I can barely string together a decent post these days. For some reason it is becoming increasingly hard to sit here in front of the screen and let the words just come. They used to, spilling from the mysterious recesses of my brain, and now I’m in a drought.
I could blame the holidays. Ironic, as Easter […]

I think I am removed enough from my rather strict religious upbringing to celebrate a birthday party on our Holy Day (Good Friday) without worrying too much about the potential sacrilegious repercussions this might cause.
To explain: Once upon a time I would’ve gone to mass, eaten all the correct foods and then settled in for an […]

A neighbour was insane kind enough to give the kids an Easter present this afternoon. Keep it! Keep it! she said in her thick Mediterranean accent. No eat until Sunday.
So of course as soon as she left the driveway we tucked into that bad boy.
Until Adam came along and confiscated it. Boo hiss!
Then, as I was putting […]

Remember I said recently that I am not hung up on material possessions? 
Hang on, I told a lie: I have this photograph (well, a reproduction) framed on my bedroom wall and if it ever broke I’d be reasonably heartbroken.
I believe this photograph was taken in 1897, the year Bram Stoker first published Dracula. It is the the very same Abbey […]

We recently had old friends visit as they were passing through town on a road trip. And as you can tell from the pictures below, my friend B is a much better shot than I am.

Come on over to Kim’s for the latest installment!

“So how much do you want cut off him today?” the hairdresser asked me.
Riley was seated between us, his hands lost beneath the black plastic cape she’d just wrapped around his neck. He would only stay still for so long.
“I want it all off; get the shavers out. Give him a number four.”
The hairdresser looked […]