30 in 2005

1. Why do I have no faith in the system? After I fought with the Bloomsbury aunty I was sure I would not get a replacement for my faulty cop...

1. It's winter. Not autumn, just winter. Which is disappointing because either summer never really had a chance to settle in or I was to...

1. It's been a slow news week. Actually it's been the wierdest kind of week, one in which I have had no inkling of date or day unles...

1. If statistics are to be believed apparently I can no longer be counted upon to come up with cogent posts worth reading. So for the forsee...

My how time flies when you’re changing diapers (yes, British people I am using Amriki Ingles – I say diapers; somehow nappy just seems not ...

Thanks for nothing internet. I am having to re-type the whole of the post that I wrote last weekend. Boring. All the household appliances ar...

I used to be able to write in word do_uments and then paste stuff into blogger. No more apparently. As half the keys on my laptop are not w...

...has changed in this 30s household beyond all recognition. 30in2005 and V had a baby boy on the 6th of July 2009. We are both completely i...

It was Wimbledon weather (i.e. rain rain) for only a day in the past two weeks - besides that one day of run we have had uninteruupted days ...

So many bits, so little time or energy. Summer is here. The odd thundershower threatens but basically its nice and hot mostly (although at 4...

It’s clearly a very popular place if just starting the word ‘Smith…’ can get a taxi to take you to ‘Smiths of Smithfields’ without need for ...

It all began on a Friday in summer last year. The wife of V’s friend, my firm friend and then a very new mother, e-mailed to say she needed ...

I’ve near given up on blogging. Not because I have nothing to write; more because the weather is so nice that I cannot muster the brain powe...

What is Monday night without doing something silly? Like decapitating your thumb while slicing a non-descript cucumber. What began as an ide...

Oh so long that you might need some coffee (to stay awake) and a comfortable chair (in case you don't manage to). In the hectic pace of ...

Not everyone has one and not everyone needs one but mentors can be an important part of one’s adult life. Beside the very formal way of bein...

After college (and a possible post graduation) comes the real, often bright lights of a harsh world. Filled with adulthood people, the ones ...

It is purely my opinion that the linking years between ones childhood/ early teen years and adulthood are the college years. And that these ...

3 points before we begin: 1. This is based on my experience of 33.9 years. Even though I use the greater ‘us’, ‘you’ and ‘we’ – this just ma...

Or things that make me mad with sadness/ grief/ anger. Take your pick. 1. Levels of respect: Behaviour of a certain family member who has no...