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A fresh start and a downward spiral
Hansel greeted the first sunrise of the new year at the beach in Itchy Ankle.He did not so much get up early as stay up late, but the pictures are nice all the same. I inadvertently started the new … Continue reading
Itchy Ankle and some others—the News this New Year.
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
Posted in Christmas with the Crone, Crone as Casualty, Crone in America, Culture with the Crone, friendship, Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel, itchy ankle
Tagged baby by sperm donor, good neighbors, Hansel and Gretel, history, itchy ankle, live-in staff, living with disability, marriage, new books worth reading, New Year, publishing, radar, stephen phelps, tizard mission, ww2, zoe lewis
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The Torque of the 12th grade: The Crone makes a Mousetrap Car
Gretel will graduate this spring, but only if the Crone makes one last push on science projects. We are just a few credits short of cap and gown and so each weekend is a flurry of papers and checklists–does the … Continue reading
Posted in anger, Culture with the Crone, Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel, itchy ankle, Life's vexations
Tagged bad girls club, Blarney Crone, energy, engineer english, football wives, graduating high school, graphite powder, Hansel and Gretel, ikea instructions, itchy ankle, mickey mouse project, mousetrap car, science project, torque
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Ten Years To Remember
The papers and tv channels are full of retrospectives of the first 10 years of the century–the noughties. Those who care for the official record can check out the decade in three minutes here but the Crone offers her own stand-out … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas with the Crone, Cooking with the Crone, Culture with the Crone, diet, food, friendship, Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel, itchy ankle, The Traveling Crone, yard sale
Tagged acrylic nails, Best addresses, Blarney Crone, blog, christmas, coming home, Continental airlines, Crab Dip, dental implant, diets, gift wrapping, Halloween, Hansel and Gretel, hot sauce, Hurricane Isabel, iphone, itchy ankle, Jessica Lipnack, Judy Kelly Long and Foster, Lee Hamilton, Lexulous, New Zealand, Obama, parking tickets, pigs feet, plumbers, r&b, Rockville Pike, Roger Wilkins, Sally Katzen, St Patrick's Day, Ted Kennedyu, Thanksgiving, the caddy, The Dresden, the noughties, the outer banks, tight ass, Titus Andronicus, Tom and Mike, USA, vacations, Washington DC, yard sales
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Halloween in Itchy Ankle
If the Blarney Crone was writing the definitive Irish novel you would expect to be moving about between different locations and time periods but on a humble blog a certain simple respect for a linear chronology is usually expected. Sorry. … Continue reading
Posted in itchy ankle
Tagged Blarney Crone, blog, Halloween, Hansel and Gretel, Irish novel, itchy ankle, Rapunzel, trick or treat, witch
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Keep the money–open the box
The Crone’s life is revolutionized by her iphone and her favorite app–Pandora. Pandora, for those who haven’t come across it, is a sort of digital deejay. You tell it one singer or song you like, and it puts together a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture with the Crone
Tagged Allison Krauss, Blarney Crone, Buffy Ste Marie, Carmen McRae, Dolly Parton, Eartha Kitt, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Guy Clark, Hansel and Gretel, iphone, Johnny Cash, Kate Wolf, Lil Wayne, Mary Black, Merle Haggard, michael jackson, Neil Young, pandora, Paul Simon, Sarah McLachlan, The Temptations, tim westergren, Van Morrison
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Saturday morning–by the numbers
Time left the house: 7:30am Number of yard sale jewels bought for Gretel: 4 (note to self–it’s Mother’s Day tomorrow. Shouldn’t The Crone be the one being showered with gifts?) Number of super woofer speakers bought for Hansel: 2 (well, … Continue reading
Posted in Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel, itchy ankle, yard sale finds
Tagged bee balm, Blarney Crone, calories, day lilies, exercise, forget-me-nots, gifts, Hansel and Gretel, Japanese maple, juvenile delinquents, Mother's Day, Numbers, plants, Saturday morning, snakes, super woofer
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