There I am, innocently watching ‘The Blacklist’, picking up any number of arcane tips about how to run a dastardly criminal empire when the subject of ‘deep fried butter’ comes up. Deep fried butter? Don’t mess with me now, Raymond. Straight over to Google, and yes, it really does exist. How have I lived for […]
O my giddy aunt! A perfectly ghastly week, from Monday to Saturday. By Friday it was so awful that my whole perspective turned on a hinge and I started to find the sheer awfulness of it quite funny. Hysterical laughter? Persecution mania? Perish the thought. Surely I don’t have my own personal full moon hanging […]
There’s a new exhibition at the British Museum about the Scythian empire and its art. ‘The who?’, I hear you ask. I’m surprised you don’t have all the facts about the Scythians at your very fingertips. Forgive my flippancy but in the light of the current political temperature of the world, I have been thinking […]
What a perfectly ghastly day. From the minute I woke up, I knew that the day was going to be a humdinger. By 9am, the only thing that was stopping me from crouching in a corner and rocking slowly back and forth was talking to my lovely customers. And then it went downhill……. 🙂 […]
I’m back from a much-needed sojourn in La Bella Italia. The trip commenced with the 3am start of a 250 mile journey. Don’t ask. This is my idea of hell, not remotely being what you would call a morning person. By the time I arrived at Firenze, I was a complete zombie. Came out of […]
