Category: Thumbs Up!

It took me too long to add this category, but I need to have something to balance the pet hates, and there are so many things to be grateful for.

  • I  have been slightly more calm  at home for a few weeks now, and then the penny dropped! No-one in the area is having their loft converted, their roof done, an extension built on their house, their patio removed, constructing metal furniture with a circular saw (which often happens hourly all weekend). It is short…

  • I was going to do a post about my favourite food – tahini, when I stumbled across a man with no shirt, making raw tahini  at his ‘lodge’  and  then my plan went a bit pear shaped…as I rolled around my office  guffawing somewhat inelegantly, tears rolling down my face. I mean why is he…

  • Last Friday some of the Bishopsgate Singers once again took a turn to the City to once again help raise funds for the Red Cross. Much better weather than the last time we sung, check out the difference in our apparel. In December we sang for the Red Cross in Leadenhall Market in the City…

  • Well it is nearly round, and also a bit sad.  Last week, near our house they chopped down a street tree, a beautiful ornamental ash. It is funny, because  about 2 years ago, when the council said they were chopping the one that is outside our house, we and the neighbours threatened to chain ourselves…