Getting your groove back
Off to appear on Ingrid Marsh’s lovely Getting Your Groove Back on the utterly gorgeous Sydenham Radio between 7.30 and 8.30 tonight. Bit nervous so wish me luck!
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Introducing Mrs Carp, the voice inside my head
For the lovely Sleep is for the Weak’s writing workshop: The voices started as soon as I left home for university. ‘God, why did you say that? He/she/they will think you are a total idiot now,’ ‘oh, look, your marks are slipping. Well, what do you expect, you were making a fool of yourself all …
Your cupcakes say a lot about you
So the other day my lovely friend English Mum, in between raising thousands for Haiti with Shelterbox, gave me her patented recipe for cupcake icing. It’s basically 300 g of icing sugar to 150g of butter, add a little milk if you must, a drop or two of vanilla essence and food colouring à volonté. ‘Don’t …
Shiny, Happy People
I’m so glad that lovely Linda from You’ve Got Your Hands Full has tagged me with the Shiny, Happy People meme. It’s partly that Linda is one of the funniest people I know, able to toss off (OMG, she’s going to love that) effortless lines that have me crying with laughter, and partly that I …
Bribery …..and corruption?
Child One has been blowing up a storm on her bassoon of late, bless her, and so we have arrived at a crunch point. Due to the arcane processes of the Examining Board, she has to pass the Grade 5 music theory exam before she can tootle onwards towards the heady heights of Grade 6 bassoonery. …
Bloggers for Haiti
I’m often amazed at the strangeness of the blogging world – that I should somehow enjoy laying my heart bare for all to see, that you should somehow enjoy reading it, that you should want to comment (sometimes) on what you read and that I should draw such strength from those comments and from the knowledge …
My last word on the matter
I am hugely indebted to G for this totally, utterly and completely naughty snippet from someone, somewhere at our august BBC. What on earth do we Brits pay our licence fees for? The language! Readers of a sensitive nature may care to look away now ….
Wordless, Snowless Wednesday
So nice to see a bit of grass without snow on it …… …..even if it’s on a car. Though Child One said as we drove past, ‘don’t these people know that their company looks like it’s called Easig Ass?’
What’s in a name?
As a little New Year’s treat to myself, I popped over to Josie’s writing workshop – what a brilliant idea – and was slightly horrified to find that the first suggestion on her list chimes with one of my guiltiest secrets. What do you seem unable to learn or remember, no matter how hard you …
Five memorable moments
Lovely Linda from You’ve Got Your Hands Full and Have a Lovely Time has tagged me and asked me to write about my five best bits of 2009. It can be complicated for me to write much about my girls, Mr X or True Love, as they have no right of reply (unless they start …