Originally posted on Scars, Tears and Training Bras:
“It’s tragic, what happened to Gazza,” I say. “All that talent and he ends up like…” “Well, he made some bad choices,” HorseBoy says, spearing a green olive with a toothpick. We’re at the restaurant underneath the train tracks. He’s made it here – all the way…
Monthly Archives: December 2015
By Urban Decay Soon will have great Eye Make-Up. Happy Thursday everyone!
New Year Resolutions 1. Sleep more. 2. Go to bed earlier. 3. See friends more often/ regularly. 4. Be kind to Mum. 5. Be even kinder to Dad. 6. Spend time with Mr Fluffypants. 7. Be gentle, understanding and adoring to Seb. And not to talk too much at him. “How about: don’t talk to […]
Originally posted on Scars, Tears and Training Bras:
Waking up, I look at my watch. Six o’clock. Of course, now that’s it’s upon us, I really can’t be bothered to have a bath, get dressed and go to a party. It’s dark outside. The fluffy monster snoozes in his pink chair: apricot paws dangling over…
“That’s all healing up nicely,” says Jackie the plastic surgery nurse after she’s peeled off the steristrips. Clipping the plastic stitches with her tweezers, she sticks pink micropore tape over my almost-healed scars. “That’s a relief,” Mum says, looking a bit less miserable for the first time in days. “Oh good,” I say, looking down […]
China 1925. Toby Jones, Naomi Watts and Edward Norton are in a remote Chinese mountain town in the midst of a cholera epidemic. They have opium, bamboo forests and possibly pandas, although haven’t seen one yet. They are carried everywhere in litters on the shoulders of local people, which seems an excellent way to […]
Wake up drenched with sweat but freezing. “Is that sweat or wee in your bed,” Mum says, at 6.45am or so, when we get up in time for 8.15am Spin. “Sweat, this time,” I say, pulling on my padded-bottomed cycling shorts, fluoro gym top, Mum’s white snow-boots, trousers, scarf, gloves and goat . “So […]
Since the 1950s, scientists have been trying to model possible scenarios why some animals have certain patterns of stripes. For example, instead of having just a black canvas, tigers have parallel stripes that are evenly spaced and perpendicular to the spine. In quest for the answer, researchers from Harvard Medical School have assembled a range… […]
Happy Boxing Day! That’s my outfit yesterday. Today wore these for Two Hour Boxing Day Spin: 1. Look at the attached photo: Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a literary twist. 2. A present from my cousin yesterday. Cocktails include: Romeo and Julep Huckleberry Sin Rye and Prejudice Love in the Time of […]
1. Happy Christmas from lunch with Lily and her family and canine nephew! 2. Running round the three gardens with this beagle person: 3. Am having fun. 4. It’s nearly lunchtime: sprouts, red cabbage, tofurkey, parsnips, potatoes… 5. Did sprouts My Self. Am Amazing Underchef. 6. Not puking anymore. 7. Wearing this: 8. […]
