The evening news featured the funeral of Olaf Schmid, a bomb disposal expert who recently died in Afghanistan. His wife, with extra-ordinary composure, asked us to continue supporting our soldiers, even if we did not agree with the war. It’s such a small request.
Pictures: The Telegraph
Thought for a Thursday
4
Walkabout
The doctor informed me yesterday that I’ll need to talk to the consultant about another early delivery. This is not really a surprise given that a) it’s what happened last time (hence use of the word another) and b) I am 25 weeks pregnant and asking her for serious pain killers. My maternity leave started [...]
Thought for a Thursday
It’s late, I know. I’ve been having one of those weeks. I did have a ‘Thought’ planned but I got on a bus today at school time and one of the ’students’ was pushing a pushchair. Her pushchair. As I got on she and her uniform-clad friend were having a slanging match with the driver. [...]
The verdict
I’d say that Pumpkinfest ‘09 turned out to be quite a hit. The kids all looked lovely in their costumes, and the WH tolerated hers quite well too, and seemed keen on the ‘craft’ (you may notice that they all appear to be wearing bin bags. They are. I may have overlooked one thing on [...]
Thought for a Thursday
This was my original thought, though not very original at the moment (I’ll have you know I was ahead of the trend on owning this poster and have it in my downstairs loo.) It’s appropriate after a week of awful commuting experiences and poonami incidents from both PD and WH. The WH very thoughtfully rolled [...]
Thought for a Thursday
Once you realise we are all mad, life starts to make sense.
‘Nuff said!
Pumpkin Party
Violet Posy is having a Halloween ‘do’! I thought it only fair that I do the same….
PD with her trick-or-treat stash last year. And WH in witchy glory!
The Pocket Dictator is having a Halloween Party tomorrow, a whimsical notion caused by the arrival of some lovely new cake cutters (the former cake cutters having [...]
Wait a minute Mr Postman
Night Train(Commentary for a G.P.O. Film, July 1935) by W.H. Auden (1907 – 1973)
This is the Night Mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,The shop at the corner and the girl next door.
Pulling up Beattock, a [...]
Home shopping with benefits.
Last year I hosted a Tupperware party, which went down a storm , if only for all the wrong reasons. The Tupperware lady was, to be blunt, a complete nutter and I found myself kicking her out at 11.30pm because she just didn’t want to leave. That said the Tupperware shape-sorter (whose design doesn’t appear [...]
