Coming soon...

New for 2014,


Introducing Bister...

Zombie gnomes, Walking Dead Monopoly and socks

See ya 2013...welcome 2014!


And so I wake out of hibernation, smash the sodding alarm clock, shoot dat damn wabbit and sit down to a warming plate of bunny curry.
7 Christmas shows, 6 tummy bugs, 5 family rows, 4 turkey breasts, 3 bottles of Baileys, 2 steaming hangovers and a bra that was meant to hold 3. ( if you have kids and do the panto you might get some of that!)

T.F.F.T! Bah humbug!

Only joking.

Christmas is well creepy, though. It makes you feel incredibly mortal, another year passing. Yet, at the same time you feel part of a bigger picture; a cell in the body of time.
Is it just me, when you 're wrapping the presents, dressing the table, cooking the food or making the beds, it feels like all the relatives of Christmas past are surrounding you, watching you, judging you?

"I never did it like that!"
"What's she doing now?"
"I'd have loved a microwave."
"What's M+S?"
"Well I never! Cauliflower cheese and Yorkshire Puds? And why is the gravy in a packet?"

We lost our beloved Nan this year. It was strange but not as sad as we anticipated. She has just joined the echelon of Christmas Dinner hostesses were, one day, (not too soon, I hope) I will be in the queue watching my great grand-daughter, tutting,

" Why the hell is she making duck a l'orange and spaghetti?!"