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Wonder, Wonder, Wonder, Wonder….

So, I’ve been having root canal on my one and only filling. My dentist got so excited by the fact that I have only one filling that I became rather worried….. but that’s a story for another day 🙂 Anyhoo, it has been fascinating. I love everything about it, from the snazzy dental instruments that […]

My (still) Beating Heart

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 […]

Luna To The Max

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 […]

Tempus Fugit

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 […]

Saving Grace

  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……. 🙂 […]