What a load of footballs

Spain has just scored. Yes, amazingly I am actually watching football. Euro2008 finals, Spain-Germany. To be accurate, WE’re watching football. We’re sitting on the balcony with Kevin’s little TV , BBC world service, Lucy plonked in the middle getting startled each time Kevin gets overly excited which, as you can imagine, is regularly. And like [...]

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Heeeeeeeere’s Lucy!

We’re looking after Lucy. She belongs to Adrienne and Oliver. She’s some sort of medium-sized mongrel and incredibly sweet, even though Adrienne tried to make her out to be some sort of MONSTER that growls and snaps at people and we had to be really careful when going — anywhere. Well, we’ve seen none of [...]

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What not to do on a Saturday night

We went to see Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream. We thought that was a safe choice it being a Woody Allen film and all. We got that wrong, didn’t we? We were treated to a loooong and dull version of East Enders, you know; that truly dire London soap opera, with even worse acting and with [...]

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Been there, done that, got the t-shirt

When I do things I don’t do them by halves… I must have written about the sale of Molly and how sad I felt at no longer being a biker…? If not; well, I should have. I know I wrote about the Toy Run and being invited to join the charity run around the Ring [...]

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Toilet talk

There is the odd blog I read almost religiously, Dooce’s blog being on the top of my list. This week she has been away on holiday, and in her absence she has had guest bloggers writing posts on her blog. This guest blogger had me both laughing and smiling knowingly, as well as cringing at [...]

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Like opening up a can of worms…

One thing ‘foreigners’ should NEVER, EVER do is write about English grammar on their blog. You may have noticed that I don’t keep the comments open in general? For the most part, what I write about doesn’t warrant comments from anyone. I’m simply sharing my life with the anonymous Internet because my life is so [...]

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The Oxford comma — say no more.

When I was in Texas as a foreign exchange student I was DRILLED in punctuation rules and spelling rules and ‘how to construct the perfect opening sentence’ rules unlike anything before or since. Ms Prince never let anyone off easy and sent most of us crying within minutes of having handed in any one essay. [...]

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This thing called work

So. My sincere apologies. WORK, you know, that stuff one has to do in order to pay one’s bills, has totally taken over lately. Perhaps I might as well admit that I don’t really work in order to pay my bills because it’s my dream-job, and those kinds of jobs don’t really pay a lot [...]

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And this is me on a Kawasaki Ninja 250

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