Portugal was wiped off the amber list with little warning about a month ago. I didn’t feel much sympathy for the people mobbing airport counters for flights to beat the quarantine deadline, any more than I feel sorry for people who fail to win the lottery each jackpot draw. The…
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The love of my life?
I used to dream, like all teenage girls, of one day meeting the Love of My Life. Specifically, this would happen in my late teens or twenties, early enough that I would have a partner on my great life’s adventure. What was the point of meeting HIM in your 40s…
Overtalking
Last week, when the shops reopened, I went down Byres Road to Rymans. I adore stationery and spend more on it than is necessary, but there are worse vices. Stationery, even more so than books, must be physically browsed. You can read a book review or an excerpt on Kindle,…
The cost of creative living
I thought I’d finally lost my basic cognitive functioning in the Maryhill Road Big Tesco, trying to match up the light bulb specs of my two new Made.com light fittings (hall and kitchen) with Tesco’s own classification. According to Tesco, E14 is SES (small Edison screw) and E27 is ES…