30 in 2005

This is almost my last post about my long ago trip to India. Just one more after this about Mumbai and then we’re all done. No trip to India...

Warning: Another long post. Credit: Post title is a word stolen from Marginalien I left Heathrow on a rainy day. The skies had been grey and...

Warning: A long post – so look away now if you have no patience! I’ve never had an uninteresting trip on a plane. In my minds eye planes are...

I saw a web-link recently of an exhibition of photographs featuring children interacting with traditionally wild animals in zoo-like setting...

..what all these bloggers read or don't: Shoefiend : the promise of cheese in any form! A lovely long list. Makes me want to go back and...

By Jane Sunshine . Thank you kindly Luckily its about my favourite subject. Books. I hope I've done this justice. Here goes: 1. What is...

Valentine's day - again. Two people near beating each other over a sorry looking bouquet of carnations at M&S. Couples on the bridge...

I hate estate agents. They bring out the absolute worst in me - pretty much more than any other group of people I can think of. I do hate ge...

Took the bull by the horns and rearranged the side bar of this blog. I needed to remove quite a few blogs that I no longer read because - th...

Ever since the non-smoking office, restaurant, mall, station came into existence it has been hell for the non-users. Instead of lessening se...

Back from a 3 day trip to Amsterdam and have spent the last week days sifting through the information floating around in my head (i.e. too l...

Watched Lion King at the Lyceum with the S-Team over the weekend. V and I only end up watching one musical or so a year – sheer lazineess. A...

Long silence. I find that as we grow older illnesses takes on so much importance and gravity. I remember feeling as a child that all adults ...

Before we got the guard we did it all ourselves. Top to bottom, spic and span; it took two of us a bit of everyday all working week and all ...

All in the same go. 101 posts round up year 1 on this mighty machine humbly known as the blogosphere. I'm glad I made it this far. I adm...

This post is not about new years resolutions for 2006. It's about resolutions made by adults to take on new responsibilities further con...

I know. You are looking at the time the past four posts have been posted at and wondering at my super typing speed. I began by typing up wha...

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre ( Book 15 ): This was borrowed off someone’s bookshelf after a sparkling dinner last weekend and I finished...

31 Songs by Nick Hornby (Book 14 ) : This I bought in Borders, Oxford Street, while waiting to meet a friend. I resisted the lights and bou...

Anthem by Tim Binding (Book 13) : Bought in a bargain store in Greenwich because how can I resist a solid hardback!? This is the story of fo...