Things got weird last week. Life is always weird in Greenland in one way or another, which is kind of nice generally. But last week they got weird in a bad way. First Trump said he wanted to buy Greenland. That was pretty funny. But while we were all laughing, Trump was getting cross. A …
Month: August 2019
Last Thursday, I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back to sleep. Then I made the fatal error of switching on my phone. This is what I saw. “President Trump Eyes a New Real Estate Purchase: Greenland.” An article in the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had, for some …
The two boys had been playing all day and, with dinner approaching, I told my son’s friend it was time for him to head home. “Dad can’t pick me up at the moment,” he said, disappointedly packing his bag to head down to the bus stop, “He’s butchering a reindeer.” The first of August is …
The other day, my husband commented that our bean bag could do with more beans, and I scowled. We have a bean bag with a long and mixed history. It was given to my husband by a rather beautiful friend of ours, which – I suspect – is why he remains attached to it. Otherwise …