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Overheard on the train…

February 15th, 2010 at 7:35 am » Comments (1)

“If you overcook crème brûlée does it turn into fudge?”
Now I’m pretty sure if you overcook crème brûlée it could turn into a number of things – but fudge wouldn’t be one of them.
Then again, I’ve been wrong before!


This is what parenting feels like

September 24th, 2009 at 7:21 am » Comments (4)

This quote has been going through my head a lot lately:
I’m out here for you! You don’t
know what it’s like to be me out
here for you. It is an up-at-dawn
pride-swallowing siege that I will
never fully tell you about!
                                                                                                                       Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise)
He may have been talking there about the pitfalls of being a sports agent, [...]


And so our summer begins early

November 26th, 2008 at 6:00 am » Comments (2)

“There is a marvellous peace in not publishing”
J. D. Salinger
As of now I am on holidays. I am setting this post to publish the very moment our plane is supposed to be taxiing out to the runway. Just me and the kids until next week. Get some quiet, quality time in with my parents before we hit [...]