It doesn’t appear to be my week. First, one of our skylights started to leak during the heavy rain yesterday (we think it might have been due to some sort of grit/debris stopping the window closing properly – at least the seal seems intact – we can’t be sure until the next bout of rain) [...]

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I thought my bank account was looking a bit healthier than it ought to be. There were a few unreconciled transactions in my accounts software back from February as well, but I just assumed that I’d paid them on Visa rather than on debit card as I’d thought. Then there was the cash withdrawals that [...]

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WHY do they put those pillars in car parks? You know the ones – the narrow metal girders (to save space) but then some evil bastard planner gave a twisted smirk and made the bases really wide, just low enough to be impossible to see. Then, to add insult to injury, they use bright yellow [...]

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Most people who know me consider me to be a fairly organised and methodical person. I have routines. I have places things are kept. I usually keep on top of my paperwork. I just have two achilles heels: keys and purses. They never seem to get put down in their correct homes if I have [...]

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Things were not going well for our hero. Getting Bob home went okay with minimal bumps, but he appeared to have a scale missing once we got him in the tank – we can only assume that it got knocked at the shop during transfer from net to plastic bag. However, this wasn’t the big [...]

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*CRUNCH* *SQUELCH* “Oh shit, I’ve just trodden on a snail.” The footpath outside the front of our house is flanked on both sides (is that tautology?) with low bushes that are home to a host of creepy crawlies including it’s most popular residents: worms, slugs and snails. When Akra Jr was two years old, it [...]

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I suppose it had to happen to me someday. Me, who virtually lives on a computer. Me, who used to work in a bank and gets frustrated when people don’t understand how to use cheques properly. Me, who is a gadget freak. I had to ask someone how the paying in machine worked at our [...]

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If you decide to chuck your body puff in the wash to give it a quick spruce up, remember to remove it before putting the whole load on the tumble dry cycle. Fortunately, the meltdown of plastic was very self-contained and didn’t destroy the load it was in. I was lucky. This time.

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… that I could possibly do anything so stupid, but here I am, overcoming my embarrassment… confessing. I am not a confident driver, not a particularly good one either, but until now I have never had an accident that was my fault (although if I’m honest there’s been a couple of times I have been [...]

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I feel very very very stupid. Remember me complaining that I was cursed with online shopping at the moment? That my Blackstar order had gone astray and I’d had to get them to send me out a new Buffy DVD? Well it arrived today. Bloody good service considering I’d only reported it yesterday lunchtime. Opened [...]

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