The Idea-smithy

Eyes ringed with dark circles, lids drooping, dull ache at the back of my neck..and my weekend’s only just beginning. I’ve been having a ‘social life’ in the past two days that I haven’t had for a long time – courtesy a friend who’s here from the city that really knows how to live – [...]

If last week was all about time (dates and days, dumb dithering dodos!), this week seems to be exclusively numbers. 30% of this work week gone. However I just might work the weekend so counting for a 6-day week makes it just 24.75% gone. And then again, if I can reschedule a couple of appointments [...]

To ask or not to ask – that is the question
To tell or not to tell – that is the second question
To do or not to do – that is the next question
To confess or not to confess – that is yet another question
To think or not to think – that is an easy question [...]

Dangerous dates got me thinking about Julius Ceaser’s ill-fated ‘Ides of March’
Incidentally every month has an ‘Ides’…its either on the 13th or the 15th.
And the Ides of July is the 15th day of the 7th month….today.
Well, don’t get out of the house and all that……gaaaaakkkk too late….thump!

Nope this isn’t a horror flick fan club and neither is it about the supernatural. It is as a lot of blogs are, about the writer.
So I was born on Friday the thirteenth. And that is all this is about.
No, I don’t have 666 marked on my head (that would be SOME birthmark to show [...]

The weather sure is fine.
I like fine food and fine wine.
I am so, so very fine.
Fine to the point of snapping
Hairline fine, gossamer fine
Of course I’m in a fine mess
With all the unpaid fines
Fine, fine, FINE!
Yeah, sure, I’m fine