Honest, ossifer, not even once. But I couldn’t resist the title. Little by little, the Frydman decorating project moves on, and the next stage is to get some rooms replastered. This gives us the opportunity to move furniture from room to room in order to clear the rooms that need plastered…Thank goodness for a spare …
Author archives: alison
Collecting
The music collection is building up. Rather later than much of the rest of the population, I have also now tried acquiring some more songs via iTunes. Recently I read a music journalist talking about converting his prized collection into digital format. Having it all neatly amassed, and no longer vinyl, or CD, to hold …
80s revival moment
The tide has been stemmed. I no longer have to walk into a branch of, say, Accessorize, and feel like I’m back in my first school disco just because they’re playing Aha. Nor have I been frequenting 80s revival discos to get a fix of high energy pop. Truth be told, I haven’t been frequenting …
Fug
The wintry onslaught continues across Britain. Alison considers a writing career for the weather section of the Beeb…but wait! There are signs of an alternative weather front looming… Never mind fog (although many do, of course, particularly those driving). What we want at the weekend is fug. Fug is one of those words that suggests …
Sensible mid-life crisis
Maybe it’s another birthday. Or maybe it’s just Facebook. Here are all the ways to try out new cars, pose, acquire a car that suggests there’s a crisis of some kind, or just enjoy beating other people… It probably doesn’t sound terribly healthy. But the Facebook option – aka Petrolhead – does mean that you …