Driving me crazy

Someone recently commented to me that it must be nice that my daughter now has her driver's licence because she can now pick me up from events etc.. Sounds great in theory, if the gaining of her licence had not coincided with a burgeoning social life.
Yes it would be handy, if I ever saw her. Do you think if I turned down the sheets and left a mint on her pillow she would get the hint?

some things never change

I have been fixedly avoiding some study I should be doing. Someone in particular reading this will know exactly what that study is. The house suddenly needs cleaning, you know that cupboard you haven't looked at in years. I have tried to pretend that neatly arranging the paperwork and putting some index labels on it actually constitutes study.

xanadu

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man

Down to a sunless sea...."

An extract from my favourite poem, not the least because of the myth behind it.