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Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:54:23 PM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Life Out of Pyjamas:
Susannah said, "Well, perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s turning into a busy spring. Which means I am having to spend distressingly long periods of time actually dressed in real clothes and not loafing in ratty – but oh, so comfortable – attire. On reflection,..." more
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:51:54 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Life Out of Pyjamas:
Susannah said, "Well, perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s turning into a busy spring. Which means I am having to spend distressingly long periods of time actually dressed in real clothes and not loafing in ratty – but oh, so comfortable – attire. On reflection,..." more
Thursday, January 5, 2012 2:56:17 PM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled It was 50 years ago today…..:
Susannah said, "…When Steptoe and Son first rode onto our screens. They did so in ‘The Offer’, an episode of Galton and Simpson’s Comedy Playhouse, broadcast on January 5th 1962. The show had been rehearsed the week before and was recorded on the 4th...." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Are You Sitting Comfortably?:
Susannah said, "I have been nobbled.My daughter’s teacher has asked me to come in for Book Week and read Dragon’s Dinner to Reception and year 1. And then entertain them for half an hour. - Great, looking forward to it.And then I could stay on and entertain the..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Chasing Butterflies:
Susannah said, "I have been chasing butterflies. I would like to report this has been in a wildflower meadow, with me running in slow motion, clad in a floaty Laura Ashley number - all of it promising a soft focused assignation with a Cadbury’s flake. Sadly this..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled 9, 11, 12, 10:
Susannah said, "New Yorkers say that the shortest period of time is the millisecond between the lights turning green and the cab behind you honking its horn. Which says a lot about New Yorkers.Very soon, the shortest period of time will be the nanosecond between..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Book Week – in a World Gone Mad:
Susannah said, "I would hereby like to apologise to anyone who came within orbit during the final countdown to my author visit at No. 1 daughter’s school. The night before D-Day I went to bed looking like a stewardess about to ask, “Does anybody know how to fly..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled "Who Shall I Say is Calling?":
Susannah said, "I am waiting to dial…. I am about to interview an actress that worked with Harry back in the day – I’ve done a fair bit of that over the last year.I’m surprised at how many people I’ve managed to track down. When I started the research I..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Me and You and a Dog Named…..err:
Susannah said, "What’s in a name? Well quite a lot as it turns out. For, as a family, we have been trying to name the new arrival.A few days ago we went to look at, I repeat - LOOK AT - a litter of Golden Doodles. Although they do sound like a 60s Motown group,..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled A W O L:
Susannah said, "I am blogging on the terrace, darlings… Ooo, get me.I remember the early days online when there weren’t many of us and the comp made a disconcerting ‘a-wee-a-wee-a-wee-dit-dit-dit’ sound while gearing up to connect you to the rest of the..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Oh …to be in England:
Susannah said, "We are back. Any doubts that we were on the right plane were banished by the sight of the rain beading down the windows as we shimmied in for landing.Pausing to rearrange No.2 daughter on the long walk through Gatwick, I watched it sheeting down the..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Der’s a rat on me path - what am I gonna do?:
Susannah said, "Well chuck it in the hedge for a start. Oh the joys of living in the country.Mind you, they say that in London you are only ever 20feet from a rat. Chucking in the hedge there probably wouldn’t go down too well with the neighbours or ’elf and..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Advertland:
Susannah said, "Macbeth. Act V, Scene 1- Dunsinane, a room in the castle.Enter Lady Macbeth and waiting gentle woman:-Lady M: Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!Gen: I’ll put a girdle round about thy spot in forty minutes with new Whizzostain remover…In..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Microcosm:
Susannah said, "I’m an addict.I had an enabler. A friend introduced me to a game on Facebook a few weeks ago. It’s called Farmville – a virtual smallholding where you grow crops, raise animals but don’t have to worry about fluctuating market forces or..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled It’s a Wonderful Life.:
Susannah said, "A few weeks ago my brother met a new woman.He had met ‘M’ online and got chatting. Chatting led to calling and calling led to meeting. Which, naturally, led to ribbing by me. I shouldn’t… he’s an easy target. Plays it very close to the..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Holidays are coming…:
Susannah said, "Nope they’re here.According to the shops, Christmas starts the day after Halloween, or Thanksgiving, and ends when they take down the January sales signs and replace them with Valentines hearts and Cadburys Crème eggs.According to one friend they..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Why does the Virgin Mary wear blue?:
Susannah said, "I am not a deeply religious person… but then again, I’m not shallowly religious either. However I do love a good Nativity. Whether you believe The Gospel as gospel or whether you believe all modern religions are piggybacking on the moment man..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Have a Very Merry...:
Susannah said, "Twas the week before Christmas and all through the houseEvery creature was stirring, well mostly the spouse.The place had been hoovered and polished with care,All ready for in-laws who soon would be there.The children were bouncing around on their..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Where did that decade go?:
Susannah said, "It only seems five minutes since the millennium was going to take out every computer on the planet… Ten years ago I was on a beach in Lanzarote - toasting in 2000 by the glow of a burning surfboard… hang ten dudes.Not my most memorable New Year..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled White Out:
Susannah said, "MONDAYOne day left until school starts. Spend day sewing name labels into bigger uniform. Tomorrow, will finally be able to get back to work on book. Tomorrow, will no longer be Officer of Morale. Tomorrow, will not have phone call/ shower/ pee..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Normal Service Resumed:
Susannah said, "Ahh… The Holidays are now but a faded memory; they melted with the snow – the only proof they were here the continuing presence of presents I haven’t found a home for yet. I am back working on Harry’s biography. Spending any free hours..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Morlock Tugging:
Susannah said, "During the run up to my wedding the reception hotel rang to inform that Everton FC had booked out all the remaining non wedding guest rooms.The thought of sharing one’s nuptials with a squad of premiership footballers did raise the eyebrow of..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:36 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Ode To The Better:
Susannah said, "Shall I compare thee to a Toyota?Thou art as wild and as unstoppable.The pedal of thy love is stuck down fastTo the eternal floor mat of my heart.I love thy form that never leaves my side.(So I can’t buy a Valentine’s Day cardNay, not even when..." more
Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:31:35 AM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled Sprung:
Susannah said, "Well… I think ‘It’ has finally happened. Maybe… Perhaps… Oh, Please… whisper it who dares but in this small corner of the planet …spring has arrived.Though I had my suspicions... (you all know the signs, the long since veiled yellow..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:54:24 PM
Susannah Corbett wrote a blog post titled It was 50 years ago today…..:
Susannah said, "…When Steptoe and Son first rode onto our screens. They did so in ‘The Offer’, an episode of Galton and Simpson’s Comedy Playhouse, broadcast on January 5th 1962. The show had been rehearsed the week before and was recorded on the 4th...." more