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Meg
How to tell if he’s the right man for you.
I saw an ad for a Perfect Match service, where you text your name and your boyfriend’s name to 666 or some such number, and it texts you back your chances of being intellectually and sexually compatible and living a long and happy life together.
As foolproof as this method seems, I’ve spent years developing my [...]
TURTLES UNITE!
I’ve watched with interest as our local park undergoes major redevelopment of its playing fields, gardens and ponds.
One element of the works that has seemed a bit sad is the very public eradication of the turtle population in the ponds. Of course the turtles obviously had to go — they’re interlopers, the stuff of urban [...]
Blog blog blah
Sometimes you just don’t feel like talking to the world. Which is when youtube comes in handy.
MOTIVATION
Excuse me if you’ve seen this before, but for those of you who haven’t — I hope you’ll find it as interesting as I did.
God works in mysterious ways.
First, He (or She) starts getting you used to the idea by turning down the sunshine. Turning it off, pretty much. Then adds lots of rain, so that you want to huddle indoors and wear actual cozy sweaters, some of which you have to go out and buy (yay!). Then He adds wind, and socks. [...]
Downward Facing Dog
My dogs are faster than I am. They can jump higher. They’re more flexible, have better posture and are (much) less picky eaters. They spend less money on clothes, throw fantastic shapes when they sleep, are excellent listeners, and don’t whine except when there’s a fox in the garden. They’re almost relentlessly cheerful, except when [...]
I heart texts.
I hate the telephone, I really do. It always rings at the wrong time and my daughter mixes the handsets up with the TV remotes so I can never find the buggers. Plus, I have the attention span of a flea, with a nasty tendency to do something else while talking on the phone (the [...]