Second childhood |
A few months ago I wrote how recent illness made me step back and really focus on those trivial, but beautiful little things in life. Today, I had to walk through the park in town, and since over the ...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:25:00 GMT |
Shiny Chrome |
So, I have given in to the hype and installed Google's new browser, Chrome. I'm generally suspicious of anything that comes out of the Google stable because of tracking issues so was resisting it, but...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
Time and Space |
The two luxuries one never seems to get enough of.
It would be wonderful to be able to devote the time to someone or something that deserves it. Not to feel as if you were sometimes paddling upstream ...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:05:00 GMT |
A "Wet Friday" Update |
Although I should know better by now, it still amazes me when one person will make a statement and it is accepted without comment or question as a truth universally acknowledged; then when I subsequen...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:43:00 GMT |
Forwards, backwards... |
Some days it's two steps forward and one back. Some days it's one step forward and two back. Just lately, it's been the latter. Physically, I feel like I've gone back to how I was three months ago. I'...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:51:00 GMT |
I am Hemocyte |
The one aspect of my disease that none of the doctors or consultants I've seen over the last four months has ever really warned me about or given any advice on how to handle, is the emotional one. Is ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:06:00 GMT |
The road to recovery |
Finally - after six months, a battery of hospital tests, enough blood samples to feed a hungry vampire for a year and several alarming false diagnoses, the medication is kicking in and this pernicious...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:07:00 GMT |
Down my lane |
The lanes are white with mayblossom and campion and frothy swathes of cow parsley at the moment. Red campion, meadow cranesbill, forget-me-nots and violets are dotted amongst all the white. Very, very...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 09:22:00 GMT |
Wet Sunday |
Spring seems to have been cancelled this year. Today is, rather like my mood, gloomy and uncertain. Foggy, grey and drizzling - yep, a typical British mid-April day such as you might also find in Nove...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:02:00 GMT |
Weirdness of the week - carrot chocolate |
What I’m eating at the moment:
Chocolat Frey Karotten Spezial
This is really, truly weird. Milk chocolate with carrots. Yes - carrots. It’s not a joke. This is a bar of 34% cocoa Swiss m...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:41:00 GMT |
