fashion

I’ll have you know all you jeerers and jokers, you makers of glib remarks and producers of cheap laughs at the expense of me and my cardigan, we (the cardigan and I) have been a great success.
Yes, the cardy has made its public debut to great acclaim. Beautiful women stopped and stared. Gay men whispered [...]

where do they get these people?

I’m on leave at present, looking after assorted babies and wives and the like. All good fun. One of the side benefits of all this is having a lot more time to catch up on day-time TV, a pleasure I only indulge in rarely.
I must say this: you get some RIGHT FREAKS on TV during [...]

hail catherine

Good old Catherine Deveny knows just what to say. Here she is today on Sam Newman, the Footy show and the Logies:
The guys who sit by rolling their eyes saying “Oh Sam!” are just as bad. The show should be called “Pigs in Suits”.
Has Kate Ritchie broken new ground in creative endeavour, challenged outmoded cultural [...]

a voice from the grave

Cast your mind back into the dim dark past, back as far as… erm… yesterday. I believe I mentioned something about a slight cold. Something along the lines of a sore throat.
I may have been stretching the well-known JH talent for understatement to its limit there. I don’t so much have a cold as a [...]

man, that burns

I have a fairly horrid cold at the moment and it’s not doing much for the kid-wrangling efforts. There’s some sort of evil gremlin in the back of my throat, running about jabbing things with a red hot poker. The little bugger.
I suppose it could be worse. Read this:
A fire has broken out at one [...]

old wives

When last we spoke I was all of a tizz, frantically rushing around the house in an effort to remember all the tiny little things one brings to the hospital. I had barely enough time to post a well-crafted sentence or two, before rushing, maternity ward-bound, to greet the new arrival.
Or so I thought…
It was [...]

more sighs

Ah, woe is me! I tell you: by the amount of twiddling of anguished thumbs in my house at present, we’re all in serious danger of developing RSI.
I suppose I should be grateful: we’re being taught valuable life lessons - patience, humility, grace under pressure.
Bugger that.
Running
None. Today was my last day at work today, at [...]

sigh

There’s a fair bit of sighing going on in the JH house at present, but precious little else.
If you’re up on events chez JH, that oughtta tell you all you need to know.
Hamburgers
I wrote, some days ago, on the considerable desirability of old-fashioned red-blooded, beet-rooted hamburgers. The prospect of a burger with a fried egg [...]