Yackety yak

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Honey, can youse take out the trash?

I even sorted my crap: plastic with plastic, paper with paper, oozing sticky fluids with noxious defrosting fish.
Three carloads up and down the drive and it was done.
A little bit of Al Green, then I’m done too.

Andiamo!

Monday, August 1st, 2005

The packers arrived at 8:00 and I had to tell them to wait. We still had no quote for the shipment and therefore had no idea of the cost. Imagine … we write them a blank cheque, they take all our stuff and hold it as ransom until we pay whatever they ask!
The quote arrived […]

Girl-on-girl housework

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

There’s an ad campaign in Italy at the moment for endermology treatment that looks as if you iron away your cellulite.
I like the picture because I can imagine it embodies a doubly erotic fantasy for many men.I love the levitating table, but close up, the endermologicky machine looks scary.

Exterminate! Exterminate!

Life’s too short to stuff a mushroom

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

Shirley Conran’s epigraph to Superwoman is as true today as it was 30 years ago. Here’s the high and low points of my day.
06:45Woken by small boy. Freddo, mama. I’m bibbering. Stripped him off and showered him down. Stripped bed and loaded wash #1. Dressed both kids. Made their breakfast. Made their school lunch. Brought […]