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I hate technology. I really, really, really really hate technology. I have a 3000-word semi-catch-up post for you . . . which I can’t copy and paste into the blog admin window because the fancy...
View ArticleLife in the Real World Take Me Awaaaaaaaaay
Soooo, everyone remember my Niagara Falls leak? The water company—we will call them Sludge & Ganglion—sent me a letter last November, while I was a trifle preoccupied with my dying husband,...
View ArticleSomething to hurrah about in a cautious, low-key, not-attracting-fate sort of...
I had the best working morning today—you know, story-words on computer screen type working morning—that I’ve had in yonks.* So I thought I’d write a blog post to celebrate. A lot of my long silences...
View ArticleEveryday Wickedness
Or, Some Things Don’t Change I blew off handbells today. Shock. Horror. But our usual Friday afternoon handbell madness is occasionally held in Morocco, because one of our regulars lives there, and...
View ArticleLife is like that*
It started raining in the five minutes between bringing hellhounds in, taking my raincoat off because it’s HOT and it’s not raining, and furthermore it’s not SUPPOSED to rain, this slender pause...
View ArticleConundrum
Here’s a question for you: if you have become a sort of vegan-paleo-alkaline-raw-foodie person, what the jolly doodah do you eat coming off a savage bout of stomach flu? And I mean savage. It only...
View ArticleDomestic Dramas
The hellterror broke my favourite bowl today. Her head is on a stake in the back garden. Nearly. Actually I’m thinking about tying the stake to the railing at the front of the cottage. If Damien,...
View ArticleLife as a 21st century semivegan*
[This should have gone up last night, of course. This may be the New System. Time is merely a concept, not a reality, right? But I’ve been talking to other people in the area and I Am Not Alone....
View ArticleTragedy
[This was supposed to go up last night, of course. Technology is so not my friend. And today has been complex.] Wolfgang died.* Waaaaaaaaaaaah. And it’s Saturday night, I can’t ring the garage till...
View ArticleReally bad timing. Really, really, really bad timing
I’m supposed to be at a concert. Right now.* It’s snowing. It was Mitsuko Uchida. Possibly my favourite living pianist.** AND THIS IS NOW THE SECOND TIME I’VE HAD TO BAIL ON A BOUGHT-AND-PAID-FOR...
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