Category: Real Life
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Sponsored by Twilight
In March 2011, I misread a label whilst out shopping. Not to say that I have particularly poor eyesight, I misread the word ‘pencils’ for ‘incense’. Yes, I know they are nothing alike, but when your mind is focussed on the word ‘Twilight’, it’s an easy mistake to make. If you’re me. And in a…
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Fire and Ice: A New World Discovered
Reports are coming in of a newly discovered giant water-world, a mere 40 light years away from Earth. The planet is said to be over two and a half times bigger than Earth, and observations from the Hubble Telescope indicate that most of the planet’s mass is water. It is also said to have a…
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The Great Valentine’s Conspiracy
Warning: My Inner Romantic has had another go at writing a rhyme: There’s nothing that says “I Love You” moreThan an expensive card being shoved through your doorThe card makers are rubbing their hands in gleeSaying “Give this to your loved one, your money to me!”The restaurants are in on the conspiracy tooBuy a meal…
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So much time, not enough to do…
Now, wouldn’t that be lovely? Lazing around, doing ‘whatever’, ‘whenever’… Unfortunately, at present, it’s a bit of the opposite in the realm of little old I, and in Blogland in particular, where the more familiar version of the quote ‘so much to do, so little time’ is oh so prevalent. However, I must take some…