Pas de chat

…literally. She has been taken back to the shelter.
She kept getting beaten up by our neighbour’s scraggy piece of shit. She was going to get chased under a car at any moment. And then, this week, when the doctor suggested ‘getting rid’ because R was probably allergic to her it sealed her fate.
I say fate, [...]

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Arseholery

There’s things I can deal with then there’s things I cannot.
I am a member of various forums, and one in particular (I name no names, cause this is my fight) I have grown tired of. Simply because you can’t post without some smartass jumping down your neck. The premise of the site is that everyone [...]

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Bank Holiday Frostbite + Darfur = Rant

For god’s sake.
Rain, winds, inclement interludes, microbursts, fog and even snow have been forecast for this weekend. It’s June next week, what the hell’s going on? And before any smartass says, ‘global warming’, I’d mention that  a) Bank Holidays are supposed to do this in Britain but it’s still disappointing and b) if global warming [...]

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Let’s bring back the 50’s

New Plan – to cut up the cartes du credit and spend no more than I earn every month. I think it was Mr Micawber who said that if you were sixpence in credit at the end of a year you were a winner (to severely paraphrase Dickens). This makes sense to me.
Added to which, [...]

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Through gritted teeth

So we were on our way to dad’s and stopped off at Membury to get some dinner. I am ashamed to say it was Burglar King but there you are. Everyone’s principles slip now and again.
Standing in line I had leisure to observe the woman serving. About 5′7″, brown hair and a peaked cap which [...]

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All hail Gok Wan!

This man is a saviour, a messiah come to liberate women from the yoke of the poor self-image.
He’s gay, but loves women. ALL women. Fat, thin, lumpy, crap posture, useless clothes and underwear – everyone’s got a redeeming feature. Instead of bullying, he encourages. Instead of crash diets, he advocates Spanx, the scary stomach-holding-in pants [...]

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Deliquescence

What a gorgeous word this is – and it can be used to describe exactly the sort of weekend it has been here…. moisture rising, moisture falling, greenness and dripdripdrip…. perfect English summer weather, in fact. The river, last week so parched it was practically syrupy, is flowing freely and with a busy rustle which [...]

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The Bacofoil Sheikh

My colleague Paul, the world’s Most Positive Man, is up a scaffold inside the unit today, attempting to insulate the roof. This is trying even his superhuman patience as the sticky stuff don’t stick, the staples don’t go in and so we have £650-odd of slinky space-age insulation sheeting sitting around idle.
I just went out [...]

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Auditohbugger…

It was our third maintenance audit today, prior to recertification, and it was like being danced upon by a herd of buffalo. We didn’t pass. That is not to say we failed, but we are to be re-tested in August. I can’t wait…
ISO9001:2000 is all very well in its way, but you need to speak [...]

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Hooray for nice people!

The B & B was run by a woman who was so nice, so sympatico, so tuned in to the whole difficulty with taking children away for the weekend, that I didn’t need to explain or apologise when R got up at 4am and proceeded to booster about yawping. Althought I did both explain AND [...]

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