Here’s what I learned at the weekend.
1. ‘Poky’ does not only mean ‘small’, as I previously thought. It also means ‘with a kick’ (or, I suppose, ‘with a poke’), as in ‘Steve’s new convertible has quite a lot of poke’ and ‘Right now I could do with a really poky coffee’.
2. Fireman jokes never get [...]
It was always going to be good. Jude, Diane and I travelled to Norfolk in this.
The house was pretty amazing too.
As Birthday Girl, I got to choose my bedroom. And who can resist a canopy? Not me.
As this was my Birthday Weekend, I was the common factor. Rebecca and Jude know each other really well, [...]
I really have had the loveliest couple of days.
There was dinner on Friday night, with my near and dear: Alan, Ned, Joy, and my parents. There was asparagus, and duck, and brown sugar meringues, and we laughed. We laughed a lot. (Though not at the point when this photo was taken, which was after the [...]