Snipe, horrible dog that she is, rolled in something this morning. Luckily for her, I’ve spent the past few days in a manflu fug and am therefore unable to tell if she’s a stinky Snipe or not. Even more good …
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My dearest, daftest dog. Words cannot begin to describe what a huge role she plays in my life. Words also fail to capture her very Essence Of Being. And her internal logic (or lack thereof). My landlords have got a …
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Time and Tide No, this isn’t another “ye gods, where have all these grey hairs come from?” post (although, now you come to mention it…) but more of a random, ill-thought out observation on the whole “time flieth” thing. At …
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n+1 The formula for dictating the minimum number of bikes a person should own, n being the existing number. Having recently doubled the number of wheels in the shed (a Marin hybrid and an Orbea road bike) , next on …
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Dogs Don’t get me wrong, cats are wonderful animals, but if the world was divided into dog people and cat people, you’ll find me with the four-legged creatures who don’t think that it’s appropriate to kill and eat a bird …
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Snipe makes me laugh, she really does. We’ve both got our routines and habits and adjust our lives together around them. I’ve got used to her checking up on me when I’m in the bath before hiding in the bedroom …
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I’ve been meaning to cut my hair for ages and last night I finally got round to it. I bought my clippers just over a year ago and apart from one or two incidents (usually involving my quiff :sob:) and …
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I am having a day of flatness, interspersed with moments of ‘bloody well get on with it’. I’ve done the laundry, put in an online grocery order, taken the bike out, changed the sheets, fussed the dog, sat in the …
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I confess. I am a terrible dog owner. Snipe and I have an arrangement whereby she wakes me up in the night if she needs to go out and I then won’t call her all sorts of rude names the …
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This morning, I found myself really missing the little black and white terror who made life so complicated with her stubborn ways and fiercely independent attitude (who can forget her two week “holiday” last spring?!). It’s vaguely shy of a …
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