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Dreadful Nonsense

"I've read your blog. it's really funny. you should write a column." - Jon Ronson


Friday Five

1. What are your favorite ways to relax and unwind?
It’s quite a new development in my life, but since moving flats I’ve been taking a lot of baths lately. Edel introduced me to the wonder of Lush bath bombs, and I’ve not looked back since. That’s my favourite way to relax. That, and reading books. But I’m not one of those people that can read in the bath – I’m too precious about getting books wet. So I listen to Radio 4 instead. Doesn’t matter what’s on – the other night, I listened to a half hour programme on the research into finding out new ways of fighting cholera.

My favourite way to unwind is to jump around my room singing / yelling at the top of my voice to the most violent songs I’ve got in my music collection. And then, always, finishing it off by listening to Joni Mitchell’s Blue album.


2. What do you do the moment you get home from work/school/errands?
I used to walk in the door and immediately take off my shoes. Now, I walk in the door and immediately walk back out again, bringing the dog out for our evening squirrel hunt. Then I come back in and take off my shoes.


3. What are your favorite aromatherapeutic smells?
I don’t have any.


4. Do you feel more relaxed with a group of friends or hanging out by yourself?
I feel much more relaxed being on my own. And even more relaxed again being on my own, but with a dog sleeping beside me. And the most relaxed I can be is when I’m on my own, with a dog sleeping beside me, knowing that my mum is in the next room.


5. What is something that you feel is relaxing but most people don't?
I find washing dishes and hoovering and general housework a very good way to work towards relaxing. I don’t find it relaxing in itself, but the sense of achievement and contentedness that it brings out in my warped and obviously irrevocably diseased mind means that I can then sit about and feel good about myself for the rest of that day. I know it’s very wrong, and I’m getting help.

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