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Month: March 2007

School-friends

That’s probably a misnomer. School competitors is far more like it. And the great thing about the internet is that you can track them down. If they have a public profile or a not-too-common name. I don’t have a public profile, but I do have a common name. If you key in my name, you […]Read Post ›

Is someone watching me?

I don’t mean watching over me, or watching out for me. Is someone out there watching me – or us? I thought I would do a pea pilaf today. Sadly when it came to chucking the rice in the pan it appeared I had used it all up. So I shot out of the door […]Read Post ›

Work colleagues

Don’t you just love ’em? I’m not talking about the ones where the relationship stops just short of open warfare, as you jostle for prestige and promotion. Or the ordinary back-stabbers. Or even the seriously irritating incompetent ones. No, I’m talking about the nice helpful ones – who are just lacking that bit of confidence. […]Read Post ›

Winter jasmine

Although it’s called winter jasmine, to be honest it’s like spring here now. The winter jasmine smells beautiful, day and night, and is full of flowers. One of my neighbours went past yesterday when I was watering the garden, and told me how pretty I looked. I preened myself, and then she added (in case […]Read Post ›

That elusive job

This is his story. All the way from the Valleys (South Wales – I keep having to remember the internet is global). Don’t forget the accent, now then, or whatever they say with that sing-song sort of voice. Over to him: I will never forget that day. There were only three of us called into […]Read Post ›

Off to Madrid

No, not us, some Spanish guy. Helpful Partner was on dog walking duty today as it was too windy for me. Dust in contact lenses and all that. Anyway as he’s wandering down the track he meets a woman who was busy emptying half the contents of her house into one of the communal rubbish […]Read Post ›

Post Script to Agua de Valencia

Helpful Partner has just read my post. And given me some kind feedback and some not so kind. He has kindly told me I didn’t look ten years older when I staggered red-eyed out of the toilet. But that everyone in the bar could hear me for the ten minutes that I was crying in […]Read Post ›

Agua de Valencia

I will always remember getting to 40. How could I forget? Men seem to worry about reaching 30, and 50, but for me 40 was the one that made the difference. There is no way you can kid yourself any more that you are that bright pretty young woman who has just left university. Even […]Read Post ›

Neighbours (1)

I don’t really need to say any more, do I? To be honest we like ours and – apart from learning Spanish – they have been helpful in lots of ways. Feeding us, for example, as though we were little waifs and strays. “Here we are Catalina, my family isn’t too keen on the bean […]Read Post ›

Sarah

For some years before we met he used to babysit for his sister. He got on well with his nephew and niece. After we married, we stayed with his sister and her husband, and their two children. The children seemed nice enough to me, I was clearly a bit of an interloper, but they weren’t […]Read Post ›

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