Thumbs down

On the left, one of the levers on my £100 new office chair broke my thumb nail. As evidenced on the right though, I have no need to pay such sums for injury. Earlier in the day the front door that came free with my parents smashed my thumb, bending the nail back far too [...]

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Jazz Hands Jr.

The second peanut made an appearance as soon as I shamed it on the electric internet. It’s like I Maytagged it or something. Though the first plant is growing so fast that I suppose that there’s always the possibility it’s going to grow teeth and eat its neighbour. And then me.

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Jazz hands!

One monkey nut continues apace. The other, not so much. I guess we’ll call that one compost.

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Bowling à la Suzy

Approach 1: Hold the ball high above your head, putting the fear of God into those behind you, before throwing it down the lane with great venom. The ball should make a satisfying, loud SMACK as it hits the floor with force, so as to underscore your great might. Approach 2: At the urging of [...]

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Nuts, monkey and otherwise

One of the peanuts I planted has now germinated, pinging above the soil, split nut and all. I spent the first day or two trying to cover it up again with the compost, before finally confirming that it was ok, it was meant to do that. Like all patient gardeners, I’ve also dug about in [...]

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Brownies on a winter’s day

For my last birthday, the one where I became I-don’t-always-remember-how-old, Lauren gave me The Hummingbird Bakery recipe book. Suzy came to tea last night and so I thought it was about time I delved into the fattening pages of the book and made brownies for our dessert. As they’re somewhat too squodgy to put in [...]

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Another snow day

Just as I was bemoaning the lack of anything blogworthy and the fact I’d not yet written anything in the new year, another pile of snow came to town. Not as much as before, but enough to keep Mum off school and my head turned to the window, seriously impeding any progress I may have [...]

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