Dear mum and dad: we’re keeping our baby!

Just to clear up since my hysterical outburst over Cleo; we are not selling her. I cried my little heart out to both Peter and Kevin and they talked me out of cutting my losses, because that is all it would be. Cutting losses. This doesn’t mean there will be no more losses. But, as [...]

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Never thought about it as a dance under a pole

This was Kevin’s response after an exchange which went like this
Kevin: It’s quiet now that she’s gone. It was like that when Mischa went home too.
Ine: I know. It’s a bit like being in Limbo.
Kevin: …
This is what I have to live with, folks. Feel sorry for me.
So here we are. Dog-less again. Today we [...]

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Mixed feelings

We left London one Cleo poorer, and I left a lot of tears lighter. Yesterday, when I really, truly and seriously contemplated selling her I had a reaction of instant grief. Peter, my mechanic, had to end our conversation quickly because I cried on the phone and I was about to set him off too.
Cleo [...]

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Very. Bad. Day. — Losing. Cleo.

Since we got Cleo she has given us a lot of joy, but we have also poured an insane amount of money into her just to keep her on the road. And this last year has not been good for her. We’ve used her very little as she’s been parked in a parking house rather [...]

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Travel nerves

Yesterday I knew what I wanted to blog about today. Had a neat title and all, and now I can’t remember a single one of those really great things I wanted to say. Perhaps I should start keeping a notebook with me at all times… ah, yes. I tried that. Got a nice, red notebook [...]

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Falling in love with Austria

As the world is jumping through hoops to analyse the sick mind of a country that can produce someone like Josef Fritzl (this is in German), I am falling in love with this place and with my Austrian friends. Sure, it’s easy to generalise. To say that Austrians are all mad for having brought forth [...]

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No longer cute with my hair all tousled in the morning

I have a terrible habit of not doing things. Or rather, of doing them rather intermittently. For instance, I have not been to a dentist since we lived in Edinburgh. That’s 7 years. I had such a good dentist there, she never prodded my gums or made me cry. But in London I went through [...]

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Friday morning blues

I’ve just discovered that I’m wearing my knickers inside out, but I can’t be bothered to take my trousers off to fix it. I can feel that this is going to be an awkward day.
Two days ago a ‘heating-meter-reader’ was supposed to come and read the heating-meter. ‘They’ (I love those generic pronouns when you [...]

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Old age? Or do I just have so much on my mind all the important stuff has to move over?

Forgot to bring my new sunglasses when we went to Bratislava. So I bought another pair at Tesco’s there (yes, we went to Tesco’s in Bratislava and we are not ashamed to admit that. I re-phrase: we are almost not ashamed to admit that. I re-phrase again: I am almost not ashamed to admit that [...]

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Blah blah blah

You may have noticed the changing colours on the butterfly up there. Well, at work one of our clients sent in a couple of jpgs and a couple of illustrator files for an ad, explaining that he wanted them in a loop. Of course, people normally send animated gifs to us (any nerds out there [...]

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