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Things To Make Me Smile (and a few things that annoy me)

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  • Waiting

    I’m sitting up in a London Hotel bedroom.  It’s almost 07:30 and I’ve been awake since 06:00. Breakfast will be served soon, although I still have to wait. I’ve started to read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and I’m using the map of London to plot Smilies first day in the book.   Read more

  • Izabel

    Yesterday we were invited to the Christening of a friends little girl.  We haven’t been to many Christenings so weren’t too sure what to expect.  After having one panic over some very random sign-postage and a wrong turn when we were so close to our destination we arrived just before it all started – phew.… Read more

  • Yesterday Was A Good Day

    I have to admit that I wasn’t holding out much hope for yesterday as it was a Monday.  All you really want to do is just get through it and move on with the week.  However when MB got into work she had a date for her surgery (for carpal tunnel) and it was the… Read more

  • S.O.F.A.

    Or Shankill Old Folks Association – have their regular book sale on the first Saturday of every month. We don’t normally get to go out to it too often as himself has to work – however since he is out sick we ventured out – mind you we don’t venture out for too long as… Read more

  • Starting to emerge.

    Well hello stranger! I know, it’s been ages since I was here – I really am sorry.  I’ve been in a bit of a funk but in the last few days I’ve noticed that it seems to have lifted.  That means there are little traces of me to be found here and there. So what… Read more

  • Drive By Posting

    I shouldn’t do this but I’m going to anyway. First off let me explain – I’m a cheap date = you only have to wave a cork under my nose and I’m drunk so a glass of wine later and I’m well tiddled.  Therefore posting things is not advised for 2 reasons 1. my typing… Read more

  • The Nation’s Favourite Poems

    Himself picked up the double CD of “The Nation’s Favourite Poems” and we are sitting here deciding which poem to listen to next. I have a definite softness for William Butler Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dylan Thomas. There really is something lyrical about the rhythm of spoken poetry. Maybe it’s a good job I’m… Read more

  • Nan-nan

    I have just had a missing week.  On Monday we got a call to say that my grandmother had fallen during the night – at that time it really could have gone one way or another but we all decided best to travel just to be on the safe side.  We saw her on the… Read more

  • Looking Forward To The Weekend

    Well himself has to work this weekend and while it is a shame there is a silver lining and that means I get me time.  The instructions for this morning was – “Don’t wake me when going to work”  so I was woken to the cries of ” Deirdre my alarm didn’t go off!”  so… Read more

  • Preparing for the new arrival

    NO! it’s not what you’re thinking. Our telly is trying to decide when it’s going to stop working and in what fashion. It was simply a stroke of luck that my parents were thinking of getting a new telly so they have offered us their old one. When I say old it could be what… Read more