All of my clothes appear to have shrunk over the Christmas period. All of them. I think there must be something wrong with my washing machine. Perhaps it has a faulty thermostat and is washing at a near boil? Or perhaps it is the new softener I am using, causing the cotton fibres to contract […]
Is today officially the most depressing day of the year? Feels like it. I remember last year, they announced that the 24th of Jan was scientifically calculated to be the unhappiest day of the year. Something to do with the year’s longest gap between pay days and shitty weather. But I must say, today feels […]
The last two days we have both worked all day. We work away on our laptops’, Kai in his room, me at the table in the sitting room. Come twelve I am starving so I make lunch. These last two days we have had blueberry pancakes for afters. Pudding for a working lunch, I know, […]
The other day a crack whore shouted at me. Or I thought she did. Every now and again, on a corner near my home there are one or two sex workers plying their trade. If there was scale of prostitutes with Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman at the top, these women would be at the […]
So we’ve been to the wedding. It was wonderful, romantic and almost entirely in Norwegian. There were a couple of things that meant this didn’t matter and I was able to understand most of what was going on. In an inspired table setting that impressed me on many levels, I was sat next to my […]
Jen S. Wight 