30 in 2005

January has been a very busy month, in a good way. It's not an excuse and I just wanted to say I'll be more 'Diligent' in Fe...

.... I didn't make any resolutions last year. Or at least none that I bothered to record on my dead weed like blog. But in years past I ...

2011 sucked in many many ways; predominantly in the loss of my grandfather, two uncles and a friend whose death remains unresolved. However ...

Grow old with me, The best is yet to be.                                                    - (Robert Browning. Poet. 1812 - 1889) Happy te...

A. A place to inhale the lovely warm steamy air and feel your pores open. Or B. Where the condensed sweat of other gym users is attackin...

Back when I was a child my mum used to make me a Christmas tree each year. It did not matter that we were not Christian. That had certainly ...

I have always always loved watching cartoons. The Road runner outwitting the Coyote, Tweety bird escaping from hungry Sylvester and Tom thwa...

At the end of a long busy week of managing my child's hectic social life I am out in central London having an evening with friends. We a...

In early November this year V, kid and I had a weeks vacation in Italy. We flew to Rome where we spent 4 days before taking a train to Venic...

I read this earlier this year: There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently t...

My ears hurt. And feel all blocked. My tonsils are,as usual, out of a summer hibernation and desperately foraging for every virus and bacter...

While I begin everything with good intentions my follow through clearly leaves something to be desired. To make up for not posting yesterday...

This summer my cousin 40in2006 came to London with her husband and two daughters. It was a wonderful sunny week and every evening exhausted ...

First it was an amazing summer of guests and I was having too much fun to post. Then I was lazy enjoying the sunshine and long summer days. ...

I'm 21 with 15 years experience. I think this kind of thinking and the chopping off of my hair are certain signs of a mid-life crisis. ...

Tomorrow is my 36th birthday. And I cannot for the life of me think of 36 things to say in one coherent post so I thought a nice little ramb...

I am a realist and I usually tell it like it is. In fact my friend M and I once had a conversation where she said that she would never say i...

1. On some introspection I have decided that I don't dislike spiders. Especially small harmless ones. What I do dislike are the cobwebs....

1. A 'reveal' so long in the making that all very bored parties have left the stadium. 2. As pristine as this looks in the picture,...