I am feeling upbeat today. Why, you might ask? Because the Christmas-New Year idleness is over. That is, I don’t mean to say that Christmas is all about doing nothing, because, how shall I put it, however modern and workaholic we women might be today, we are still the principle purveyors of Christmas cheer and […]
I have been following daily the unfolding migrant humanitarian crisis and like many other people I have mixed feelings. I wish they weren’t turned back from Europe’s borders and left to fend for themselves. I am thinking of our aging nations and of the chance these new, dynamic and success-hungry people might open up for […]
I was talking to a friend the other day. He complained a lot. Of course, neither of these two facts is special in itself in any way. But his face, our conversation and his complaining have lodged themselves firmly in my mind. So I thought I must get it out of my system here. A […]
I look at my fridge … ‘You’re so dumb,’ I say of it in my thoughts with affection. ‘Even the ice maker and all your freezer programmes don’t make you half-intelligent.’ And my washing machine? Blissfully open to all the errors one can make washing things. Just recently it washed my jumper so the jumper […]