Novel Way To Enduce Childbirth..

..Or funny Charlie #2.

My sister's about to produce her second child anytime now -- this time a girl. While Madeleine Ann, a sensible girl's name has been selected, the 'bump' has, for many months, been nicknamed after a commonal-garden vegetable.



So with the arrival of a long-awaited sister imminent, my nephew Charlie greets the day by shouting ‘Come out Cabbage!’ at his mum’s belly every morning.

Precious.

Blog 2.Bollox

I've been scooting around the wibbly-wobbly instead of working recently (well, it's my bat, ball and game, so poo to you..) and have happened upon rather a lot of earnest outpourings of a Stephen Hawkins nature from many proffesional types.

For instance, go to the Friendly Ghost link on the right and check-out all the links there. (NB: 'Caspar' is an ex-colleague, damn fine writer and adept, if quizzical blogger). What d'ya get? Mucho naval gazing and angst-ridden bogs authored by many, many commies (communications peeps) about the working world they inhabit.

One day I'll learn how to hot-link these things in the text.

Eeks, it's only a job and most of it silly PR at that. To hear them chunter so passionately about drivvel-dressed-as-consequence is really quite amusing. Hey -- It ain't HBR, you know..?

All I ever post about is my rickety little house, cuddly dog, P and beloved Chel-WUss-Ee.

I'm now overcome with smugness in the knowledge that my priorities seem properly placed.

But then only P, Alex and RJB read the thing anyway, so unlikely to cause much offence or grace the pages of PR Wank.

S'ppose everyone has their own motivations to scribble.. Dumpling's, like mine, is a homely-sort of missive of recipies and pussy cats. Goodwin's [sadly locked-down to the NFI] gonzo 'Fear And Loathing In Dubai' provides tales of debauched excess in the desert. (Ha -- Henry Goes To Barca :-)) PJ and Penny are long-resting, and Alex hasn't yet got past homepage design selection. There's even one eejit out there who list songs everyday..

Ho hum. Off to muse in florid tones on the critical strategic importance of scissors and sticky tape in the modern global business environment, or some such. HBR it might be..

Savage Garden

Has it really been over a month since that last post? Heck, time flies and much has happened since then.

Went on holiday and the garden was something akin to an overgrown mud bath (pre-Glastonbury too). Return, and it's fit for Homes and Gardens. ..Well, the 'Gardens' bit anyway.


Hey -- it might be raining ALL THE TIME, but it's good for the new plants ;-)


We'll make it into the 'Homes' part of the mag too in about three/four weeks when the builders are done sacking the place and have completed the rebuilding.

Durr -- It didn't occur to me that we'd be without water/washing facilities for the duration of a bathroom redesign and re-fit. So off to the country a few miles up the Chiltern Line for a week or so to maintain regular bathing routines and avoid having our BO becoming a public health issue for us, friends, colleagues and London's general citizenry.

What else has been going on? Oh yeah, P is in the throes of planning to build/do-up a house on our idyllic Grecian hideaway, Kastellorizo. ..More of that in another post.