Chilly

This morning I woke up about three quarters of an hour before the alarm went off, acutely conscious of two things. Firstly, I was in desperate need of a pee, secondly, it felt as though I had a layer of hoarfrost on me. Someone – no names, no pack drill - had gathered up the entirety of the KING SIZE duvet and was snoozing in contented warmth.

It is my experience that it will take the bulk of autumn and winter to train her to stop doing this, by which time it will be spring and I shall cast the duvet off myself because I am too hot.

It has been suggested that we get or try to get those large continental duvets where we each have our own generously proportioned duvet to do with as we please. I foresee two problems: firstly, we looked last winter and couldn’t find any (mind you, we didn’t look very hard) and secondly, individual or shared, I doubt it would make a ha’p’orth of difference. A second duvet would be annexed before you could say Sudetenland.

Back to sleeping in a bathrobe and scarf for me, then.

Chilly

This morning I woke up about three quarters of an hour before the alarm went off, acutely conscious of two things. Firstly, I was in desperate need of a pee, secondly, it felt as though I had a layer of hoarfrost on me. Someone – no names, no pack drill - had gathered up the entirety of the KING SIZE duvet and was snoozing in contented warmth.

It is my experience that it will take the bulk of autumn and winter to train her to stop doing this, by which time it will be spring and I shall cast the duvet off myself because I am too hot.

It has been suggested that we get or try to get those large continental duvets where we each have our own generously proportioned duvet to do with as we please. I foresee two problems: firstly, we looked last winter and couldn’t find any (mind you, we didn’t look very hard) and secondly, individual or shared, I doubt it would make a ha’p’orth of difference. A second duvet would be annexed before you could say Sudetenland.

Back to sleeping in a bathrobe and scarf for me, then.

Phew...

I have just received an email from one of our local authorities.

The server cropped it and inserted the phrase, "body not included". I find myself curiously relieved about that.

Phew...

I have just received an email from one of our local authorities.

The server cropped it and inserted the phrase, "body not included". I find myself curiously relieved about that.

Band Candy

There was a recent article on (I think) the BBC website and picked up from there, in a number of newspapers -certainly The Times, suggesting that new bands were finding it hard to come up with names after fifty years of pop and rock music. In some cases, obscure, defunct old names were being recycled (Nirvana, anyone?).

I find that hard to believe. Certainly all the easy ones have gone, but surely a band's name is nothing that a little imagination can't sort out? Do we want to listen to the music created by anyone who can't come up with a name for their band, or who can't manage anything better than Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong? I'm not sure I do; if there's no inspiration for the name, or if it's a recycling of someone else's great idea, what does it say about the music?

Personally I'm still waiting for Ten Famous Belgians, who ideally should be a quartet or smaller to trade on the irony.

Band Candy

There was a recent article on (I think) the BBC website and picked up from there, in a number of newspapers -certainly The Times, suggesting that new bands were finding it hard to come up with names after fifty years of pop and rock music. In some cases, obscure, defunct old names were being recycled (Nirvana, anyone?).

I find that hard to believe. Certainly all the easy ones have gone, but surely a band's name is nothing that a little imagination can't sort out? Do we want to listen to the music created by anyone who can't come up with a name for their band, or who can't manage anything better than Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong? I'm not sure I do; if there's no inspiration for the name, or if it's a recycling of someone else's great idea, what does it say about the music?

Personally I'm still waiting for Ten Famous Belgians, who ideally should be a quartet or smaller to trade on the irony.