If dogs could fly…
Forget horror books and films – if you want to know the true meaning of terror, try watching your dog jump off a cliff. Of course, once you race to the edge, heart in your mouth and hammering faster than …
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Photo tag archives: may
N is for …
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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Frodo lives!
Although I’ve read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings more times than I can count, I wouldn’t exactly class myself as a massive Tolkien fan – I’ve never read more than a few chapters of The Silmarillion and …
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A close shave
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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Flat
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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Bloody rain
12pm: Realise it’s not raining, grab dog, cycle to village to buy milk and then around the lanes til the clouds get a little bit too grey. 1.30pm: Home. Lunch. Raining. Dog snoring. 4pm: Dog wakes up. Demands to be …
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Over the hills and far away…
Don’t hate me … I am seriously thinking about going back to WordPress. PixelPost and I are not getting on. Well, we are, but it speaks a dialect of PHP that way beyond my vague understanding of the language (roughly …
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Reflecting
Child and mother by Eugene Field O mother-my-love, if you’ll give me your hand, And go where I ask you to wander, I will lead you away to a beautiful land,– The Dreamland that’s waiting out yonder. We’ll walk in …
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On being hit by a train
So, on Monday, I had the dreaded op to yank out my teeth, which turned out to be a far more unpleasant experience than I anticipated. I had a major case of the wobbles even before I was given the …
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Under the Ionian sun
I didn’t post yesterday due to being on a friend’s computer with no access to my own photos, but here I am again. Unlike yesterday, which was warm even as Ally’s three year old son and I were shutting up …
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