivered flowers for Dia Sant Jordi. Sant Jordi is the equivalent of Valentine’s Day here.  Men receive a book and ladies […]

The Ten Commandments, Part II

So the mating ritual continued, with much posturing, fluffing of feathers and displaying, only I didn’t like his plumage too much (or the idea of being kept as a sex slave in a shoe box – commandment 6 – before my axey/birdy death).  And still a drink didn’t arrive. Second installment, lessons six – ten. Re: […]