When I bought a kamado grill (a fancy BBQ), I joined a Facebook group to help me up the learning curve and set the tone when I posted my first question querying what looked like a crack in the fire bowl only to be ridiculed by a lot of men (only men) who told me it was supposed to be there to allow … [Read more...] about The Benefit Of Complication
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Thinking Wistfully About Nostalgia
Some neighbours with too much time on their hands have organised a street party for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee next weekend. There are requests to bake cakes and instructions to move cars after the council grants permission to close the road. It all feels like a lot of unnecessary faff for … [Read more...] about Thinking Wistfully About Nostalgia
How To Be Assertive
It's all very well having lots of strategies that other people can use to become more assertive but there are times when the phrase "physician, heal thyself" rings loudly in my ears. In the space of a few days at the beginning of the month, I was asked to take on several projects that require a … [Read more...] about How To Be Assertive
Shortcuts
Shortcuts often seem alluring in their promise to get us somewhere we want to be faster than we thought possible, but most of the time they don't really work, and anyway, sometimes we use them to get to a place that we don't really want to be. I'm in the garden painting the third coat on the … [Read more...] about Shortcuts
Fork Handles
In an effort to amuse the puppy and stop her from barking at mourners milling about at my father-in-law's wake I take my new fork into the garden to dig in the borders and try to remove all traces of the creeping cinquefoil. The puppy sits on the steps and watches, occasionally picking up a scrap … [Read more...] about Fork Handles