Yes, it’s that time of year again: my second Geblogstag.
And what gems can I share with you to mark this auspicious day?
Perhaps you should be made aware of the Mystery of the Missing Peg Bag. Mrs Tiggywinkle is entirely flummoxed. Her jolly red peg bag is nowhere to be found. She has hunted high and [...]
Filed under: Mrs Tiggywinkle on August 9th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Thank you gentle readers for your valuable comments on my quest to reorganise myself.
I have taken your advice and have been implementing the new strategy of shredding almost everything. All the wage slips have been chewed, old contracts of employment and I’m about to start on the old bills. I have a feeling that my [...]
Filed under: Life, Mrs Tiggywinkle on May 26th, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It has been somewhat quiet at Tiggywinkle Translations for some, well, weeks, really so Mrs Tiggywinkle has been bustling around making up for all those hours spent at the translation face when she might have been domestically employed doing the following:
Ironing (obviously…this is Mrs Tiggywinkle’s real raison d’etre)
Laundry
Hand washing
Planting up window boxes
Sorting out admin for [...]
Filed under: Life, Mrs Tiggywinkle, Translation on May 20th, 2009 | 6 Comments »
and much laundry has been washed. Now, to help me through the remaining 26 pages of my 116, I shall need the services of Mrs Tiggywinkle who has not been in evidence for about 10 days.
While I have been beavering away, I have had visits from Germany, Argentina and the Czech Republic. One [...]
Filed under: Life, Mrs Tiggywinkle, Translation on June 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now that Mrs Tiggywinkle has done all the ironing, the latest displacement activity appears to have presented itself: making elderflower cordial.
On Sunday, realising that I was going to be away for the next two weekends, I dashed up to the fields behind the house to gather my elderflowers. It wasn’t an optimal day as my [...]
Filed under: Food, Mrs Tiggywinkle, Translation, Words on June 2nd, 2008 | Comments Off
Gentle readers, I am pleased to announce that I have just finished page 88 of 88. Phew! I just have to go through a few odds and ends tomorrow and then I can deliver the whole jolly thing to the client. (There is a little niggle at the back of my mind, but I shall [...]
Filed under: Mrs Tiggywinkle, Translation, Triumphs on May 29th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the dilemmas of taking on as large an assignment as the current one (sorry, did I not mention I am doing a very long assignment on education? How remiss of me) is that one has to consider the needs of one’s Stammkunden. The few regular customers I have rely on me (I [...]
Filed under: Mrs Tiggywinkle, Translation, Triumphs on May 27th, 2008 | Comments Off
The ironing was such a tonic that I rushed to find some more laundry. It will dry (hopefully) overnight and there will be another heap to gladden my heart tomorrow.
I may re-name my business Mrs Tiggywinkle Translations. Or just forget the translations bit… I’d probably make as good a living doing other people’s washing and [...]
Filed under: Mrs Tiggywinkle, Translation on May 27th, 2008 | Comments Off
Gentle readers, as it is Saturday, I thought I would share with you some thoughts on being a Hausfrau. This is the first entry in an occasional and no doubt mercifully short series for I do not consider myself to be a Hausfrau in any efficient sense of the word. It is perhaps only [...]
Filed under: Mrs Tiggywinkle on March 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments »