My achievement for this weekend (I think every weekend should have an achievement, even if it is just getting out of bed before 2) was to finally reorganise my CD collection. An activity that pleased both my inner music geek and my inner Monica
There’s Mercury Rev Deserter’s Songs, sitting between The Manic […]
It’s almost Baileys season! Hurrah!
In the same way that it seems wrong to drink Pimms outside of June-August, it always seems wrong somehow to drink Baileys before Novemeber and after February. But with Novemebr rapidly approaching (how did that happen by the way? where as this year gone?) […]
…To my first football match. Despite fears that I would get beaten up in a riot and armed with Boy’s protection it all went off quite smoothly - despite the large, fat, drunk man, sat next to me who spent the whole match spouting continuous foul mouthed abuse at the opposition, the referee, the […]
…Oh hello. Didn’t see you there for a moment. Work is extremely busy. I don’t have time to stop for very long I’m afraid.
The Tory election you say? They’d be a fool to elect anyone other than Cameron - what they need is a bit of life back, they […]
For a while now I’ve been meaning to write a response to this post which I wrote around this time last year.
I’ve been wanting to say how much difference having a job that I enjoy, that challenges me, that means that I don’t dread getting up in the morning has made to me […]
Have you ever wondered where the better off hang out? I’m not talking about the rich and famous, nor even the famous, but the rich. Those for whom money is no object and if it is an object it is one to be admired in a glass case. Or where all the […]
As you can probably tell by the flurry of posts I’ve been catching up on my New York blogging, pics are also up on flickr - edited and divided into manageable chunks for you all
There has also been a streamlining of the blogroll - if you’re not on there and think you […]
04.10.05
New York is just like a film set. You know those iconic images you’ve seen in countless Hollywood movies - the streets that run the length of the island, the yellow taxis everywhere, skyscrapers as high as the eye can see, steam rising from the manhole covers. You walk down the street and […]
01.10.05
A manicure before breakfast on the corner of 6th Ave and 10th Street; brunch in a restaurant on 8th Ave - a smoked salmon bagel (and capers, red onion, lettuce and tomato), basket of mini blueberry and banan muffins, accompanied by the obligatory bloddy mary; an afternoon stroll through Central park; drinking gin martinis as […]
30.09.05
There’s something about (my) family history that is, for me, truely fascinating. Hearing stories about relatives past and their conection with great historical events somehow makes both the distant relative and the history more real.
My great, great, Grandaddy fought in the American Civil War, on the confederate side and was still alive […]