Nice Irish Lady

• Politics, bigotry and poetry on a Saturday 3 months ago It’s all go here in Eastleigh. Normally this is a quiet town with a penchant for mobility scooters and cutting-edge dance (our local arts centre The Point does a fine line in the avant-garde). But what with our local MP having an affair (I presume it was torrid) and making his soon-to-be...
• More Gin Please for 2013 4 months ago Happy New Year! I celebrated the new year with Nice English Man. Instead of partying in Rio or swaying drunkenly to the Pogues in the Royal Hotel Tipperary (‘Where Nice People Meet Nice People’) we sat on the sofa and ate crisps. In fact, we did more than sit, we were ‘thrun...
• Spiritual laundry baskets, charity shops and expat nostalgia 6 months ago I haven’t done a post in a while.
• My ugly mugs 8 months ago I met Prince Charles today! OK, it was a mug with a picture of ‘yer man’ and poor auld Princess Diana that I found in the bottom of a box in a charity shop. And I had to buy it for I have a weird passion for mugs with British royals on them. You don’t [...]
• Summer should not be work 10 months ago Summer, to quote the wise words of Jazzy-J and the then Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, is ‘time to unwind’. True for you Mr Smith. I’ve been hard at work unwinding. Here is the family of niceness unwinding. Granted we look a little unhinged but that’s summer for you. The concept...

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