Posted by Sandy | Posted in allotment, food | Posted on 13-05-2007
… first there was sunny weather, followed by a week of rain and a sudden bloom of fecking weeds on the veg patch. Outrageous! There is now one cubic metre of weeds in the compost bin.
If those weeds dare show their faces again I’ll be out with the flame thrower.
Ooooh – but I do have a greenhouse now. But there are even weeds in there. Grrrrr!
Posted by Sandy | Posted in food, travelling | Posted on 07-05-2007
Posted by Sandy | Posted in drink, food, travelling, work | Posted on 05-05-2007
Last Sunday I returned home after two weeks away doing supremely important work business-type stuff in the States (i.e. shuffling round conferences and scorching my credit card). I scurried off the plane and zoomed home eager in anticipation of a home cooked meal from Le Chef. But … I was taken out, fed pasta and then abandoned to my own devices as Le Chef had to go do supremely important work business-type stuff in Lundun for two days. I had to survive the early part of the week on toast and apples

Fearful that I was going to fade away last night I decided I needed to carbo-load and availed myself of 4.5 pints of the finest ale Deuchar’s IPA and a plate of nachos with beans with my work teamies.
And then this morning, Le Chef goes and f**ks off again to allegedly do more worky type business, supremely important yadda-yadda in Athens and Barcelona. His parting shot was something about suntan lotion (business my arse). So now I am reduced to a diet of ginger cordial, sunflower seeds and coriander stalks. Red Cross food parcels welcome.
Posted by Sandy | Posted in drink, food, sex, travelling, whimsy | Posted on 22-02-2007
… poor TSSL
neglected as usual while its owner is off obsessing about other things. This past month I have mostly been:
Posted by Sandy | Posted in drink, food, travelling, work | Posted on 20-01-2007
It’s been more than 10 days since I last posted. I hate that wee blog monkey that sits on my shoulder whispering,”You haven’t posted in 14 days, is you life really so sad that you have nothing to say ?”
“Feck off blog monkey, it’s Scotland and it’s winter and it’s cold and windy and dark and I am not drinking so of course I’ve got nothing to say. My life is temporarily on hold while I wait for the sun to come out and the Frascati to arrive“.
You wouldn’t really be interested in my past week but for the sake of a pathetic blog post here it is:
- Monday: Went to work in the wind and rain fully clothed in Santa donated Goretex. Ate soup. Came home. Stared into space.
- Tuesday: Went to work in the wind and rain fully clothed in Santa donated Goretex. Ate soup. Came home. Stared into space.
- Wednesday: Went to work not in the wind nor the rain but still fully clothed in Santa donated Goretex. Ate cheese & tomato toasty. Came home. Stared at TV and occasionally Le Chef who wasn’t clothed in Goretex coz he fell out with Santa.
- Thursday: Went to work …. see how dull this is … you kinda get the idea … go somewhere in the weather wearing Goretex, eat a thing, come home, stare at something.
- Friday: I’ll let my reader fill in for Friday.
- Saturday: Stares at ipod nanos. Thinks about gin and tonics. Eats Polish doughnut from Polish bakery.
- Sunday: I can hardly wait!
Oh well, only 11 days til the Frascati arrives.
Posted by Sandy | Posted in drink, food, sex, whimsy, work | Posted on 06-01-2007
Hankering (n) – a strong or persistent desire or craving. Possible etymology: Flemish
As in ….
- I have a terrible hankering for a a large glass of wine
- I have a terrible hankering for a great big bar of chocolate, a pie, some pork scratchings and a pint of ale
- I have a terrible hankering for a Doris Day film
Antonym: indifference, aversion
As in ….
- I am quite indifferent to lettuce, grated carrot, shredded cabbage and five pieces of fruit. But I do have a hankering for chips cooked in lard.
- I have developed an aversion to work.
And of course there is in urban phraseology hankering for a pankering which needs no explanation!
Posted by Sandy | Posted in food, travelling | Posted on 04-01-2007
“What ?”
“No, that can’t be right ?”
“Oh, I guess they’re broken”
Was what I said when I stood on the scales at the gym tonight. So, in a pathetic attempt to get fit and lose the fat I:
- went on the cross trainer for 15 minutes. It was all a bit Bill Murray a la Lost in Translation
- then wept in agony as I did 220 situps (count ‘em … that’s 1..2..3……220 situps). That’ll be a sore tum tomorrow
- and finally 10 minutes on the running machine at the galloping pace of … 8kms / hour. However, I think I lost extra calories coz my flabby butt bounced around quite a bit!
My plan is to ditch the spare 4.5 kilos by the beginning of February. Just in time to go to Roma to stuff myself with pasta, pizza and vino tinto or whatever they call it in Italy! My diet is going well too ……. today it consisted of mostly tangerines, mint tea and toffees. Le Chef fed my salad for tea … lots of lettuce and carrots .. oh and fried potatoes, eh and boiled egg and jamon.
Hmmm let’s just try to lose 4.5 grammes then.
Posted by Sandy | Posted in drink, food, internet, whimsy | Posted on 31-12-2006
Warning: This is a “I love my MacBook” post
As you are aware I am strangely addicted to my new laptop. So addicted I haven’t thought of anything else but its lovely whiteness for the past two weeks. Lately, I have become fraught at bath time coz I lose valuable On MacBook time while soaking (when I have a bath I have to stay in it til all the bubbles have gone and the water is cold – so I am in there a loooongggg time and I’m sure the little Book feels neglected). However, I have just discovered that I can still use the MacBook while in the bath coz it’s got a remote control! Oh how cool is that ? So I had Madonna, Jimi Hendrix and ColdPlay in the bath tonight. Well … Madonna and Jimi were quite charming but I don’t think I want Chris Martin in my bath again.
To get all those folks in the bathroom I had to deploy significant amounts of gadgetry including:
- 1 lovely lovely white MacBook running on battery outside the bathroom (we dinnae want the condensation on our precious)
- 1 lovely lovely white MacBook remote
- 1 Sony wireless speaker
- 1 Sony wireless speaker transmitter
- 1 Guardian Weekend supplement
- 5 Irish toffees (fair trade of course)
- 1 glass fizzy wine with orange
- 1 Fender Stratocaster
- 1 bottle of lighter fuel
- 1 match
- a black baby
Och … I dinnae play with the MacBook all the time. This Xmas I have also:
- sewed a billion cushion covers for our sofa (8 down, 4 to go)
- ate for Scotland
- sat on my butt for Scotland
- for the purposes of ebay sales listened to Electric Ladyland, Are you experienced?, Isle of Wight. Hurrah for Jimi ! He’s dead dontcha know ? Pool of vomit. Poor thing! And I mean Hurrah for his guitar playing not for the pool of vomit thing.
- (barely) tolerated relatives
- watched all three Back to the Future films followed by …
- all three Jurassic Park films (yawn)
- learned a bit of MySQL, PHP and CSS (OK I had to use the MacBook for that but I also had to use the PC laptop too – yeuch)
- thought about my New Year Resolutions (more of that another day)
- thought about how wet I will get watching the Pet Shop Boys on Hogmanay. I am considering taking a bin liner to wear
- did I mentioning eating for Scotland ?
Posted by Sandy | Posted in food, travelling, whimsy, work | Posted on 29-11-2006
Le Chef, moi et Le Scottish Portugesie were in Croatia last week participating in the world squid eating championships … oh and a work conference thing. On the last day of the work conference thing we went on a cultural tour which was very interesting but a bit heavy on the church visitations and the speaking in Croatian (my Croatian only stretches to bok, pivo, ligne na zaru and hvala). To entertain myself in the churches I decided to search out all the lambs (and other animals) of God coz as you know sheeps are my most favourite animals after squids.
Mary had a litte lamb ….

Oh Jesus those are nasty scratches

Did you drop this ?

Lambless man but at least he has a plate on his head

Posted by Sandy | Posted in food, whimsy | Posted on 28-11-2006
This week it is Oxymoron
Le Chef used oxymoron the other day and I took it upon myself to adopt it as my word of the week and go in search of oxymorons (oxymora?). And lo I found a fab photographic oxy on my way home from work today …..
I got off to a rather bad start this morning and the rude c-word temporarily replaced oxymoron as WotW.