Wider Horizons of The Hairy Chef - Latest Comments

Re: What’s your Mum up to Today?

Thehairychef — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:19:34 -0000

I'm glad we all agree then...even she seems to!

Re: What’s your Mum up to Today?

Maureen — Fri, 11 May 2012 05:34:48 -0000

So true James, this is courage personified, and knowing that you care and honour that courage makes it worth the effort. We wait and hope.....and miss you across the miles. Together we care for one very amazing lady I am so glad to call my friend.

Re: What’s your Mum up to Today?

Grace — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:29:23 -0000

Yes, that does make her courageous. Or even beyond that.
My mum is 79 this year and yesterday, she boarded a plane to go to her home country for a couple of weeks of rest and to be with her siblings. I'll be thinking of her, especially on Sunday.

Re: The First Steps

Seth_d_phillips — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:55:48 -0000

That's one small step for James, one giant leap for the Colombian Health Department..

Re: When the Small Things Get Smaller

Thehairychef — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:18:36 -0000

Sleep? Sounds like you'd be a perfect candidate to work as an EFL teacher pulling 4:30 am strarts 5 days a week...fancy a trip to Colombia?

Re: When the Small Things Get Smaller

Thehairychef — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:47:49 -0000

Hey at least they don't put explosives in your letter box and then drag your wheelie bin 50m down the road. You know...last time I watched my mum go to the toilet I was 2...and apparently I insisted on her letting me wear a sanitary pad to preschool. Count yourself lucky.

Re: When the Small Things Get Smaller

MsMandie — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:09:38 -0000

To go to the toilet or have a shower without my 2 year old watching.
For my neighbours to stop shoving their junk mail in my letter box. Tossers.
And I'm with Glow - a sleep in.
Yep, the small things. Thanks for the opportunity to vent...!

Re: When the Small Things Get Smaller

Glowless — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:55:40 -0000

A sleep in. It's all I want. GIVE IT TO ME!

Re: When the Small Things Get Smaller

Thehairychef — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:46:00 -0000

I think you might just have hit the nail on all of it's little heads. I'd like to add not having a flatmate how slams the door at 3am... But that's all!! Hopefully I will solve the bread problem this afternoon... And why is this comment as you? How can this computer not tell us apart?? I AM NOT HAIRY!!

Re: When the Small Things Get Smaller

Fussy Eater's Mum — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:54:29 -0000

Hi, I just found your blog from Glowless. How interesting. I was just complaining to myself about some petty things, and now it all doesn't seem that bad when you consider I could have a bedroom ceiling growing mould. Look forward to reading more.

Re: Starting a Conversation

Thehairychef — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:35:13 -0000

I can't explain how awesome it is to get positive feedback on a project like this that is so personal. I'm thrilled you responded so positiviely to it

Re: Starting a Conversation

Lycheeck — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:15:26 -0000

Beautiful. Thank you for putting this doco together. You reminded me how hard is for young ones growing up with a disorder. I have a bipolar father, but it only reared its ugly head in my early 20's...I can't imagine what it would be like for a child having to look after their siblings or parents at such a young age. My heart goes out to all those young ones that have to grow up so quickly :)

Re: A Brief Reminder of the Slow Kind

Jennypengelley — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:21:49 -0000

I see that you are beginning to think in Spanish, darling. How do I see this - why your spelling is becoming Spanishified; and here I am assuming a certain Englishification of your spelling that is tenuous at least! However one must note that some spelling errors do, in actual fact, change the meaning of the expressed witticism. I am absolutely certain that the 'DIETY of pigeons'' is as distant in concept from the 'DEITY of pigeons' as immanence is from transcendence (of a deity, but not a diety!).

HA! All you admiring followers of The Hairy Chef...now you can see clearly that the much of a chap's intelligence (and incomprehensibility, not too mention verbosity) comes from the mother....

Re: The Irony of it all

Daisy — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:47:25 -0000

My husband is the first to tell me how bad his boo-boos are, but the last to admit he should need to go to a dr. Why? Really, why?

Re: The Irony of it all

Jennifer Worrell — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:09:22 -0000

Why do you men always want to go and hurt yourselves? Funny!

Re: And Here’s to You, Kind Sir: People’s Choice Awards 2012

Rachel Wernicke — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:52:31 -0000

Good luck!! Rachel

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Re: Filling the Gaps with Quinoa

Robyn — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:25:44 -0000

You have made me laugh out loud again....

Re: In Defence of the Undefendable

Jennypengelley — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:53:49 -0000

I read, with interest, that you and Jane have felt certain pressures to rethink, and perhaps even abandon, your South American adventure. Not from your mother though. She knows that both of you have the wisdom and emotional stability to withstand difficult, challenging events. Wherever you are in the world - it was in Perth that Jane had her awful accident, ending up in hospital for a few days, needing your love and support. Which you gave in abundance with no regard for the cost to your heart to see her suffering. Stolen laptop and cameras? Pshaw - c'est rien!!

It is my belief that the very best way to experience anything is to drown yourself in it, whether that is swimming the English Channel, dancing like no-one is watching or living in another country - like Colombia for example. Gringos may be targeted by thieves and card skimmerers in Colombia - so you have now had a total immersion experience of both!! Live it - the Colombian experience. Keep yourselves as safe as possible but don't hang back or run away. Or take idiotic risks - you have already done that bungee jumping, sky diving and looking over the edge of one of the world's biggest waterfalls. Maybe listening to Shakira is danger enough now!

You know that my second deepest wish is to go to Perth Airport to meet your home-coming plane. My deepest wish is to know that you have explored what you are doing as fully, as widely and as richly as you decide that you need. And thus you will become even more who you are.

A bit fucking touchy-feely I know, but live as you have always lived darling boy and illegitimi non carborundum.

I love you

Re: Do you have a….you know…

Jennypengelley — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:31:50 -0000

He really ought to ask his mother.....but as he hasn't, and I am she.....please feel free to spread the cynicism around!!!!!!

Re: Do you have a….you know…

Jennypengelley — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:30:36 -0000

Reply as seen above dear...

Re: Do you have a….you know…

Jennypengelley — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:29:38 -0000

Creative licence is fine, but your use of this goreous, if culturist, acronym has completely changed the meaning of it.....

Re: Do you have a….you know…

Sandra — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:49:50 -0000

”NQOS" (D) - awesome! May I borrow it?

Re: Videos

Sandra — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:42:25 -0000

love the video Cusco NY.

Re: Do you have a….you know…

Thehairychef — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:09:28 -0000

Duly noted, though must I remind you of my right to exercise creative license?

Re: Do you have a….you know…

Jennypengelley — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:38:50 -0000

The acronym that your mother ACTUALLY uses is NQOSD - Not Quite Our Sort Dear, and she uses it as she is driving through Spearwood or Morley, looking snootily down her nose at the concrete pergolas and the tyre swans filled with dying geraniums. It is a point of culture not wealth because as we know dear - wealth buys neither taste nor culture.
Quote her correctly dear.