I grew up in the school of “if it’s a good joke, it’s worth repeating”. I suspect that, separate from this, I am genetically predisposed to like puns, which are a form of repetition in a way, causing you to think about what you’re already familiar with. But the upshot is, I’m all too good at …
Category archives: Reading
Scenes from a bus
Public transport. It’s a marvellous thing for writing inspiration, or even just a little entertainment at the end of a working day. Sights from today’s bus ride home: A Goth at a bus stop with black gloves with a skeleton pattern on the backs of the hands. As I tend to sit upstairs, I got …
Milly Molly Mandy strikes back
Honest, it started as a book review, it is in no way intended to comment on any cabinet reshuffle… Spent some pleasant time with G and S over yesterday afternoon/evening and this morning, and discovered that one of the books in S’s recent acquisitions for her girls is Milly Molly Mandy. For the uninitiated, Milly …
Cars and trucks and things that go
Off to Dunfermline today, to give a hand to A and her kids. With the eldest now in school, a visitor to the house allows D, no. 2, to up the vehicular ante, and fit as many transport books as he can. D’s specialist subject is tractors, for which he will happily count up to …
Getting plastered
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 …