Ross and Brand (my thoughts)

I listened to the offending piece on You Tube and found it funny...at first. However, it simply went on too long and too far. Boys will be boys but the difference when you are a middle aged boy is that you know when to stop. Hopefully before you've shot yourself in the foot. I actually do find it offensive when people say crude things in front of my children.
But another point I have been pondering is that maybe this "row" is in fact not so much about these two but a shift in public taste.
Times are tough and maybe people are feeling less "frivolous" right now. A debate about public morality is interesting.

You wear it well

I was leafing through a glossy magazine the other day when I caught a whiff of perfume. It was an advert for a new perfume, Notorious. When I opened the sleeve and sniffed I was suddenly reminded of the perfume Opium and my student days. I used to always wear it when going out at night.
Isn't it funny how a scent can "belong" to someone? My mum's friend always had Chanel no. 5 soap, and I can always recognise Allure on anyone.
Ysatis is a walkway of shops in Singapore 20 years ago for me.
Yes, perfume is truly evocative.
My 13 year old son, on the other hand, has started spraying Lynx. There is such a thing as spraying too much...

Long project finished

My latest portrait has proved quite difficult. The sitter is really busy and is not available to come for sittings. So I managed to complete the whole thing in just two life sittings and the rest using photographs.
We haven't really discussed money but I expect I'll be lucky to cover costs.

To graze or not to graze?

We have a field at the back of the house and I've been thinking about getting two small cattle to graze.
Research tells me that the Dexter breed is small and friendly. And owning grazing animals gets over the problem of having overgrown grass.
The down side, of course, is that if you have beef cattle you will probably become attached to them and not want them to become meat when the time comes.
The alternative would be to have dairy cattle but I can't see me in wellingtons and a nightie out milking at 6am every day!
But since getting the rabbit and watching her graze her little patches of grass, I can see the sense in having grazing animals.
Only problem is, my hubby doesn't want to know. Anyone got any experience of smallholdings?