The day before we left, Miss Lashes begged me to have this photo taken to show us all having a great time. (really???) Sometimes you just have to fake it ’till you make it. … More Throwback Thursday: Holiday from Hell
‘unexpected item in the bagging area’
no matter how innocent the error is, I translate the robotic voice to this.
‘thieving piece of scum on self service checkout 4 is trying to nick a reduced pot of hummus’
and they are talking about me.
… More Shopping, not for the faint of heart
I stopped the mower and called Orkney Beef to tell him the cow was looking at me funny and I was too scared to carry on. Needless to say Orkney Beef took not a blind bit of notice and told me the cow probably felt the same way about me. … More Lessons in cutting the grass
‘can someone phone my phone’
This is my most used statement in the world. I’m an habitual loser but sadly not in the weight sense. … More Lessons I never seem to learn
The dog has now eaten so much of the hens’ magic laying food I’m expecting her to start laying eggs any day. …. … More Keeping chickens and dogs.
So it seems I’ve reached that stage in life where your secrets are perfectly safe with me simply because I will forget whatever you told me within seconds of you saying it. Based on my packing to come away this weekend you would think that anyway. I’ll start at the beginning. Every year a group … More Sorry, what was I saying?
A few years ago my parents moved into their new home in Orkney having relocated a few months after I did. They had been living in rented accommodation for a while and finally made it to their new house. A friend from South had wanted to send them a card to welcome them to their new … More Only in Orkney
Never again That’s what I said last time we took the overnight boat and there were no cabins left and ended up having to ‘sleep’ sitting up in a chair. However, for reasons too long and complicated to write we ended up on the overnight boat again last night and once again, in spite of … More Travel tales
‘He can find the fridge so won’t starve provided he can complete stage two which is opening the fridge and moving things around until the food item ends up in his hand, … More Leaving them home alone
If Facebook was real life I’d over hear two people I vaguely know talking, and if it made me laugh I would walk up to them, stick my thumb up and say ‘I like this’ I’d walk into shops and shout I LIKE YOUR STUFF then tell other people I like their stuff in the hopes of winning … More If Facebook was real life
