Isabel Rogers

well EXACTLY! If they gave me the editing gig I'd sort everything out.

two frogs stacked in the pond, staring at me and probably wishing I'd go away amd leave them to it. which I did

I think they've found love.

email from people I booked my covid jab from: "Dear Isabel, It is five months since you last had a private Covid vaccination via the Pharmadoctor service, at [redacted]. We recommend you consider a booster every 6 months and you can book an appointment for your next private Covid jab via the Pharmadoctor website."

I bet you do matey, at a hundred quid a pop. Think I'll struggle on for my full year thanks.

also why 'five' then '6'?
also why 'vaccination' then 'jab'?
do you need an editor?
are we not paying you enough to get one?

A bright red cardinal sits on top of the Sideview mirror of a car

The Cardinal jumps down to look at himself in the mirror

The cardinal begins furiously attacking his reflection in the mirror

“Look at that bird”

A Play In Three Acts

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

oh god

ah - will do. Now studying their ID doc to make sure I get the right ones.

The best.

*shrugs*

they're back!

frog floating in the pond. *Chandler Bing voice* legs couldn't BE more akimbo

let us all aspire to being as chill as this guy

FROG TIME!
SEXY FROG TIME!

I usually move important ones into the relevant subfolder at the time, and I went through the non-sorted ones individually for about the past year, moving ones I needed. Then looked at the dates and thought 'nope'.

Just deleted >7000 sent emails. I'm so smug about deleting my inbox and sorting them into subfolders I forgot there was this hideous tangle of sent ones. Nobody needs to use server space to store those for years.

*deep cleansing breath*

A real friend to the sisterhood.

So many great lines in it!

"Everywhere he went, Andrew was described as rude, arrogant, petulant, shallow, uninformed, unethical, contrary, childish and spoiled. Prince William called him a ‘tosser’, and it’s said, though he denies it, that Prince Harry had a go at punching him out."

oh god
the bills

do NOT *weeps quietly*

sunny view from path: over a rocky field, then smooth field, then burn (unseen in dip), then heathery hills then higher hill then blue sky with a few fluffies. it's all rather lovely, and just outside my back gate

otoh this was today's dogwalk

I know where I'd rather be

I used to watch you all wander round #LBF from Hampshire while I wrote novels. Now I watch you from the Cairngorms while arranging to swap my 5-tonne digger for a 3-tonne one. What a skills portfolio. By next year I'll be novelling again I promise. Good luck with the traditional LBF flu 😷

Good luck to you. I'll circle back in a few days with lemsips and hot water bottles for everybody.

Yes! The annoying thing is the builder said that bit of wall he was told to take down was the sturdiest stonework he'd ever had to attack. What do engineers know, huh?

at last

SPORTACUS! I was peak Lazytown viewing demographic back in the day, being both an exhausted new mother and former gymnast.

look I thought I was ok after the weekend's concrete lifting, but now my quads are complaining at the slightest request and I think I might have to lie down for the next week or so

ah. okay...

My approach was I didn't mind if they ate/drank sweet things as long as it wasn't sipping all day and they brushed their teeth thoroughly. No fillings so far...

Don't know her age - when mine were young they loved drinking milk. Also (bizarrely) jelly is almost all water. And I jettisoned my aversion to sweetners when mine were tiny and did the Robinson's Squash'd - apple and blackberry was a fav. They grew out of that and now drink loads of water/milk.

You have the best friends. And the best Sunday roast. I hope nobody batted an eyelid when you took your hat off and you had an absolutely splendid time.

I'd like to say 'amen' but, you know

but the Enterprise carpet stays clean because of the vacuum of space