Posted in Family, Home & Garden on October 26th, 2007 9 Comments »
I’ve gotta tell you about this!
I was talking to my mum last night and as Paul, my son, is living with her while Dad’s in need of constant care, she was telling me what he’s been up to lately.
Now, bear in mind that Paul has profound learning difficulties. He can’t count to more than five […]
Posted in Reading on October 24th, 2007 5 Comments »
I’m reading “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett at the moment. Most of you will probably know that it’s a children’s story written in 1911 about a little girl who lost her family in India and was sent to stay at a huge, rambling old mansion on the Yorkshire moors and how her experience […]
Posted in Other Bits & Bobs on October 14th, 2007 11 Comments »
The Shirbit culture believes that the human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to feebleness and disease. The Shirbit therefore indulge in rituals and ceremonies designed to avoid this, and consequently every household has a shrine devoted to the body. The rituals associated with the shrine are private and secret. Adults never […]
Posted in Home & Garden on October 10th, 2007 7 Comments »
Being sick and tired of my miserable and oppressive kitchen, I’m currently looking around for supplies with which to transform it. Now I’ve always been into antiques and, when it comes to decor, what’s now fashionably known as “shabby chic” is pretty much my natural style. Believe me, I DO NOT follow fashions when it […]