Excellent! And the show is a real time waster, in the best possible way.

Yeah, it looks like he has a bald patch over his right eye; maybe scar tissue from scrapping. His tail looks mingy too. And he’s thin, which doesn’t help.

I was going to say that you could maybe use it as a skating rink in winter, but you’d only be able to do very short laps up and down.

Maybe it’s just going to take some time and proper food until he looks less tatty.

Your pool may show up in October!

Payday is beautiful!

That’s an interesting possibility. What I have done is make up some more dressing to pour over it after the first day.

I’m so sorry about your mom; my mother died 40 years ago, but it left a huge hole. Eventually you start to heal, but that doesn’t mean that you forget them.

I made a salad which is an adaptation of friend’s recipe; couscous chickpea salad (but I leave out the couscous, because it just makes too damn much salad, and it soaks up all the dressing), so, chickpeas, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, parsley, whatever vegetables you have around, and the dressing is olive oil, lemon…

Damn! I hope you start to feel better soon!

She’s a cutie-patootie, no matter what her name is!

Congratulations on the move! Have you bought the house/is it a move you are looking forward to?

Aw Derby; I’m so sorry. One thing I can tell you is that at this time you have to take any good feelings and enjoy them. You have to laugh sometimes, and putting aside mourning for even a short while is not a bad thing.

Ellen’s introduction to the world of television was called “These friends of mine” in the first season, and “those friends” were dumped for the second season for a new cast of tv friends and renamed “Ellen”. I preferred the cast of the first season, and thought the show was ironically named in view of the fact that…

I’m so very sorry. Do you have someplace safe to go? You deserve better. His behaviour is about him, not you; don’t ever blame yourself for what he says or does.

How are you doing? Are you okay?

Cousin Matthew’s Tingling Leg already mentioned that Tiffany seems to be relatively normal, but her mother got her the hell away from Trump fairly early on. Who knows’ what Barron’s life is like? I suspect his father is unpleasant when he does interact with the boy.

Let us know if it, uh, bears fruit!

I was doing course work in an animal dissection lab at one point (I was going to specialise in analysing animal bone found at archaeological sites, and as part of our course work, we had to dissect an animal), and I was also working as a clerk in a public library. One afternoon at lunch, I was in the staff room with…

She sounds much like a former friend, who would spend a lot of time choosing and buying gifts, not so much for the enjoyment of the recipient, but so that she would have bragging rights that she gave the best gifts. And this person would eventually drive everyone away.