Author: JulieD

For Brits, the opening chords of the song “I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)” mean only one thing: film reviews. Barry Norman used it as his theme tune for the series that started as Film ’72 and is now called Film ’08, I assume, and hosted by Jonathon Ross. The… Continue reading F is for Free

My Weight-Watchers inpired rediscovery of delicious fresh foods has led me down the (garden?) path of looking into Community Supported Agriculture. This is where you buy shares in a farm’s crop for that year and they, in turn provide you with a box full of fresh goodness every week (assuming the creeks don’t rise, and… Continue reading A is for Agriculture (local, sustainable)

Having trouble blogging today because the ideas are finding it hard to sprout and grow under the sonic mulch of my five year old’s prattling. He’s lovely, and it’s cute, but I can’t even think of what my ideas for today’s blog were. I know there was something I thought of yesterday, I have a… Continue reading Note To the Writing Mother: Make Notes

Now here’s an application I think everyone I know feels like they need: Leech Block. It’s a Firefox extension that you can program to be your self-control gnome. It is a well-established fact that Google, IMDB, YouTube, and any social networking site were set up by the devil to suck your life away in pursuits… Continue reading Leech Block

I’ve had an idea for a while that it would be great to write short fiction and publish it as a podcast. It would be good for people who like to listen to stories, but have other things to do as well, (say, knit or sew. Or drive to work. Or build and paint little… Continue reading G is for Guidelines

Something happened during first year at Secondary School that had repercussions for my weight and health for years afterwards. Perhaps it was the scabby changing rooms, or the development of adolescent sweat glands, or the lack of shower curtains and the time to use the showers (“OK girls, five minutes until your next class. Go… Continue reading E is for Exercise

Well, the boys are snotty and have poor tissue-control, so it’s pretty inevitable that I am now en-colded. I am unable to go more than a minute without grabbing a tissue, and when I sneeze, well, that in itself goes on for about a minute. (I’ve never understood people who can sneeze once and be… Continue reading S is for Snot and Sneeze and Sleep

K is downloading Doctor Who and I’m off to try to coax the boys into bed so we can watch it in peace. (Naughty I know, but we always buy the DVDs when they come out, so I feel we’re just time-travelling a little by downloading a freebie in real time. Which seems appropriate. Otherwise… Continue reading W is for Who (woo-hoo!)

I just read, on Wil Wheaton’s blog* about a post on John Scalzi’s blog, where Scalzi (a book of whose I have just finished) talks about how to act cool when you meet an author you like. I had just been reading Neil Gaiman’s blog and so I thought, Oh, I bet he’d like that,… Continue reading SQEEEEE! (or: N is for Nodding)

I ate chinese food and stayed up too late reading last night. I think it’s goign to be a quetion of how many pounds went on this week. Ah well.