Tag: personal

Auntie Elsie’s music box

  • May 14, 2009 at 10:58 pm

  • A few years ago a great-aunt died. She was a fabulous, eccentric lady, who sucked extra-strong mints and drove a succession of old Minis precariously around Surrey. Auntie Elsie had an open wood fire, a large garden with a jungle and a lion (that we never actually met), and cats who would scarper from anyone [...]

Since using Twitter…

  • May 12, 2009 at 2:14 am

  • I keep telling people how my life has altered since using Twitter, even though I’m well aware of how sad that sounds. The thing is it’s not really about Twitter at all, but about people: all Twitter did was help me find them. This post will appear particularly self-indulgent: it’s trying to articulate something that [...]

Eighteen more things you didn’t know about me

  • February 20, 2009 at 11:31 pm

  • Right, this is the very last time I respond to a meme – chain letter, whatever you call it – on this. I wrote Seven things you may not know about me, and thought that was it. Now Ellie Lovell has gone and tagged me with one that requires twenty five items. So here, sort [...]

Seven things you may not know about me

  • January 27, 2009 at 2:23 am

  • This is Bruce Lawson‘s fault, and I’ve never even met the bloke (well, not since I had any idea of who he is; taking second-hand books from his front door – legitimately – doesn’t count). I’m not as brave as he is so I’m going to revert to the original premise of this ‘chain letter’ [...]