A Letter

Dear Left Leg,
Please give it a rest with the aggravating muscle twitch you’ve got going on at the moment. It’s been two days.
Yours sincerely,
Your Owner

Can you hear me now?

Question: why do my eyes move from side to side when I’m concentrating on the stereo effects of a song on my iPod? Just because I’ve got Moni Drasch yodelling in my right ear doesn’t mean I’ll see her when I look over to my right.
The sun was shining again today and, according to my [...]

Cabin fever

There was a smattering of snow last night. Wintry showers had been forecast, but I didn’t believe that they would mean anything at all white for us. When I ventured out into the cold this morning, there was just enough snow lying to betray the midnight visit of the local fox.
The tracks came over [...]

Thursday’s random facts #2

* The four days I spent in Salzburg in December 2004 were hitherto the best holiday I’ve had
* I liked Enid Blyton’s “Secret Seven” stories, but not the “Famous Five”
* If I was taller, I’d dress completely differently
* I have almost no recollection of Suzy from the first year of grammar school
* I don’t believe [...]

Fresh out of stones

I know you’re all dying to know how the x-ray went yesterday. All 4 of you.
Well, as with many of my hospital visits (except the one where I was carted off to London in an ambulance and they used all the different sirens they had) it involved a fair amount of hanging about in waiting [...]

I thought this was what friends were for?

Having cruelly and recklessly abandoned me in order to gallavant in Germany for a few days, Suzy has now re-graced the country with her presence. I was informed of her re-entry into Kentish airspace by a text message from her and was delighted to read that there was a “yummy Geschenk” in the offing. However, [...]

Almost, but not quite

I went for my first walk in a very long time today. I thought that I might finally be able to make it more than 2 yards beyond the end of the drive before the burning desire to pee descended upon me. I didn’t expect to do the whole of my usual route of about [...]