Thirteenth Night
I was brought up believing that Twelfth Night came on the 6th of January – a subject upon which my mother brooked no discussion – but according to Wikipedia you start counting from Christmas Day, not Boxing Day, and the … Continued
Christmas bokeh
More Christmas nonsense today, as time was pressing heavily on me and the poinsettia and the tree were both readily available. This morning R and I did more tidying and cleaning, and then he went off out with a shopping … Continued
Happy New Year
This is me by about 10pm on any New Year’s Eve since the Millennium – which is the last time R and I were invited to a NYE party. (That, by the way, was more of a boast than a … Continued
Christmas bokeh
Many thanks to everyone who said kind things to me after my dental surgery yesterday. The good news is that my face is less painful today; the bad is that the swelling is more noticeable, and the bruising is emerging. … Continued
Who’s smiling now?
Not me, that’s for sure. Today I arrived at the stage of Operation Save JDO’s Canine Tooth that I’ve been dreading: it involved multiple injections, some cutting, much scraping, some ultrasonic drilling, a bone graft, and then quite a lot … Continued