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Have been neglecting blogging somewhat since Easter, but my excuse is watertight. I’ve been busy falling in love with a wonderful guy. This has entailed a summer packed with all the usual fun stuff you do when you’ve just started seeing someone, but with the added bonus of getting to know his two kids. Becoming a [...] This is an interview I did with my dad at Christmas. He was a mobile librarian in the Highlands for 18 years, a job that many people have told me must be the best in the world. I wanted to see if this was, in fact, the case. I also crowd sourced some questions from my Twitter [...] My grandfather was a magazine publisher; mostly he seems to have published a magazine in India in the 1920s called, simply, Business. There was another one called Indian Ink. These letters are from and to George Bernard Shaw. The first letter is missing. My grandfather presumably requested that he contribute some articles to the magazine. GBS [...] Today I went with my dad and my brother to my grandmother’s cottage to pick over what was left and identify any things I might like to take for myself. My grandmother is not dead, but she has reached an age (99) where living on your own in a 400-year-old stone cottage in the middle of [...] My grandmother – my father’s mother – has been an enormously influential figure in my life, as she has been in the life of just about every other member of my family. She is 98 now, and still a formidable and at times very intimidating character. I could write a book about Granny – probably several books [...] Hung out with my granny in her greenhouse this afternoon (thanks comrade Nibus for reminding me she is 98, not 97). Was amazing to watch her moving about the place. At one stage she started sharpening some rusty old knife against a grinding stone. I wondered with a sort of mixture of awe and horror [...] I just found out about the death of a former flatmate from brain cancer. He was a lovely person: full of fun, humour, energy. I didn’t live with him for long, but he made a lasting impression on me. Having given up on his first choice of career as an actor he was just starting to [...] My mother just informed me that she has been urinated on by a frog. Picture by rcolonna; found on Flickr. Apologies for the pig (frog) Latin. In other news, I have just become aunt to a blue kitten. Congratulations Patroclus and Blue Cat! [...] |
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