alison
- Name: Alison
- Age: 39
- Gender: Female
- Location: London UK
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life resolutions
01/05/09 05:21:50 | 0 Comments
New years resolutions should never made on new years day. This has nothing to do with how badly hung over you might be, but more to do with making life resolutions all year round rather than think of something on a single day just because someone tells you to.
Life resolutions are things that you decide to do because they'll improve your life. Don't wait a year to start them, put them into action immediately. Don't give up smoking "tomorrow" - do it today. If you... -
Is pettiness an epidemic?
01/03/09 00:41:03 | 6 Comments
I was reminded yesterday of one of the things I was not sorry to leave behind when I stopped working for yuku, and that is the incredible childishness and self absorbed behaviour of a small number of the member base.
Someone "anonymously" tipped me off about a thread that had disturbed her. She didn't like to see people portrayed in a negative light, and wanted me to be aware of it. My first reaction was "don't look!" I've seen so many topics about me on... -
insta shop?
12/13/08 15:36:01 | 2 Comments
I get emails from shops that I buy from - even though I check the box that says NO THANKS. I bet you do too. Then I start getting emails from shops that I did NOT buy from. Most of them I trash without even reading them, but the other day one caught my eye. It wasn't that it had something I was interested in - it was that it was strangely familiar.
It looked like the last email from a different shop. And strangely similar to yet a third shop. I had trashed most of the previous... -
facebook for children?
11/29/08 02:33:36 | 2 Comments
Facebook for children? Surely you jest. What primeval part of any sane person's mind thinks that getting seven year olds to log on and make virtual friends is a good idea?
I was sitting down enjoying my morning cappucino with Saturday's Daily Mail, which I am pleased to have back, since Mr Boxer Shorts decided to switch back from Sunday's one. I found I'd really missed some of my favourite columns - the incredibly cerebral ones, like Slummy Mummy by Lucy Sweeny, and... -
random dead things
11/28/08 03:08:07 | 0 Comments
The great thing about cats is the fact that they keep the mouse population down. Which in our house - with a history of 18 mice caught and released into the local park (plus one brutally murdered in a traditional trap, to my eternal horror) - is a good thing.
The horrible thing about cats is the fact that they play with the mouse that they've caught long after it ceases to be potential food.
Two days running I've had to remove a sodden cold carcass from Toby that he... -
Bodyshock
11/21/08 02:14:59 | 0 Comments
I've come to the conclusion that my body just doesn't like to be messed about with.
A few months ago I had an operation on my sinuses. It was a comparitively non invasive procedure to open up and drain my maxillary sinus. Apart from a momentary attack of anaesthetic terror (I was afraid I'd never wake up) the operation went just fine. I woke up mere seconds after I went under, but someone had moved the clock hands around 3 hours. It was oddly familiar coming down - I was... -
dwizzle
11/18/08 01:04:38 | 0 Comments
For a shining moment there, we almost had a proper autumn here in London. There was a glorious three weeks of dry crisp autumnal weather. Clear blue skies appeared overhead and crunchy brown and yellow leaves underfoot. Thankfully, equilibrium has returned. The weather has recovered its senses and started behaving normally. Now we can go outside and get thoroughly drenched in rain that is more like mist with attitude. The leaves on the ground now hide fetid and slimy surprises, like diaretic... -
A new addition to the family...
10/10/08 04:26:21 | 0 Comments
I'm proud to announce the arrival of a new bundle of joy to our family... the Mac Mini. Yes, "mini me" was turned on and set up at 10.30am this morning, and is happily pootling away on my PC's monitor. The PCs are somewhat put out at being disconnected from their only monitor, but we don't really consider them part of the family anyway...
Mini me joins evinrude (g5), girlie (imac), hiho, ichipod, pinkiepod and pauliepod (ipods) to make our lovely apple family... -
The Beckenham Fair
09/07/08 05:34:57 | 0 Comments
We've just got back from the Beckenham Town Fair, about £30 poorer, and frozen to the bone.
Take note that it's actually the first week of September, so you'd imagine if you went out wearing jeans, a jumper, coat and shoes and socks you'd be warm enough.
The grey drizzles meant that the park - usually packed in summer on a weekend - was practically empty. The vendors selling pancakes and hog roast probably didn't break even on their petrol... -
coffee shops are like weeds
09/06/08 11:28:50 | 0 Comments
Beckenham now has three major chain coffee shops. The number of coffee shops is only outstripped by the number of charity shops (which currently numbers at about 6, and I am really not sure what that says about us...)
A year ago the independent coffee shop closed down under the pressure of the new costa coffee, and a betting shop opened in its place. That was a tragedy. But the opening of Cafe Nero and Coffee republik is downright perplexing. Just how much of the stuff can one...
