by Rhiannon Paine | Oct 26, 2010 | General, Once Upon a Time
My more evolved friends have sometimes suggested that I “get in touch with my inner child.” To which I’ve replied: “If my inner child has anything to say, she can get in touch with me. Preferably by email.” But most of the year, my encapsulated offspring is...
by Rhiannon Paine | Oct 9, 2010 | Animal Crackers, General, Just for Fun
Yes, I know. You think you are wise in the ways of not being acquired by a cat. You avoid pet shops and cat-themed videos on YouTube. When visiting cat-acquired friends you avert your eyes from the walking furballs. (The cats. It’s okay to look at your friends.) But...
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...
