by Rhiannon Paine | Oct 5, 2010 | General, Just for Fun
This just in: exercise doesn’t help you lose weight. Say you’ve eaten a Milky Way — accidents happen — and you want to burn it off. Apparently you have to leap about aerobically for at least 13 hours in a very hot room under the amplified tutelage of an...
by Rhiannon Paine | Sep 21, 2010 | General, Just for Fun
For what you are about to read, you can blame two women called, on Twitter, @rosamundi and @thefrolick. Classy and erudite (no, we’ve never met, why do you ask?), they normally tweet about Baroque music, fine wine, and bicycles. But today we had this exchange on...
by Rhiannon Paine | Aug 3, 2010 | General, Just for Fun, Once Upon a Time
There are masochists and then there are masochists. That wasn’t clear? Sorry. I’m a bit tired. What I meant to say is that there are masochists in a sexy “fun if you like that sort of thing” way, and then there are masochists like me. We non-sexy masochists...
by Rhiannon | Jul 28, 2010 | Going Places, Just for Fun, Once Upon a Time
In the midst of preparing for this year’s annual trip to Britain, I find myself thinking about my first one: a fabled journey that took place back in the mists of time, when the world was young, Stonehenge was rising on Salisbury Plain, and a tree-squirrel could...
by Rhiannon Paine | Jul 22, 2010 | General, Once Upon a Time
As I noted in a guest post on Tammy Patrick’s excellent blog, Nurse’s Notes, I’ve been thinking about high school after a recent visit from one of my oldest friends. I wasn’t one of my high school’s cool kids. My hair insisted that it was Born Free...
