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 [...]

7 Days: Day 3 – Nuts to the postman

The gift I wanted to get Debbie for Christmas is best priced across the other side of the Atlantic and so I enlisted help from Bethany to place the order and then I’d pay her back (and we know how easy that was). Being a generous soul, Bethany enclosed a little something for me in [...]

Hush money

I needed to send Bethany this month’s hush money and so logged into Paypal to work out from previous transactions how much to add to the amount to cover the fee. Because you know what Bethany’s like – if I didn’t do that, she’d probably fly into a wild rage … while also blogging, watching [...]

Shiny new

I’ve been changing Dreamdust’s look this weekend, gradually changing a Wordpress template to suit my tastes and gradually discovering all the bits of CSS that had been weirdly zeroed, so as to interfere with other bits of CSS when you weren’t expecting it. A couple of chocolate and ginger biscuits helped along the way and [...]

Breaking the internet meme by meme

So Thursday did this meme and tagged me for it. And I read the rules and was like, well, they’re dumb, ’cause everyone has to change a question AND add a question and if this meme makes it another week around the net, it’s going to be 300 questions long. So I checked the blog [...]

Considering myself tagged

Three TV shows/movies I watch regularly:
* Damages is coming back on Sunday, so I’ve programmed the PVR to record it – in case I either forget, or get lost and need to rewind and see just how many times someone has been betrayed and/or lied to.
* The West Wing is usually on an endless loop [...]

Dear SexyGir|

I’m delighted to hear that you loved both my profile and my pics. Though, truth be told, you’ve seen neither, have you? You are not emailing me from your friends house. You are emailing me from your friend’s house. Yes, I see you’ve provided me with your own email address so that I can get to know you [...]