Gifted Typist

… I tied the knot. We had a sulu-wearing Methodist minister. Very earnest. And five or six sulu-wearing “guests” who were Shanghai’ed in for the job. They were actually the bar and kitchen  staff at the little hotel where we were staying. The boss organized the minster for us and attendance for the bar staff [...]

For Earth Hour last night, we shut off the all the lights and turned off the computers. We lit the candles, put a fire on and got the blankets from the trunk downstairs. For the first half hour we sat in soft glow of the flickering light. We looked out the window to see if [...]

When I wrote this week’s column on Natasha Richardson, I had no idea about the terrible car crash that took our cousin and put her two kids in hospital. The update is that the kids are still in very serious condition, but hanging on. Their mum and Natasha died the same day. This makes you [...]

… it just blows you down and leaves you in an undignified haze. This blew me down this afternoon. She was a member of our extented family in England, a cousin by marriage, a kind person who invited us into her lovely home in the countryside on more than one Boxing Day, fed us delicious [...]

I hit the pool yesterday for the first time in 10 days. I wasn’t expecting it to be too painful.  Sure I had a few days off, but I was skiing and dog sledding.  Surely that would keep me fit. Ha. Hahahahaha. How wrong I was. It felt like there was no oxygen in the [...]

We had brilliant sunshine, teams of energetic huskies, scary moments with fast-approaching tree trunks, shrieking typists, laughing typists, maple toffee made in the snow and exhausted huskies.

… after a glorious week of dog-sledding and skiing in Newfoundland. I’m happy to report that I wasn’t eaten by the dogs, although I do appreciate the concern, Doc. There were a few crazy-arsed moments when the dogs took off and I was left in the sled with tree trucks approaching at speed. (I want [...]

Tell you more when I get back.  Meanwhile here is the link. In the meantime here is the GT podcast I’ve been secretly working on the past little while. You can find it here on iTunes. Haven’t got the WordPress plug-in working to listen directly here, but online casinothis link should get you to there. [...]

See my Herald column here. You’re 50, Dollface. You never looked so good. That face, those legs, the waist. And no double chin! At 50. But what about hot flashes? Hmmm, Babs? And liposuction? And Botox? Are you sure that 22-year old face and body of yours are entirely natural, Doll? Because people are talking. [...]

Just upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1. In the past this process has been painful. It has induced forms of mild psychosis in me. I have broken out in rashes, suffered night terrors and developed other pathologies. But not this time. It was painless thanks to those plug-ins I installed for dbase backups and upgrades. It was [...]

How did the blond break his leg raking leaves? He fell out of the tree. How do you change a blond’s mind? Blow in his ear. How do you keep a blond busy all day? Write “please turn over” on both sides of a piece of paper How do you make a blond laugh on [...]

See my column over here. People are saying “recession” but I’ve lived though recessions before and I don’t recall banks collapsing. Depression? That’s a mental health term, not an economic description. Besides, I’m not sure we’re there just yet. This is bad. But not that bad. I think we’re somewhere in between recession and depression. [...]

… and I didn’t even enter the contest. I had word this week that a map company shortlisted a photo I took of the New York Stock Exchange. The winning photo will be used in their guidebook. They found it on Flickr. I’m flattered and still a little baffled, but the cynic in me knows [...]

Here is your next edition of useless information to provide legal and calorie-free amusement: Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning, “containing arsenic.” Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, [...]

-Loose lips sink ships – US Office of War Information Tittle tattle lost the battle – UK Ministry of Information Keep mum, she’s not so dumb – UK Ministry of Information Be like Dad, keep mum -UK Ministry of Information Coughs and sneezes spread diseases -UK ministry of info They talked. This happened. Careless talk [...]