A few weeks ago, a friend sent me this photo and I thought I’d share it: This week, while shopping for my nearly oldest friend’s birthday gift (but I’m still older than she is), I found this and had to get it for myself: So, what made you smile this week?…
I have a three-day work week. Thursdays are my Fridays. In honour of this, I would like to share my most recent internet-find: Princess Bride Bobbleheads. If I get these, they already have a place beside my Wizard of Oz Pez Set. Because I really do need more junk inspired by my favourite films. Obviously. Do you have any interesting or weird collections? Or interestingly weird collections?…
‘Is the chair coming off?’ the bus-driver asked Sarge. ‘No,’ I said ‘I thought I’d leave the chair here and walk off myself. Have a nice day.’ And I went down the ramp. Two more ramps and I was on a train to Glasgow. As I dug my book out of my backpack, I realised this was the first time I’d done such a trip without Sarge. And I began to miss him, because I am sap. I had plans…
Last weekend, Sarge and I went to the pub (OK, two pubs) to meet with friends and prove that he had survived meeting my mother. We left the first pub in search of another one with an accessible toilet. I spend half my life needing to pee, and the other half looking for an accessible toilet to pee in. I have accepted this as an interesting/annoying part of my life, and go with it. Or not. (Pun maybe intended, I…
Because Broadside and Oh My Words! wanted to know, here are 10 random, or maybe not-so random facts about moi: 1. When I was a kid, I thought Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton were married. Because everyone who sang duets were married to each other. Obviously. I also thought Nina Simone was a man. Because, well, just because. 2. I was born in Dallas, was a kid in New York, and grew up in the Highlands of Scotland. My accent…
