alison
- Name: Alison
- Age: 39
- Gender: Female
- Location: London UK
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writing for the sake of it
11/14/07 13:52:25 | 3 Comments
Today I finally started writing a novel.
I know a lot of people who say that they've got a book in them. I've got a few in me. But I honestly thought that those books - ideas and magical thoughts that played about in my head when I was anywhere but somewhere where I could write (the car, for example) - would stay in my head forever.
I think most of all I was afraid that if I started writing I'd find that my ideas made crap books. Or that they were full of holes,... -
As summer closes, the allotment gets going
10/19/07 06:02:28 | 2 Comments
I haven't really updated you with all the goings on at the allotment (the whole two beds!). That's mostly because the weather has been totally shite, all my tomatoes got blight, and I need to end this sentence in flight...
With apologies to Chris W for the poetic miasma there!
Actually, the biggest problem has been that I kept taking photos on my mobile phone. And until now have had no way to get them off. Turned out it was a processing error. My brain wasn't... -
The trouble with Freecycle...
10/17/07 03:42:21 | 1 Comments
Is that when things are free, people don't value them. And they don't seem to value the time of the person who is happy to provide them something for nothing.
I am giving away a 2 and 3 seater sofa. They are in good condition for 9 year old sofas. The covers are washable and they are in great condition. And lots of people have emailed and asked about them. But the people who were coming today (tomorrow, saturday, thursday again, friday and then today again) have just cancelled... -
A fine day's shopping
10/14/07 11:15:48 | 0 Comments
So today was a fun day. I rolled out of bed at 8am, missing a full one hour of my lie in, poured my cappucino into a handy travelling cup replete with lid, cleared out George*, programmed Kenº and met up with a haggard band of mums at C---- H----- station. Ready for the Fairways shopping extravaganza.
You've heard of Bluewater? Well this is nothing like it. Tucked behind an industrial area, with reject trolleys from a variety of supermarkets is Fairways. It's a cash and carry... -
Men, born stupid or learned behaviour?
10/13/07 02:49:40 | 0 Comments
My husband just rang me from WHSmith, to ask me where the sticky back plastic was (which I'd sent him out to buy). My response? "Don't they KNOW?"
What makes men do this? Why, in preference to asking the people who work there, would he ring me and expect me to know where a commodity has been stocked in a stationary shop I rarely go in? What is it about asking people questions that makes men run a mile, and come away empty handed rather than open their... -
Rest in Peace, Dori
10/12/07 01:29:37 | 1 Comments
I've just found out that an online friend of mine died a few months ago. I am totally shocked that someone so vibrant and brash as Dori could be gone, even though I knew how long she'd battled breast cancer. Dori was an ezmod when I was an ezmod. We never met in person, but we talked a lot when she was still working for ezboard. She left ez because of the cancer.
I am feeling horribly guilty too, since the last time I spoke to her in person was the beginning of this year, and... -
about magic knickers and the royal mail
10/11/07 02:31:08 | 0 Comments
When you've had two kids and you're not a celebrity, you have to accept that a flat stomach is forever going to be an unattainable dream. Which is why magic knickers are the best invention since breadslicers. But not all magic knickers are as magic as the others. I've got one pair which works well up top - it doesn't roll down, it ends at the ribs and there is not a muffin top in sight. But at the other end, the legs holes leave a lot to be desired. They don't leave a vpl,... -
Member management is finally born
07/22/07 02:56:32 | 0 Comments
It's been a long path to our final destination, but the new member management system is finally released. This is my baby - a lot of blood sweat and tears went into getting this just right. To balance the power with ease of use was a tricky job. The specs went through many incarnations with different ideas, and some elements were dropped at later stages. But for the most part, what has been released is sound. It's powerful and its flexible. And despite looking complex at first glance, I... -
Slow worms and mice
07/18/07 04:58:56 | 0 Comments
I was trying to dismantle the rockery the other day, rock by rock. It's not so much a rockery, as a slag heap dumped when they built the conservatory. It has an amazing collection of plants in it though. Throughout the whole year different things kept coming up almost like a flower lottery.
But I got quite a surprise when I pulled up one rock, and saw a scaly body beneath. I poked it, and out came a snake like creature. But the tail was different. It was rounded. Although I'd... -
Row row your leeks...
07/15/07 12:53:31 | 4 Comments
The title is poor, I know. But I am so proud of my nice rows of leeks, tomatoes, aubergine, peppers, chilly, and asparagus peas. The nicely turned bed looks very neat and weed free (for now.)
The leeks I seeded before we went to Sydney, they were desperate to get out of the seed tray.
Using the dibber was slightly more tricksy. Every time I tried to stick
the leeks in the hole, the dirt...
