Nice precis, poppy! You should do that at the end of every day!
Sorry, been a bit absent, but only because I've been busy what with being a real proper single parent: Tim left this morning, Mum and Dad have been away since last Thursday, and it's quite a shocker to be honest! Iestyn goes to nursery, but I don't speak to anybody!! (Still don't have an office...)
Except...my FIL, who totally annoyed me on the phone. I really need to take a chill pill, because everybody is annoying me these days. But this is why he annoyed me ():
- They had just been to Oxford and he clearly wanted to talk about that. I didn't really take the bait, but then he blurted out how hard it was to go to Oxford, and not call in to see their son at Jesus College. Er, he left more than 15 years ago, and he was speaking to me as if I should be impressed at The Son at an Oxford College. I was there - and from a non-privileged background, and being a woman!!
- He asked where my parents went on holiday, and I said 'the borders'. He said 'oh Hadrian's Wall'. I said no, the Welsh borders, and he said 'oh, I forget we have a few borders'. ????!!!???! Is it just me or is that weird and totally, I don't know, I can't even think of the word?
- Finally, in an attempt to be clever (which I am ) I said 'perhaps I should have said the Welsh marches'. He said 'like the Scottish marches'. (There is no such thing as the Scottish marches.) Then he said 'or the English marches, of course'. Which is...what??? (My masters is on the Marches. From a small college in the Midlands.)
Am I just annoyed because he's trying to sound clever but hasn't a clue what he's talking about and therefore is being smug and ignorant? Or is there a somewhat negative tone to his comments. (Is that word colonial? No, Empire, something like that?)
This is just building up - I've spent too much time alone!
p.s. not as much time alone as Sponge, though, starting a THREAD on DOND!!! With a little bit of eh Sponge, not seen it for months!