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Posted Mar 6, 2006
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I've forgotten how to work!
Posted Oct 14, 2005
Dear friends, as some of you must know as you were so good as to congratualte me effusively, I am gainfully emplyed again for the first time time in *quickly counts on fingers* a year and a half (that long? Blimey). And the thing is, I think I may have forgotten how to do 'work'. Oh, not working as in productive stuff. I can sit and write and make myself endless cups of coffee like the best of them. However, my usual 'working on novel' outfit consists of knickers, teeshirt and flip-flops, with the additions of track-suit bottoms, ghastly pilled fleece and possibly woolly socks in colder weather (I do of course get properly dressed to go to the supermarket. I am not as yet thoroughly indoctrinated into the role of local eccentric). And when I want to stop work, I stop. And have lunch at anywhere between 11 am and 3 pm. And have a mid-afternoon bath. And read novels for an hour or so. And sit on the carpet to cut my toenails. And start drawing lace charts. And spread out all my knitting and dither over what project I want to do. And play 'Sims' while making socks. And listen to Handel rather loudly when feeling uninspired. And worst of all, sing along. How will I remember NOT to do the above in an office? How will I remember to stay dressed? How badly am I going to humiliate myself on Monday?
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Wedding Rings
Posted Mar 9, 2005
S and I have two neat little green boxes on the shelf in our bedroom. One contains a little white gold band, and the other a bigger white gold band. I cannot stop myself from taking them out and looking at them. Look - the little ring fits exactly inside the circle of the big ring! I could get quite sentimental about this.
Nine days until my wedding day.
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Return of the ring
Posted Dec 9, 2004
Some of you may know that while on holiday in Spain in October, I dropped my engagement ring onto a tiled floor and the emerald got 'rather knocked about' as my jeweller put it. Well, we did eventually take the poor blighted thing back to the original jeweller (after the usual unnecessarily lengthy insurance faff) who found a nice new emerald for it. I went to collect it yesterday, and gosh, it IS a nice new emerald. I am so pleased to have it back, I can't tell you.
*twinkle twinkle*
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You have been warned.
Posted Nov 19, 2004
I was browsing through Cassel's Humorous Quotations, as one does when feeling uninspired in the field of birthday cards, and came across a most marvellous and heart-warming entry. It would seem that Lord Massereene and Ferrard stood up in the House of Lords in 1980, addressing the assemblage on the Wildlife and Countryside Bill, and spake thusly:
'It is no good putting up notices saying "Beware of the bull" because very rude things are sometimes written on them. I have found that one of the most effective notices is "Beware of the Agapanthus".'
Ha!
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