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Missing link

You know that little thing in your head which stops you saying things you shouldn’t? Yeah, I don’t have one of those. We all have choices in t...
1,789560Sep 2016Sep 20165 hrs ago

Reasons not to get married

Here's a couple, not young (knocking 60) in a really good relationship. One was very happily married, then widowed, and believes marriage is important...
1,789540Sep 2015Mar 2019Apr 28

How good has CS been to you?

We've all had our little grumbles in the past, scammers, miserable buggers raining on blog parades, but how good has CS really been for you? We've...
1,747570Jun 2016Jun 2016Apr 27

Abnormal.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, and sitting for ages in gridlocked rush hour traffic in a car that you...
1,745550May 2018May 2018Apr 27

Can't believe I missed Kiss A Ginger Day

Actually I don't know if they celebrate it here, there aren't many gingers in the south of Spain, I may be the only one in my small town. But if they...
1,738620Jan 2018Jan 201813 hrs ago

This way to airport weigh-in

Pago Pago airport has apparently stopped pre-booking seats and started weighing passengers they think are overweight. Way to start your holiday? He...
1,737670Oct 2016Oct 2016Apr 25

Things Mum taught me

I taught my daughter many of the same. Mums, eh? Anatomy - Don't come running to me when you break both legs Religion - you'd better pray tha...
1,732531Nov 2017Nov 2017Apr 25

Changing my description, sigh

I've described myself as "a few extra pounds" from the start but I could always have stood to lose a stone (that's 14 pounds, or 6 kgs, for the rest o...
1,722650Mar 2019Aug 201924 hrs ago

Defining friendship

What would I call those people on CS I would enjoy having a drink with if the chance came up, would go out of my way to meet, have talked to a great d...
1,721630Jan 2016Jan 2016Apr 27

Just call me Fred

Hello it’s me and I know, you don’t usually see me this time of day. Usually? Ever. I’m awake an hour earlier than usual because my good buddy / L...
1,720350Apr 2016Apr 2016Apr 26

Meanwhile here in Spain

Yesterday I was in Orgiva, a small town in the Alpujarras and did have my camera. I'm not a good photographer, though. Pics - Orgiva is hot enough...
1,716630Sep 2018Sep 2018Apr 25

Life plan

It’s taken a few years – okay, lots - but I finally know what I want. Sell more books. That opens up more options and funds everything else. Earni...
1,715590May 2016May 20169 hrs ago

One packing problem sorted

How long does bubbly last, anyway? I found six, count them, six, bottles (so far) waiting to be packed. I don't even remember who gave me the first fe...
1,709580Aug 2017Aug 2017Apr 27

Retirement - 30? 70?

They keep moving the goalposts. At this rate I will be 102 when I can finally totter off to a well-earned rest. If I promise cross-my-heart I will...
1,708540Feb 2017Feb 2017Apr 28

No pressure

In UK and now in Spain, I can buy my groceries at an automated teller, with one human employee monitoring about 12 machines I can draw cash at an ATM...
1,705510Nov 2017Nov 2017Apr 26

Ever overheard yourself being described?

I was at a family gathering this weekend and looking at books in the lounge when I heard my cousin telling her sister-in-law about one of the guests....
1,698360Jul 2015Jul 2015Apr 20

talk about offputting ...

There are always blogs about what should we be doing, saying, or NOT doing / saying, in our relentless hunt for lurve, but I can't remember if anyone...
1,696270Oct 2015Oct 2015Apr 24

Advice given - lay them right, you can walk over them for 30 years

Now, is that true? I think I must have been laying them wrong. Or perhaps I didn’t get the best quality in the first place. I do find after a few year...
1,693750Apr 2017Apr 2017Apr 27

Leap year, baby! part 2

I was going to help all the ladies with a proposal in form but am really annoyed to find that neither my Debretts nor my Enquire Within offers any tem...
1,687390Feb 2016Feb 2016Apr 27

Anyone play the stock market?

Saturday is never a good day to blog so I am hoping rather than expecting responses. I've just gone into a buying partnership in a small way with love...
1,678340Sep 2015Sep 2015Apr 28

That was 2017 - done and dusted. Most hectic year EVER.

I started 2017 employed and living in Scotland but knowing that the Scottish offices of my company were closing and we were being made redundant in Ap...
1,673690Jan 2018Jan 2018Apr 28

Whadda we want?

I worked it out this morning as I lay in bed, loving the fact I didn't have to get up (working full-time SUCKS), and day-dreaming. Whadda we want?...
1,670200Sep 2015Sep 2015Apr 20

Don't panic, but it's Scorpio season

Tuesday 23rd October ushered in Scorpio season - the sign of death and rebirth, intensity and passionate convictions, and a time when all signs, not...
1,668730Oct 2018Oct 2018Apr 25

I always wonder

no that isn't true I never wondered it in my life before. But I do now. Harun Yahya (aka Adnan Oktar) says "I always wondered why birds stay in the...
1,667490Jan 2016Jan 20167 hrs ago

Normal people

Do normal people exist? First you have to define normal. Take yourself. Are you normal? YAY! Find someone like yourself. YAY! If they re...
1,664160Sep 2015Mar 2019Apr 27

putting smoking in its place

this is a blog for the smokers on CS - the social, the regular, the trying-to-quit, and even those who call themselves non-smokers but turn up for mee...
1,663410Jun 2018Jun 2018Apr 27

say something different

I find myself saying the same things again and again and sometimes I blame the blogs because they seem to be on the same general subjects again and ag...
1,662350Dec 2015Dec 2015Apr 28

Attached the wrong file :doh:

A friend asked to see a pic of a bloke I was seeing. I had a good pic embedded in a very steamy love letter. I saved a copy, deleted the steamy text -...
1,65650Sep 2015Sep 2015Apr 20

if you had to choose -

this came up as a topic in class, and intrigued me. If you had to choose between not being able to speak again OR not being able to stop y...
1,651660May 2018May 2018Apr 27

INCONCLUSIVE TRAVEL PLANS FOR 2017

I have been in many places, but I've never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can't go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone. I would like to...
1,651491Nov 2016Nov 2016Apr 26

I remember - actually no I don't

There's a joke doing the rounds on Facebook, which says 'If my memory gets any worse I'll be able to plan my own surprise party' I'd probably then...
1,648420Jan 2016Jan 201622 hrs ago

This is me hard at work

I took a cup out of the dishwasher and thought ew, that's not very clean. Then I realized I hadn't actually done a load yet and disaster, I'm out of c...
1,645280Apr 2016Apr 201612 hrs ago

Deja vu - oh, you're going to be important in my life

I know this has been blogged about before but - that odd moment when you look at a profile pic and there's a *ping* in your head. Half the time of...
1,642580Jan 2017Jan 2017Apr 26

Beauty - or, those who cannot do, teach.

So this morning I tried a little, a very little, shea butter on my hair. It no longer looks like an exploded haystack but is a sleek and shining curta...
1,641520Apr 2019Jun 20193 hrs ago

Smartphones and blog comments - problem?

I may have missed blogs on this change and apologies if so but it really is a little irritating. Used to be you could only see the first 30 commen...
1,640530Jun 2017Jun 2017Apr 26

So tired of being afraid

I don’t hide under the bed quaking, but at any one time there can be at least one thread of fear running through my head. Some come from the media and...
1,637440Nov 2018Nov 2018Apr 27

In the future ..

In the future children will be raised believing it is their duty to seek a happy life, with just one proviso*. They will be taught from the beginning...
1,636571Mar 2019Mar 20198 hrs ago

would you, could you, change?

So, worked with a guy 20 years ago who looks like Sean Connery, stayed on friendly terms ever since, phone calls, occasional emails, even visits, I li...
1,636600Aug 2015Aug 20155 hrs ago

Happiness is a soap bubble

we all have bubbles of happiness floating through our lives, perfect, beautiful, and lasting seconds. In the happiest lives there are lots of them but...
1,619510Jun 2017Jun 2017Apr 28

Is there a new way to market stuff?

Oh I know my timing sucks, the weekend and all, I should have asked when you all had your business brains on. Still, those who haven't disconnected th...
1,612560Aug 2016Aug 20166 hrs ago

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