What’s gone on?

  • I have a sore thumb

    I watched my mum and dad arrive yesterday on the Gate Cam (offline at the moment). It was lovely to see them on my return home. My mum was a bit upset that the house was spotless and she couldnt do any cleaning as such though she did have a go (my mum loves tidying…

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  • Old

    Old people. So called because they are “old”.

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  • Oh look

    Oh look

    It’s snowing. Well…just a little bit.

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  • Hands

    My appointment for the neurology tests finally came through on Saturday. Not bad considering I put in for them in June of last year. Granted an appointment came through for the Neurological Centre in Liverpool in August but it was a week too late and I’d moved to Yorkshire. When I went to see Dr…

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  • Garden

    So this weekend was abound with gardening. A man came on Sunday to lay the kitchen floor tiles and I had to saw about 1cm off the bottom of the kitchen door. I’m not the most confident of DIYers so I only bodged it a teeny bit. But if you squint you can’t see the…

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  • Garden

    It took 4 hours to do a 4 ft stretch of our garden this morning. Not, you understand, because it was over grown. But due to the constant interruptions from our neighbours. First GTHD then Mrs Owen then when she had gone GTHD came back. Just as we thought “Ooh we can do a bit…

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  • Dream

    Last night I dreamt that secretly the world governments knew climate change was down to over population and we had to have a mass cull. Cue comedy inflatable breasted PVC cat suited vampiress death squads. What is wrong with my imagination to conjour up such imaginings!?

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  • As directed by the delightful cujosmurf

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  • Trappist Monks

    I got home last night 7 Romanians and a horse on my doorstep. One of the Romanians was clutching a tatty piece of paper the others just stood round smoking cigarettes. “Are you Stegzy Gnomepants? Great white hunter?” she asked “Yes” I replied “Greetings to you. I come from far away and have heard of…

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  • Money

    There was a thing on the breakfast telly this morning about how the credit card companies have got these wrist band things that you wave about in front of a scanner instead of handing over cash. True to form this got me thinking. Reasons I like having cash in my pocket It’s handy Soon as…

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