Monthly Archives: February 2012

Holly is a window shopper

  Shopping, through the eyes of Holly Elizabeth, 6 months old (nearly).   “Mmmm.. I quite like the look of that.”     “Maintain eye contact, do not blink.”   “How much? Try the disinterested look… maybe haggle?”   “I’m friendly and approachable, what do you mean I can’t have a discount!?”   “Walk away,…

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Honesty?

  I love this blogging lark. I like a lot of aspects of it, writing blogs, reading blogs, blogging! Sometimes though, it’s hard to be honest. I know they say honesty is the best policy, but is that really true? How often are we actually honest? People ask a question, and we say what they…

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The 411 on February 14

  As a kid, I remember sitting in the back of my dad’s car singing Tina Turner’s ‘What’s Love got to do, got to do with it, What’s Love but a second hand emotion….’ In my little voice it was probably very cute, now not so much. The reason I remember it is because when I went…

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Hold onto your happy thoughts.

  Have you seen the film Hook? Stephen Spielberg? 1991? Rufio, Rufio, Rufioooooo? For all of those that haven’t seen the film, there is an amazing character called Tootles. Through most of the film Tootles is seen looking for his marbles. He’s “Lost his marbles” you see. We presume he has mentally lost his marbles…

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Drum Roll please

  Da daaaaaaaa! That’s the noise you make when you’ve been working on something for a while. Something you’re really proud of. Something you’ve had covered up and then, you pull off the covers and say “Da daaaaaa!”. Hoping someone else goes, “Oooooo, that’s nice”… or at least “mmm, yes, ok.” So here we are,…

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