Monthly Archives: January 2009

Tasks du jour, preparing for M’s birthday sleep-over tonight

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Marchbanks

L had previously suggested I go spend the night someplace else ’cos I probably didn’t want to try to sleep with five giggly eight-year-olds in the next room. Continue reading →

Posted in House, Minutiae | 3 Comments

Curses!  Foiled again!

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Marchbanks

My turntable doesn’t go to 1178. Continue reading →

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Be friends with your chimney sweep. Give him a Christmas box.

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Marchbanks

Or you’ll wind up like my neighbors. Continue reading →

Posted in Neighborhood | 4 Comments

New information

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Marchbanks

I know how to catalogue a school yearbook. Continue reading →

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When the music stopped

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Marchbanks

It was time and past to cull my LP collection; I don’t have any shelf space for the new stuff . Continue reading →

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