And now he’s 45 and 2 months

I have a blog folder sitting on my desktop, where I keep notes of ideas for blog entries, as well as all the photos I have yet to upload and/or write about. In some ways it’s a delightful way of keeping everything tidy and ensuring I don’t forget any magical blogging epiphanies (I still like [...]

EEG

I went up to London for an EEG yesterday. To a hospital, you understand, it wasn’t done in the middle of Trafalgar Square or anything. Just as well really, because an EEG involves the patient’s head being measured, drawn on and covered with little electrodes, stuck on with pale green conductive paste and that kind [...]

Cold-caller

The phone rings. I answer:
“Hello?”
“Can I speak to your manager?”
“To whom?”
“Your manager.”
“I’m the only one here, so how can I help?”
“What?”
“I’m the only one here, how can I help?”
“Can I speak to the owner?”
“I’m the only one here on this line. Can I take a message?”
“Can I speak to the manager?”
“No, sorry.”
I hang up.
A few [...]

Last day in Bratislava

One of the reasons I blog (apart from the fame and glory) is to help me remember what I’ve done. Trouble is, from time to time a combination of laziness and other things in life takes over and by the time I get round to doing the blogging, I’ve already forgotten.
I’ve now uploaded the photos [...]

Cold toes

It’s meant to be a post about my garden, but all I can think about at the moment is how cold my toes are. They are cold. Autumn is definitely here now and when I go outside to visit my pumpkins the cold air clings to my clothes and my breath freezes in the air [...]

Mumpkin puffins

Susan Reimer’s My pumpkin muffins are very yummy indeed and are in fact the sole reason I grow pumpkins from time to time. And am I wondering if I can fit a vine … or two … on my patch again next year? Why yes, yes I am.
I’m not a particularly fast baker, preferring to [...]

Russ was here. But don’t tell anyone.

It should be safe to write this, as my aunt and uncle are on safari in Africa at the moment and probably not checking in on Dreamdust. My cousin, Russ, came down to visit last week in order to get a lesson on his new toy: a Nikon D80. The D80 that his parents don’t [...]