If you dream you’ve found a toilet, don’t use it. What a great piece of advice. It hasn’t happened to me so far, but with age and the necessity of getting up in the middle of the night it can only be a question of time! Sir Thomas Beecham famously said that you should …
Continue reading “People living in glass houses should consider drawing the curtains.”
Procrastination is an excellent word. The dictionary definition is: To put off intentionally and intentionally the doing of something that should be done. Should be done – that’s the key. I prefer to call it displacement activity – after all I should clear out that drawer but on the other hand I probably don’t need …
Umbrage – it’s a good word, it could be a town in Italy or a herb, one might ask ‘How is the sauce?’ and hear the reply ‘Very good, but it could do with a little more umbrage’. However, taking umbrage is a common reaction today but it is difficult to know when one is …
It can become more and more difficult to find things to laugh about as we get older – unless we discount accidentally seeing our reflection in a mirror! We have to take our pleasures where we find them. One of my favourite pastimes used to be eavesdropping – unfortunately even with my hearing aids in …
Is it just me or do other people have fantasies of being in a position of power over someone who has somehow belittled them in the past? The man you fancied who didn’t fancy you back or the sales assistant who looked down her nose as she said she didn’t think they would have anything …
Life becomes more and more of a mystery to me as the years go by – some days I can waste hours looking for the pen that I was writing with a minute ago and that has now, inexplicably, vanished or the loaf of bread that I bought yesterday is nowhere to be found! And …
Continue reading “Sometimes I feel like an escapee from a home for the permanently bewildered.”
Now that is becoming easier to choose your identity I would like to identify as a Labrador. What’s not to like about that – plenty of love, nice warm bed, lots of exercise and most important of all masses of food – not just what’s given to you but whatever you can steal as well.. …
We took care of our children when they were young and needed us, but as soon as the table turns and we get old (at least in their eyes) they think we are incapable and want to interfere with our lives. The is an ad on the radio where a man rings his mother ‘Hi …
I’ve never had a bucket list – I can’t think that I am alone in having the unrealistic and unlikely belief that I, uniquely among the human race, am immortal. If I had a strong faith I would presumably believe that I was going on to a better (or maybe worse) place, but whilst I’d …
Has Anyone Seen My Glasses?