Those of you who enjoyed the little gems I have gleaned from the book The Household Physician (1874, updated 1907), namely avoiding lawn tennis when you’ve got the painters in and dousing hysterical women with water,
The Gallery – Trees – Which do yew like best?
Box Trees, Les Jardins de Marqueyssac, Dordogne, France Cypress Trees, Retiro Park, Madrid Husband being an arse in a tree, somewhere in the Cotswolds The theme for this week’s Gallery is, funnily enough, Trees. To
A conversation I wish I’d never started
I think it’s an age thing, the inablity to finish sentences or remember names or even simple words. My son despairs of me and we have these ridiculous conversations where he tries to work out
Mum’s Going to Copenhagen
Hotel Kong Arthur, Copenhagen We’ve been debating for some weeks now about where to go during the Easter holidays. Last year Rory went skiing in Italy with the school so Dougie and I had a romantic
The Gallery – One Word
We saw this lorry on a French motorway a few years ago. Husband: “That’ll do nicely!” Me: “What, every day? You’ll be lucky!” The prompt for this week’s Gallery is ‘One Word’. Pop over to
Hysterical Women.
My last post, Have you got the Painters in?, was so popular I have been urged to provide more information from my 1907 book, The Household Physician. Well, truth be told, a couple of you have
Have you got the painters in?
On our bookshelves, positioned between the bizarrely-titled Doctor, there’s something wrong with my guts and the tantalising Tendinitis: its etiology and treatment are four volumes of The Household Physician, originally written in 1874 by Dr J McGregor-Robertson but updated in
Mum’s Gone to see Spamalot
I booked tickets for Spamalot months ago, blissfuly unaware that February was going to be a month of heartache, ups and downs and a succession of car journeys on the A1. However, ending the month with