Only 24 hours to go until the New Year! (Well, for those of us in California, at least…) I don’t know about you, but I’ll remember 2012 quite fondly. It was the year I started doing Pilates and T’ai Chi Ch’uan — one of my new year’s resolutions was to find a form of exercise [...]
Today my little sister, Bubs, is 21. Twenty-one! It’s a funny thing, having a “little” (albeit now officially adult) sister — this is a person whose nappies I changed! The relationship I have with Bubs the closest thing I’ve had to being a parent — and she’ll be the first to grumble that I’m like [...]
Hey There, Hot Stuff! A couple of years ago on an urban excursion for Indian food in Jackson Heights with Momsicle, I picked up a 1/4lb bag of ground chili — at only $3, this was the hot bargain of the year. Then I heard an incredulous voice behind me. You? You?! YOU whide girl [...]
I have a new morning routine: when I let Banjo out first thing, I begin the short ritual of tending to my garden. It starts with my bending at the waist to pick up a new red plastic watering can shaped like a wingless origami crane, and deeply inhaling as I straighten up from the [...]
One of my favourite bloggers, Brandi at Brandi Girl Blog, recently tweeted about organising a Color Palette Blog Walk. The theme was Achievements — anything you’re proud of, big or small. § Taking in the Venetian skyline Here is a photograph that I took when I was 10 years old, on a family visit to [...]
What do you get when you combine these photos and several more? A surreal art gallery at the beach, of course! If you read my last post, you will see Sir Banjo floating in the ceiling. Now you know why he was knighted! What you might not know was that this was a project for [...]
What’s in an accent? Years ago when I was on the London Underground, there was an Irish drunk sitting opposite me. He was a merry drunk, but I didn’t want to engage him in conversation because he kept asking people around him some rather personal questions, and in those days I wasn’t very good at [...]
My little sister, Bubs, is mischievous. But she also has a very big heart. When she was about 13, she started secretly leaving out milk for a stray cat who roamed the village. Mum wondered why this mewing cat, nicknamed Mrs. Tiddles, kept showing up at her front door, but, being a fairly clued-in parent, [...]
For the IndieInk Writing Challenge this week, Shastina challenged me with “What am I supposed to do?” and I challenged Sarah Sparks with “What is the farthest you’ve ever travelled from home? Please describe where, why, when. And I’d love to hear about something you ate, if you are so inclined.” To be perfectly honest, [...]
A few weeks ago, my best friend, Boo, told me that she was going to visit her parents in Geneva for a few weeks. Her mum, Tante Poule, very kindly offered to pay for me to go too, so how could I say no? Et alors, eight days later, off I flew to Geneva. Those [...]
