He had a beautiful black coat. It wasn’t quite long, but it wasn’t very short, either. Soft cheeks. Sharp ears. And tufts of hair behind his ears that were very nice to nuzzle. I called him Midnight.
Midnight was a hitchhiker that caught a ride with my friend on a [...]
To mock or ridicule. Also a slang term for eating something very quickly.
To go bad, like milk after the expiration date. Not to be confused with ‘going on about’.
This has very little to do with our lives in London. It’s more personal than that. I hope you can handle it.
It’s a phrase used like ‘we’ll talk later’, or to signify the closing of a conversation at the same time suggesting that there will be more to come at an undisclosed time in the near future.
Chair rail, the interior decorating kind. Yup, I’m serious.
Trim (as in the interior decorating term), the kind that goes along the bottom of the wall touching the floor.
Crown Moulding.
Sometimes it is a challenge to be me. I have a lot of free time and I am really fabulous. Do you know how hard that makes behaving?!
In addition to the common meaning, it is also used to mean ’starting at’. (i.e. Dinner is served at this restaurant from 6pm.)
Some of you may have expected it when you heard Ticketmaster closed the echo offices, but after almost four months of working for Ticketmaster proper – I am moving on to a new gig…
Stir. (‘Would you like me to mingle your tea bag?’)
Flashlight.
This is my new friend. Yeah, uhh. Okkaayyy.
Mission: yummy pre-cinema food that wouldn’t take all night.
It’s like ’smarty pants’, but can be either complimentary or derogatory in a teasing way, I think. (Aren’t you a clever clogs for visiting the site today?!)
‘Tick the box’ is a term used very often in London to mean that one has placed a figurative or literal tick in a box next to an item in a To Do list to denote that the ticked item has been done.
Here, we use it the way we use the word ‘orient’. I think the meanings have just been confused.
These shoes have nothing to do with this post, but I am so jealous of Drew’s cool new trainers that I can’t help myself. I am also jealous that he can wear his trainers to work.
With a record number of comments, we have successfully named a winner in the Happy Anniversary to Us Giveaway! Now I know what I must do with my day.
I can’t explain why I am drawn to this building, but it’s almost like an anchor. This is the defining feature of my London neighborhood. It’s the place I ran to when I had the most to lose. For some reason, this big church means something inexplicably special to me.
We don’t have advertisers, investors, or blue chip sponsors. Yet. So for now, we ask you to join us in enjoying the simpler pleasures in life.
Operating Room, as in a surgical theatre. (It makes surgery sound so dramatic, don’t you think?!)
Carbonated (as in a carbonated beverage).
Whew. I am tired of being in transit and making decisions – and I am not talking about decisions over what to make for dinner or who to make fun of on X-Factor. (Not that I can even pretend to be able to sit through an entire episode of X-Factor, let alone make fun of someone on said show…)
First of all, who popularized the phrase ‘Holy Cow’, and secondly, how did October sneak up on me?! Ok, it didn’t sneak up, I just wasn’t paying attention when the clock struck midnight.
Non-carbonated, as in still water.
