30 in 2005

Note: All this in the past but I feel compelled to finish this narration. Bear with me. 1. Wednesday has been terrifyingly disorganise...

1. I have a week off. When I applied for the week it was because I am in desperate need of winter additions to my wardrobe. Not because the ...

1. Over the weekend, and a few days before even, we began to pack up our kitchen in preparation for what is no doubt going to be a star kitc...

1. My dream kitchen is IN the catalogue. I did not know it was my dream kitchen till I saw it. Also I am easily swayed by pretty pictures an...

1. Being a maha -procrastinator it has taken 4 years of grumbling about the lack of space and general condition of the kitchen before I hav...

1. If you live on a tropical island and / or it is sunny and balmy where you are look away now for there is more complaining to come. August...

“Be back at 3.30pm ok?” And with those parting word I had left the IHC. It’s 3.30pm and with my little receipt slip I am back to collect ...

1. I feel Old. 2. I am 35. 3. The Birthday was on the 15th of July. 4. Too late to blog about it? 5. Did not even manage to s...

What a morning it has been! My initial plan was to submit my documents by 10am and then wander over to Covent Garden and treat myself to a ...

1. This is a break in my mammoth saga of just one day at the IHC. It has been hard to write without saying horrid spiteful things and giving...

According to the Website (on which I am reliant because of course no one answers the phone or responds to the numerous messages I have left ...

There is only one token window for all 800 people in the snaking line. It is giving out tokens for each service that the High Commission pro...

It’s been a manic morning requiring precision planning for childcare followed by the mad sardine tangle of the Tube that I have become so un...

1. I won't get into the reasons I haven't kept up to my promise to self to write. Suffice to say my middle name used to be organised...

The bout of illness that our child has just faced has left us anxious and utterly exhausted. It's first time parent syndrome. I am relia...

Rain. In my adult London life the dripping English rain is uninspiring, a damp squib if you will. I rarely carry an umbrella or wear a rainc...