That was the year that was: February 2007

February brings the snow, makes the toes and fingers glow. First decent snowfall in bloody ages and it happens on the weekend we’ve arranged to go away. I rush home from work to collect Mr TLC, but by the time we’ve loaded the car, there is so much snow that we can’t make it to […]

That was the year that was: January 2007

January is a fairly quiet month in the TLC household. We eat out, drink and are generally merry. January is also a month of writing essays for my French course, assessing my own students’ work and racing to meet deadlines. A very busy, but not always very exciting time!

Black Cat, White Christmas

Black Cat

White Christmas

No snow? Why not make your own? Either make an animated snowflake or make and send a snowflake. (Thanks to Ms Caven’s blog for the links) […]

Biscuit Aisle

A new phrase has entered the vocabulary of the Three Legged Cat household. Biscuit Aisle.We went to the supermarket on Friday, expecting it to be packed with people (like us) doing the last of the pre-Christmas shopping. It was pretty busy, but not too bad, until we reached the biscuit aisle. Then we got stuck […]

Why I love Christmas

I know that not everyone likes Christmas, I know that some people positively detest it, but for me it’s one of my favourite times of year. It has nothing to do with the religious festival (I have no belief in a benign god who wishes us to celebrate his birthday). It has nothing to do […]

Two Recipes

A Lazy Sunday

Ingredients2 relaxed cats1 interesting book1 splendid breakfast1 pair of comfortable shoes1 splendid dinner2 pints of Mr John Hull’s excellent beer1 pub quiztea and coffee

Method1. Relax, have a lie in and read the interesting book whilst listening to the relaxed cats purring.2. Cook and eat a splendid breakfast, linger over tea and […]

A Wizard Shop

“Wizard!” said Mr TLC on hearing the news. No, he hadn’t been reading Enid Blyton, but he had just received a phone call to say that his new toy was awaiting collection. The long awaited Gordon-Smith Classic T (which for those of us who speak English, is a guitar) had arrived at Wizard Guitars.

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I am Scrooge (apparently)

Apologies in advance to anyone who isn’t, but as of this afternoon I am officially taking it easy for two weeks – and very splendid it is too. Relaxed smug mode has set in.Actually, I’m quite relieved that this term has finished, it seems to have been more and more of an uphill struggle with […]

You must be crackers

I read today that Brits had been voting in a survey to find Britain’s worst cracker joke. “Well no one asked me to vote,” I thought, slightly huffily, until I discovered that the survey was conducted by Nuts magazine. According to 200 of their ‘readers’ (if I may use that description here), the top 10 […]

Boxing Mismatch

An enormous box arrives. How exciting, I wonder what it could be… I’m not expecting any enormous boxes. Perhaps it’s a Christmas present? It must be something really big. It can’t just be that new mouse I ordered can it?

Oh, obviously it can.

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