Taexalia
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This Week I Twittered About…
Painting the ceiling # Ride hard x @NewTattoo in reply to NewTattoo # The White speckled look is the new black. # @misssym but you just got back from Canada! in reply to misssym # Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/Bloggers to join # It's a bank holiday, does this mean I winna be gettin ma book parcel the day?!? # RT @Biddy http://is.gd/D6nT it makes me quite agitated to see this kind of sexism, perpetrated by women, is still rampant. It's my body! # OK hurry up and dry dear ... read more
This Week I Twittered About…
Amazingly my legs still work. # I love my phone and all the cute noises. On public transport I'm aware I'm the only one who does. Seems silent mode is unique to my phone... # It isn't just the speaker who needs to resign!!!!!!!! # I appear to have mislaid the gear stick for my arse. # Home Affairs Cmttee evidence session on G20 "policing."http://bit.ly/pnK4M (via @UKParliament) ~ lest we forget the MPs attack on democracy # If MPs think the resignation of the Speaker is enough, they need ... read more
Women With Altitude
My Mum and Dad have been known to do the odd bit of walking in their time. Their pursuit of height has seen them conquer more than one hundred Munros, as well as many other smaller hills and winding paths. I have joined them on occasion and my own walking resume includes some long paths like the Lairig Gruh, as well as a small puckle of Munros and assorted hillage. There are various reasons why our hill-walking exploits have been curtailed in recent ... read more23 Reasons Why My Life Is Chaos
If we had known what we know now, the sound-proofing project would have been done in week one and before we bought furniture or unpacked any boxes. Watching new plaster dry is as stimulating and progressive as watching paint dry. Having a whole room devoid of the detritus of home life means all the other rooms are over-flowing. The other rooms were sort of over-flowing anyway. It's unfathomable that all this detritus (I am being polite) could fit into the smaller dwelling we left, ... read more
Sandwood Bay
I have wanted to visit Sandwood Bay for quite a while. In March 2008 we found ourselves at the top of the track in an unexpected and un-planned stop but the lateness of the hour meant we could not undertake the four and a half mile walk to the beach (and the four and a half mile walk back).When I created my Day Zero Project, it was an easy and obvious goal to add to the list - and a quite stunning goal to mark "complete". That said, I want to make the trip ... read moreThis Week I Twittered About…
We have blue sky, sunshine, I've opened a window and it isn't baltic... dare I hope? Typically I am stuck inside re-claiming the bedroom :-| # When Sorry isn't enough... Claiming public money for your gardener... Forgetting to CHANGE the policy on carpet bombing civilians... # RT @Peon12009: "@Taexalia if your a sinner swine flu kills!" how to persuade me to follow you. Not. # Good grief # Online back-up... do you use it? Recommendations? # RT @Natures_Voice Magpies - love 'em or hate ... read more
Garden Meditation
I am sitting on the patio, or is it the terrace ? For the first time since we moved the forces of weather and my own choice to abandon work and home creation pressures have converged to give me an afternoon doing nothing in the sunshine... Ants are busy carrying bits of debris across the flagstones, and a few feet away a goldfinch feeds on thistle seeds from my feeder. The bird appears oblivious to the human watching and writing, and oblivious to the sleeping cat - who Is as oblivious to the ... read more
This Week I Twittered About…
8am sound-proofing phase two begins. Chaos reigns. But it will cure 2am party wall bangers next door intruding on my life # Pieces of an upstairs partition wall just travelled out my front door. It sounds like upstairs is being demolished. # @ was not here during sound-proofing phase one. @ is wincing and saying "they are breaking our house!" # "That's your two rooms destroyed" ACE!!! # @misssym happy travels ! It's all blog material ;) in reply to misssym # Currently there is one huge ... read more
Dear Sixteen
A letter to my 16 year-old self, inspired by Sue Bailey and Stephen Fry... Dear Sixteen, I find myself struggling to begin this letter since there are so many moments that will come to you that I might want to better prepare you for, protect you from or remove entirely from your coming future. There are things that have already happened to you that I want to wash from your skin... As one who appreciated The Butterfly Effect, I must consider the implications of urging you to change ... read more
This Week I Twittered About…
@theknickermafia ironic from the party who brought us the first woman PM. in reply to theknickermafia # @theknickermafia just read it. There is always an excuse when it comes to equal pay. Know this personally. in reply to theknickermafia # Is it too late to cancel Monday and go for a duvet day? # I see. It is too late to cancel Monday. Unless the sound-proofing guy does the quote whilst I languish in bed. Impressed at quick response # Trying to focus on the fact that once it is done we ... read more