Well my first trimester is over and I am counting down the last few days  of 2009. It is raining, I am in my pyjamas and even though I know most Edinburgh Starbucks Baristas by name, not a damn one of them will shove a couple of double tall, skinny wet lattes in a cab for me. Sigh. I cannot wait for a new year and a new slate. I never watch the Queen on Christmas day but I read in the Times that even Her Majesty said 2009 is a year best forgotten.  I think the overall theme for … Continue reading Endings, beginnings and will Starbucks ever deliver?

I feel dreadful today which is such a huge improvement as to how I have been feeling the past week and a half that I am damn near jumping for joy. I know this is a little rigid but I hate people who have the cold. Well, I hate when people who have the cold insist on coming out in public and treating us all to a blow by blow account of their suffering. I simply can’t bear the sniffing, spluttering, gasping, coughing and groaning. So of course I have been driving myself nuts with the sniffing et al, and … Continue reading Progress!