Don’t quote me

The wonderful and talented Robin of the Pensieve is hosting this week’s Fun Monday. And she says, ‘please share words that inspire and motivate you–brief or bloviatory, silly or serious, from great world leaders to last night’s Comedy Central…from a Hallmark greeting card to your favorite book. Choose one, choose many; let the quotes [...]

Smarter than your average bird and Fun Monday sign up

Once there was a little pigeon called Simon.

One day, fed up of his pigeon coloured feathers, of the dark roof top grey, and the pale pavement gray, and the shimmering oily green at his throat, Simon decided to go shopping.
While most of us would think that quite unusual, Simon had no concerns about his [...]

This is not the finished product

Ahhh, we’ve just realised how bad this looks through internet explorer.
And all because Microsoft won’t accept web standards – wonderful isn’t it?
I used Internet Explorer until Ashley introduced me to Mozilla Firefox. You can download it for free here. I started using it about 6 months ago and I’ve never looked back. [...]

Minimalist, moi?

Hello everybody.
Thanks so much for all your comments and emails and well wishes. You are all amazing.
It feels really weird being in this more streamlined and uncluttered form, like going out without your makeup, or kind of naked.
I don’t go out naked by the way, in case you are wondering. The world is [...]

Miss Beaufoix’s big news

As some of you will know, I am not working at the moment.
Two years ago my head went pop. Yes that’s how it felt. There was no big explosion, no huge catastrophe that sent me over the edge, I just stopped being able to act anymore. I couldn’t be the person [...]

What city do you belong in?

I nabbed this from my mate Rosie. She is al posh and Parisian, but actually I am happy with my result as it is very me.

You Belong in London

A little old fashioned, and a little modern.
A little traditional, and a little bit punk rock.
A unique soul like you needs a city that offers everything.
No [...]

A lesson with Ms Beaufoix

Lovely Swampwitch is this week’s Fun Monday hostess, and she wants us to:
Choose a topic/theme and make an alphabetical list of words, phrases, photos…however you want to share your topic/theme.
Topics can range from pet-peeves, vacations, people who have influenced your life, jokes, favorites, philosopher’s quotes/sayings, birds, flowers…anything. The sky is the limit. Your ABC list [...]

Jail bait relatives

It’s happened at last. I knew it would only be a matter of time till a member of my family ended up behind bars, and to be honest, I’m not surprised it turned out to be this one.

Her list of crimes include;
Vandalism – well it wasn’t me who did this.

Violence – [...]

Funny, if you can see it…

Ahhhhh. I am having problems with youtube yet again. I’m attempting to post a video that made Mr B and I howl, but I don’t know if it will appear or not. It may even appear in triplicate.
Below is what I wrote, and the video I’d like to share is here I [...]

Public inconvenience

Example 1
Miss E is 2.5 years old.
We’re in the public toilets at a restaurant. There’s a queue.
Miss E: Mummy are you doing a poo or a wee?
Me: “I don’t know E, but we don’t normally ask people that, it makes them feel a bit silly.”
Miss E: “You’re doing a poo aren’t [...]