Today I finally broke down and bought a new set of sauce pans. They are light-weight, cheap aluminium pans but, despite that, they are considerably better than the pans that my flat was furnished with. It’s something I’ve been thinking about doing since I first moved in, but I’ve been a bit uncomfortable with the [...]
Archive for random
Free drugs
I’m not new to the Scottish National Health Services (NHS), having had my first experience with them about 10 years ago, but I guess that my American upbringing is just so overpowering that I’m still taken aback from time-to-time with the strangeness of socialised health care. And today just happened to be one of those [...]
Random thoughts: Challenging things
Random thoughts—Week 2: Write a list of 10 challenges you’ve faced in the last three months. Pick one and write about it. Wow. Ten challenges in three months? I guess that means I’m going to have to define challenges a little more loosely than I normally would. But let’s see where I get, huh? My [...]
Random thoughts: Top 50 no-gos
Random thoughts—Week 1: List 50 things I’ll never do. Climb Mount Everest Compete in a sport professionally Give birth (sadly…) Celebrate 50 years of marriage Eat monkey brains (but in general I’m up for trying new/different foods) Become a nun (but I wanted to at one point in my life) Go deep-water diving Have cosmetic [...]
Cheap [or free] booze
I used to buy expensive booze. I had a collection of fine wines and expensive whiskies. I had top-shelf Cognacs and the best small batch Bourbons. And I wouldn’t have thought twice about opening a $40 bottle of wine for no reason other than I wanted a glass of wine. But I couldn’t take it [...]
Heads will [not] roll!
Hey! Guess what! It’s ‘Share a Random Memory for No Reason Other Than It Popped into My Head Day’! Aren’t you glad you stopped by to read such rubbish? Sure you are! So here goes. I was seven or eight years old, playing down at the ponds around the edge of the neighbourhood. I remember [...]
Random thoughts: A challenge
Two weeks ago I shared a post that was determined by random. It was a great way to find some inspiration for writing and the randomness of it all entertained me. When I was talking to Rebecca today, we decided that we’d have a bit of fun with the format and see if we could [...]
Like the back of my hand
How many times have we been told that someone is so certain of their directions because they know the place like they know the back of their hand? For most of us, I imagine the answer would be countless times. Personally, I don’t know that I’ve ever said it—mostly because I think it’s a stupid [...]
Fun, all wrapped up
I started this post a few weeks ago with the intention of talking about how Starbursts have changed since I was a kid. But I never got around to finishing it because I didn’t really know what I could say on the topic, other than how awesome the new wrapper design is. Then my sister [...]
Blank slate; inspiration sought
I’ve spent the last couple of hours searching for inspiration. For what, I don’t quite know. I’ve found lists of daily adventures, blogs meant to inspire you to write a book, and all sorts of things that would make a prostitute blush. (Sadly, that happens with Google searches sometimes!) In the end, I found the inspiration I [...]
