Universal Truths....(probably*)

The one day you walk the dog without a "poo bag" in your pocket is the day that the dog will choose to stop for its business right in front of the bus-stop queue.


There are more people driving like idiots on a Wednesday than any other day of the week.


If you do something because you think it will impress others, rather than because "it suits you", then it will be obvious to everyone that you're not comfortable with it.

Bacon cooking is the smell most likely to make a vegetarian wonder whether they did the right thing by giving up meat.

There are not so many red cars on the road as there used to be.

Everything expands to fill the space available for it with the exception of money in your purse.

A small child will always choose the quietest moment possible to say the embarrassing thing they've been storing up VERY loudly.

You never forget anything entirely unimportant.

If you're going to slip and fall, there is NEVER nobody watching.

If you do slip and fall, none of the people watching will bother to check if you're OK.

You never find out about the traffic jam until you're already stuck in it.

The most annoying thing on the road is the overhead sign telling you your speed is limited to 40mph, when you're crawling along at 20mph.

The second most annoying thing is obeying the overhead sign telling you to limit your speed to 40mph, on an absolutely clear road, with everyone whizzing past you.

If a horse is going to throw you off, it will always search out a patch of nettles to deposit you into if at all possible.

The shot you delete by accident from the camera memory card will always have been better than it's apparently identical partner, that you left behind.

That thing that you think is a secret a) probably isn't and b)  nine times out of ten those you're "not telling" wouldn't care anyway!

A cat that's allowed to sleep on your bed will immediately claim it as HER bed, and will then proceed to lie right where you want to put your legs, and refuse to budge.

Coats, Jackets, tailored trousers : Buy the best you can afford

Smart shoes & boots : buy what fits, and is comfortable

Basic tee-shirts & tops, and knickers : Buy cheap & replace often

Your feet will not, in the long run, thank you for walking long distances in unsupportive footwear, no matter how cute or trendy.

Take a coat. No, really. You'll just be cold otherwise.

If the thing you're doing makes you feel uncomfortable with yourself, just stop.

There is a HUGE difference between "I can't afford..." and "I choose not to afford..."

Just because something has a trendy label, that doesn't make you better than other folk for wearing it.

A "Things To Do" list never has nothing on it...

Slamming the drawer of a filing cabinet in anger simply ensures that it will bounce back at you with twice the force. (No, not me!)

Speaking with someone "terribly" well spoken on the telephone ensures that within seconds you sound like you're trying to do a poor imitation of a posh person, at which point their voice gains a slight "are they taking the P*** out of me?" note.

*some of them may be more observation, than fact, based! ;-)

Go on then - what are yours?

Robyn