Category Archives: Crone as Casualty

Tectonic Trouble in Itchy Ankle and environs

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

 Earthquake update: I was in the bathroom when the 5.9 struck and so braved a small personal tsunami while others were evacuating the building. Now back at work and fearing the commute home. Here in DC we don’t cope well with … Continue reading →

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Belly ache

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

I woke up in some discomfort and the feeling persisted all day. The large white area known as my stomach was sore. I tried to diagnose the problem without the aid of medical staff at the Duke Diet and Fitness … Continue reading →

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Where are the Lifeguards?

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

The Cackler is claiming salvage rights since she hauled me off the rocky bottom of the savage sea this afternoon. She says she will sell my rusting, sunken carcass to the Chinese for scrap unless I agree to do her bidding. She … Continue reading →

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Lovely Day Petunia

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

We’re safely back at the Tranquility Pool after a near-drowning incident at the beach. The Cackler was supine on the sand after a long walk this morning when I decided to trust to the tides and enjoy a short swim. The beach … Continue reading →

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Adventures with Lady Godiva

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

Lady Godiva (yes, she’s from the English Midlands) is making me walk miles every day. She started power walking last year and lost 50 pounds. She is now slimmer than a sixteen year old and every bit as spunky. She … Continue reading →

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Drugging, drinking and depilation

Posted on March 6, 2011 by

I hit the bar at 5pm. “You by yourself? Everything all right?’ said Mano as he tried to direct me to a booth “I’ll sit at the bar”  I said, causing Mano to exchange a worried look with Randy, who … Continue reading →

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Itchy Ankle and some others—the News this New Year.

Posted on January 9, 2011 by

It was just as well Spud Hughes and the Contessa traveled to Itchy Ankle this Christmas because the Crone was incapacitated. Her right wrist, subsequently found to be broken, was useful for very little more than lifting the occasional glass of mulled wine, … Continue reading →

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Fork Handles, Frayed Feet and that Christmas Feeling

Posted on December 23, 2010 by

I am feeling a little frail this Christmas. Something to do with having fallen on the ice and hurting my right hand. (You try wrapping presents without an opposable thumb). I’ve been wearing the same bra for five days because … Continue reading →

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No more turnip lanterns

Posted on October 9, 2010 by

News reaches me from Spalding, Lincolnshire in the UK where they are supplying all of Europe with pumpkins for Halloween. Hurrah for Spalding. Much has been written here before of the Irish habit of hacking up turnips (also known as swedes … Continue reading →

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On Being An Irish Work Of Art

Posted on September 14, 2010 by

To the newly refurbished Ulster Museum in Belfast to see an exhibition of contemporary Irish art.  The usual stuff–a windswept field from Basil Blackshaw, some abstract but distinctly boggy from T.P. Flanagan and women in shawls huddled on the back of … Continue reading →

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