by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Mar 4, 2018 | Family, Nature
I love snow. Really love it. But only in the appropriate places: The Arctic or The Alps, for example. A place for everything, they say, and everything in its place. North Dorset, indeed anywhere south of Cumbria, frankly, is not its place. I hate the disruption to the...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Feb 25, 2018 | Entertainment, Sport
A couple of weeks ago, the rugby commentator Ian Robertson announced that he is retiring. News like this would not normally prompt so much as a shrug from me. Murray Walker, John Motson, John McCririck all left our TV screens and their absence has not touched me. But...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Feb 18, 2018 | Arts, Music
“Jesus Christ, what are we listening to now?” Saturday night at our house. We are expecting guests for dinner and I have hit ‘shuffle’ on all songs in my iTunes library because creating a music playlist now will require time I could otherwise spend ensuring the...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Feb 11, 2018 | Talking Points
In the post today I received an invitation to give blood, a new watch strap ordered from an online retailer, and the details of a firm which could help if I were having any damp problems. (I only get damp problems when I watch Top Gun.) Since I got into online...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Feb 4, 2018 | Talking Points
Anybody who knows me knows there is nothing I value more than a reliable flush. Which is why I am in a permanent state of horror about the state of public loos in this, the world’s sixth richest country. In 1984 I went to Cologne on a German study trip. What an eye...
