I heard some really good news this week. Someone got a job that she was after ... and I was absolutely delighted for her.
"What's so unusual about that?" you might say ... OK so even in this awful economic climate that is no great shakes... but what might surprise you is this person lives far away ... I have never met her ... I haven’t even spoken to her... and I could sit next to her on a bus and she wouldn…
Surprises are funny things aren’t they? Unexpected events which can make you ... or others ... feel happy ... sad ... lucky ... unfortunate ... or maybe optimistic ... Some have an impact that lasts for only a few moments ... but others can be dramatic ... even life changing ...
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I keep thinking back to my last holiday - my last BBC vacation – a week in France last May. Once again we stayed in La Palmyre, near Royan. It is a village on the Atlantic coast about half way down on the left hand side (yes I did get my geography O’level ) about an hour below La Rochelle and hour or so above Bordeaux. I have mentioned it before ... in the Pigeon Poo story ... which apparently is one of the…
Once again, my wonderful friends have come up trumps as I have received a lovely flurry of DVDs to entertain me during my periods convalescence. However, looking at the selection in front of me I wonder whether they were worried that my Sex and the City box set was leading me astray... encouraging my Samantha-like flirtatious quips and inciting my already developed shoe fetish ... and that I needed to indulge in a more…
