1. There's a box that I've been ignoring -- a Sargasso sea of cables woven and tangled with peripherals. I comb out the tendrils, link everything together and throw the switch. We have a computer again. The Internet is expected on Wednesday.
2. The tv man makes a verbal sketch of a husband sulking on the sofa because "...and forgive me for saying this, but he wants what he's used to having, and he doesn't like it when he doesn't get it."
3. Behind the reception desk in A&E, they have a collection of toy meercats in medical uniforms.
The real end of Christmas, multitasking and life before.
1. We eat the last of the Christmas treats with our coffee -- a few stray stollen bites from Lidl. 2. While listening to a work webinar, I f...
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1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
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1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...