https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/reminicing/ Recent content in Reminicing on A Geek's Life Hugo en Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:12:38 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2009/10/27/in-retrospect-everything/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:12:38 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2009/10/27/in-retrospect-everything/ <p>When I was younger, I secretly believed my mother could fly. To be honest, those heels could delude anyone into believing they could - add a full flowing <em>boubou</em> and you had a superman woman right there, complete with boots and a cape! She certainly was not ultra light – all us kids, and her aversion to wastage in any and every form meant she was always only just under a healthy weight. For all my reading of <em>Essential Biology</em> I should have known that <em>real</em> mothers could not fly; only fairy god mothers could - but the anecdotal evidence seemed to suggest that mine did, for the sheer number of times she caught me pants down – <em>no pun intended.</em></p>