Month: December 2009

The Bauble Basher

 As we are now enjoying that curious ceasefire in the festivities between Christmas and New Year, let me show you exactly why the tree at Divorce Towers is never, ever, ever going to make it into the pages of World of Interiors. Every time my back is turned, a certain furry someone creeps into the …

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The story of our lives

Violet Posy, and her lovely Christmas Decorations Tour Carnival, have got me thinking. Every family’s christmas tree tells a story. Last night, before I saw Violet’s post, I was laughing at ours. Well, mostly at our rather stately angel. There she sits at the top of the tree, in her velvet robes with real feather wings, …

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Round Robin

I popped over to Lulu’s blog this morning at Family Affairs, and read her views on Round Robins. Gosh, she’s had a year. I’m not going to write my own as, like Rosie Scribble, I only say what I can. I sometimes feel I am fenced around with barbed wire, my own as well as …

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Johnny B Good

I was going to do a really serious post today, about politics* and everything – but then I got an email in my inbox which has completely sorted out my priorities. It was from my very dear friend Johnny Boden, saying the sale is now on. He’s not actually a friend, of course – we’ve …

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Unwelcome visitors

We have unwelcome visitors at Divorce Towers. Many, many, unwelcome visitors, and not just the iffy aunts and other assorted annoying relatives that homes sometimes become infested with at this time of year. No, it is a more ticklish, if not to say fiendishly itchy, problem. Readers of a squeamish nature may wish to look …

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Shopping for Britain

I wouldn’t normally venture to Oxford Street this close to Christmas. For most of the year it is a mildly uninspiring, too large but reasonably convenient shopping venue, but in mid-November something strange happens and it seems to be taken over exclusively by mad people on a mission to buy horrible things for people they …

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Calendar girls

Anyone finding it hard to get into the festive spirit? This sometimes happens to me, and I remain in denial about the imminent approach of the old chap with the big tum and red jimjams right up until the last minute – and sometimes way after his sleigh has taken off again. This year, for …

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Wordy Wednesday

Most people do Wordless Wednesday, over here at Divorce Towers we’re not afraid to do things differently. So, on a dark, dank, drizzly December day, here’s a lovely wordy jokelette to cheer us all up, from my gorgeous friend E in Brussels: A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back and inform the other what the …

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