Now, I think I’m a pretty reasonable woman, I like to go out with my friends, I’m sociable and fun, I like to meet and chat to people, have a drink and a dance. I’m interested in interesting people. But there really is an art to the chat-up, a certain etiquette if you will, that one should […]
I hope that: the cute Easter bunny (from the hare, ancient symbol of fertility. Ancient as in, like really ancient, say maybe even more than 2014 years ancient). came and laid lots of eggs in your house (see above AND, to be honest, just plain weird science) – ooh!! Might be my Sunday afternoon movie. […]
you might find yourself on a sunny, Sunday afternoon, post morning workout, full of the heady mix of endorphine and caffeine buzz, roast chicken dinner and glass of red wine haziness, an element of twitchy boredom and a too-bloody-handy pair of sharp scissors, (which just so happen to be excellent for cutting hair); fighting the overwhelming urge to radically change […]
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, Mum’s are amazing (that’s why I’m not one. I’m magic, but I’m not amazing). And so it’s only fitting that there should be a day that celebrates these wonderful, mystical creatures who do forty thousand jobs a day and keep it together (mostly). The card I […]
Sometimes it’s not easy this writing lark……. and when the wind’s been sucked out of your sails, it’s really difficult to dredge the motivation or find your funny. What’s the secret that successful writer’s possess? Just write something, anything and put it out there? Have a big, rolling wilderness with tumbleweeds, where your blog used to be? […]
Spring is coming, and though absolutely entirely fabulous news, (beach at Easter, don’t mind if I do), it also brings with it the misery of hayfever. “An allergy to hay, miserable? Do you me a favour“, I hear you cry in unison. But it is true. The first three or four weeks of Spring are […]
You have to be possessing of great big, fat coj*nes to email ‘happy birthday’ as a warmer to the following conversation: FP (Flaccid p*nis from two years ago, of the ‘About those p*nises’ post fame): Xxxxxx cxxxxxxx Felicidades AP (me): Gracias FP: Hi, how are you? I am in U………… missing you AP: Are you sure?!? […]
from one of my best friends, so it’s safe to say, she knows me well enough to send it and know that: a) it’s absolutely representative of times we’ve shared, so 100% justified b) that I wouldn’t be offended (and c) that at some point, I have actually looked exactly like the drunken whore on the right, all curly […]
Sometimes you start your Monday by listening to Elbow’s ‘One Day Like This’, the sun is shining, it’s warm and you get a nice surprise. Then you walk around loving life right in it’s face, stupidly grinning at everyone, struggling to resist the urge to skip and click heels together intermittently, as if in a film version of your own life, […]
“Write something funny.” “No, I shan’t.” “Write something funny.” “No, I shan’t.” “Write something funny.” “No, I shan’t.” “Write something funny.” “No, I shan’t.” Angel and devil on my shoulders this week.
The Secret Diary of Anne Pank 