Blog Posts

  • Sticks and Stones Part 2

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I’m writing this to respond to the many comments left on my previous blog post about bullying. Firstly, please don’t feel sorry for me. What happened happened. It was years ago and I try to live each day of my life waving a two fingered salute to the past. I am what…

  • Sticks and Stones…

    “…may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” Whoever wrote that was wrong. There is no Superhero with the power not to be hurt by incessant name-calling. I was bullied relentlessly during almost my entire school life. I can’t remember when it started but I know it ended when I left school for…

  • I Was So Nearly Ready For My Close Up

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] As you all know, I am no stranger to the small screen. You may have already read about my humiliation on Catchword, but I have also played euphonium in a church at Easter (my school band provided the music for Songs of Praise), I have been interviewed as a vox pop about…

  • [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I’ve been home from Italy for almost a week now and apart from spewing the few Italian words I know on twitter – bellissimo, pizza, due Peroni per favore – and shoving some pictures on flickr, I’ve been fairly quiet about my holiday. This is not due to some selfless desire not…

  • Windaes Twa Thoosan’ For Weegies

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I’ll be away my holidays soon but I thought I’d leave you with a laugh before I go. I didn’t devise this, but it has made me laugh more times than I can mention and I hope you like it too. I also hope you don’t need a translation!

  • 42

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I put out a call on twitter today for suggestions on topics for this next blog post. Most of the replies were to technically ridiculous, I couldn’t spell them again if my life depended upon it. So it seems that when you remove the ridiculous you are left with the outright lunacy…

  • Big Horn Love

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] It seems that several bloggers are taking part in a challenge where each day for 30 days they have to write about and provide a link to different songs that have meant something to them in their lives. Being a little commitment-phobic about blogging every day, it’s not a challenge I felt…

  • Why I Write

    Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. Ok, that was Dickens beginning the tale of David Copperfield, but stay with me here because there is a tale to be told: a story of a miserable…

  • Saturday Jobs

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] My Darling Daughter has just got her first Saturday job. She will be a waitress at weddings and functions in a nearby 4 star hotel. She did the phoning and interviewing all off her own back and I am incredibly proud. And it has got me thinking back to my own Saturday…

  • Is It Wine O’Clock Yet?

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] A recent conversation with my mum that explains my frequent headaches. Mum got a new book on Green’s Playhouse,