Thankyou to the fat little man on the rusty racing bike who must have puffed and wheezed his self down the road in an effort to overtake me as dangerously as possible, and having completed said act of bravado, slowed to an asthmatic crawl. Confronted by traffic (which I stayed in line with), he first wobbled into oncoming traffic, and then onto the footpath – causing families to take avoiding action.
I decided – after at least half a minute’s thought – to give Katherine Jenkins another try. She became incredibly famous during the time I worked in London – her face (and body) were emblazoned across billboards all over the city for months. She appeared from time to time on television – singing at New Year, at big football matches, and on various television chat shows. I hated her. Sure, she’s beautiful, but much of the time I thought she sounded like a trumpet rammed up a very large nose.
I just finished watching “Little Children” – Kate Winslet is lost, unhappy, and lonely – living in picket-fence middle America, and finds herself pursuing and becoming involved with parent from the playpark in a similar situation. The voice-over between major scenes of the movie reminds me of a modern fable; it is calming and unsettling at the same time. The story draws you in early in the movie, and then systematically messes with your head. It pulls at the loose threads of your personality.
It's Christmas Eve, and I am finally home for more than a couple of days after several months spent in a hotel with work. I had anticipated being at work today, but a list went around the company email system yesterday detailing who was going to be in and on-call. My absence from the list [...]
I’m finally home this evening after four days away with work. After ringing the doorbell, I heard excited shouts from two little girls who had been allowed to stay up late to see me. Our youngest ran back into the house on-sight shouting “Daddys home!”, except of course there was nobody to hear her. Perhaps [...]
With days left to go, I didn’t post anything yesterday. Crash bang wallop indeed.
I’m back in the office at work today, clearing paperwork, getting expenses paid, and sorting the various minutiae out. This afternoon will no doubt be back to the grindstone, neck deep in Javascript, Webservices, .NET and Microsoft SharePoint again. My work is [...]
I’m home from my first stint working away from home.
Arriving home, the house was empty, and I ended up doing what I had joked with a colleague about – washing up. A little while later there was a knock at the door, and two very sleepy little girls greeted me at the door.
No cheers, no [...]
You find me on arrival home from a walk into town – an eleventh hour dash to procure food for dinner – and a hearing of our eldest daughter reading from a book of her teacher’s choosing.
These few minutes are grabbed in passing. A moment of calm delimiting the mayhem of the day; a day [...]
We’ll be getting back in the car in a couple of hours time to travel home from my parents on the south west coast – a five hour car journey taking us through Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, and finally Buckinghamshire.
Tomorrow morning we will all wake up to the real world once more. A world [...]
© Cheese and Beans. He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.
