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And may 2012 bring you and your loved ones peace and happiness! Michelle, with a resolution to be blogging regularly about red tape, Kitteh Princess Pippa, Trouble with Travel, and many more little quirks in life that thwart or delight . . .
Someone I have never met, and wished I had, and loved and admired deeply, died yesterday. That would be the completely fabulous Christopher Hitchens, whether I agreed with him or not on different issues. Christopher Hitchens. Christopher Hitchens. Christopher Hitchens. I want to say his name many times, do NOT forget his name. I can’t [...]
Millions of avid reader’s of the wonderful, incomparable Sir Terry Pratchett (myself included) will instantly recognize the title I have borrowed from him for my latest blog piece. These infamous words are written on a piece of card that witch Esmerelda Weatherwax (who is good at doing witchy spells but is not so good at [...]
It had gotten to the point where I was equipping everyone in my UK household with protective ear gear every time I ran the old washing machine, because the spin cycle sounded like a really loud, ear-grinding, pneumatic drill. It was awful. The whole house would shake. And by the way, do you know how [...]
No, I didn’t really get sucked in by a black hole, because if I had I wouldn’t be back here in blogland, but it’s been so long that I am sticking with the black-hold-being-sucked-in-by thing. Metaphorically speaking. Anyway, hello. But about the cat eating my homework. . . Since Kitteh Princess Pippa came to live [...]
Otherwise known as More Trouble With Travel. So, last Wednesday I left our Rotterdam apartment and set off for Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, and when I arrived nice and early for my flight I discovered that the plane was broken. Yes, the plane scheduled for my flight was broken. The airline chartered another plane from London [...]
And now for something completely different. . . The very nice Melina Kantor asked me to join the Chick Lit Writers for a guest blog. So I did! My little tale of how I was thwarted by multiple persons in my efforts to either read or write romance can be found here. Hope you enjoy [...]
So, on Friday night I was due to fly to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, then get the train to Rotterdam where I would spend an extended weekend in our apartment. Oh, no! I hear you all cry. You know what that means, don’t you, Michelle? It will be exactly like that other time you tried to [...]
First with the bad news to get it out of the way. When I say bad news, it was potentially good news. It was potentially fab news. At least, that’s what I thought. This is what happened… This morning I got up, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, everything was bathed in Spring, [...]
First off, please join me in sending a big yay and big hello to my friend Alyssa Day. She and her family have just arrived back home in America after a difficult time in, and journey back from, Japan. BIG YAY and BIG HELLO, Alyssa! (And big hugs and positive thoughts to all of our [...]
