Year: 2011

  • I’m not a baby machine

    The older I get the more questions I get about when I’ll get married and have kids. It surprises me that in today’s world there is still this expectation that people will get married, move into a house with a white picket fence and have 2.5 kids. The world just doesn’t happen that way anymore. […]

  • Reviewed: The Eyre Affair

    The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book was recommended to me by a friend. I was told that I didn’t need to have read Jane Eyre previously to understand the book but I’m really glad I read it first. As far as I’m concerned you definitely need to […]

  • Where did that month go now?

    Oh my, it has been an age since I’ve been able to sit in front of a computer and just relax. The only reason I’m doing it right now is that one of my tools has decided to stop working and I can’t work for the second but I’m hoping it comes back soon. I […]

  • Reviewed: Cleopatra: A Life

    Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff My rating: 2 of 5 stars This book was all kinds of disappointing. When I saw Stacy Schiff on The Jon Stewart Show discussing the book I was really excited to read it and requested it from my library straight away. Unfortunately, rather than getting a interesting book about […]

  • Fire, exclamation mark.

    And that will only be hilarious to people that have seen the IT Crowd. Best. episode. ever. But back to the actual point. I was cruising along at work on my last 12 hr shift (midnight to midday) and decided I’d like something to eat. It was about 3:30am which seem as good a time […]