School reunion…
Saturday 29 April 2006
And people think the education system is doomed… Deffry Vale High School Would you send your child there?
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And people think the education system is doomed… Deffry Vale High School Would you send your child there?
Continue readingI was talking last night with one of my neighbours, Kathy, who has looked after Pepper on many occasion when I’ve been away for a weekend, or off on my foreign holidays for longer. She was of course very sad…
Continue readingWarning: Those of a religious persuasion may not want to read on. I was watching the 1973 film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar a couple of week’s ago (seeings as ITV were very nice and screened it…
Continue readingIn light of recent events, I wonder if The Archers will feature a case of bird flu? At the risk of prolonging Mike Tucker’s depression, maybe it could strike down Betty’s hens – and even take ‘fake’ Hayley with them…
Continue readingIn advance of the release of their fourth album the now 3-piece Estonian girl rock band (famously discovered by me by ordering blind off the internet after seeing them on the front cover of Tallinn Airport magazine), the first single…
Continue reading1. Describe your ‘ideal’ woman. I think that I am more of a personality person than looks. Kind and smiley, would be musts. There should be something about the eyes too I think. Someone who is honest and trustworthy. Someone…
Continue readingFirst off, let me say thanks to you all those who commented on my last post. You are all such kind, thoughtful people, on what has been an odd sort of day. Today has definitely been the day that I…
Continue readingI came downstairs this morning to discover that during the night, Pepper has died. He’s lying across the end of the sofa, comfortable like he always used to. But this morning he was cold and still. I’ve just got in…
Continue readingFirst meringues Originally uploaded by shepline on 16 Apr ’06, 11.57pm BST PST. Granpy used to make them for us whenever we visited. I guess the baton may have passed to me… 😉
Continue readingFreyja visits Grannie’s Magic Woods Originally uploaded by shepline on 12 Apr ’06, 10.47pm BST PST. What the English weather couldn’t provide, a little bit of shepline magic has been able to reproduce… The family met up on Chorleywood Common…
Continue readingI’ve been meaning to write posts every day for all of the last week, but I somehow haven’t had the time. That said, I have been spending an awfully lot of the time at my laptop. My writing has been…
Continue readingToday was one of those early Spring days that warms your heart and feeds your soul. From glorious sunrise, to winding back the sunroof for the first time this year on the way home from work. Something is working, and…
Continue readingAt 15:29 on Saturday 1 April 2006, I finished chapter five (or part five, if I subsequently do decide to sub-divide the titled parts with numbered chapters) of Blood & Fire. And so, I stand at a kind of precipice;…
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