Hurrah for presents!

Went to the doctors this morning, and had a little time to kill beforehand so went for a mooch round the shops. I had been looking for a winter coat for a while and my interest in warm threads has sharpened considerably over the last week, being as it has not risen about 5 degrees [...]

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Mediation

Had our first session last night and it went really well, although it was very sad.
With any luck, we both qualify for free sessions. The mediators organise the paperwork for you, getting the settlements and childcare arrangements, and future provisions, sorted and then they produce a Memorandum of Understanding that you can either take to [...]

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… but they’re better when….!

It’s sunny and cold outside, the trees are beautiful, and I have an appointment for the doctors on Friday. I have made my Tax Credit application. I have been told I will be eligible for housing benefit when I (eventually) move out. I am going to dig the garden and make it look nice, no [...]

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Yer Know Things are Crap When…

Ahhh, fuck it. I give up!
We’re in negative equity with the house, first problem. The agents in my home town are a spineless bunch of doom-mongering twats, bar a very few. So we’re going on the market for £5,000 more than the mortgage and have been confidently informed that we’ll never get it, or if [...]

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Organised and Dangerous

I am like many, I suspect; I can float along feeling vague and worried and not getting anything accomplished for a certain amount of time. Then I get pissed off, and start jackbooting around, beating myself over the head with a swagger stick and issuing commands in a suspiciously thick accent… viz.
” ORGANISE, you Schewinhund! [...]

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Feels like 2 years ago

Up at 3.30 this morning. Of course, there’s nothing one can usefully DO at this time of day without waking the whole house up. So one lies abed, grinding teeth and worritting about stuff.
THEN, because I’m awake, Mouse wakes up, at 5.30, just as I’m feeling sleepy enough to grab an extra hour’s kip.
I am [...]

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Less Embattled

It’s sunny, beautiful and crisp outside, and the trees are doing their shocking best to go all the colours I love the most in the Autumn. Actually they remind me of the colours of the flowers in my wedding bouquet; orange, scarlet, gold, magenta. I know this is an odd analogy to draw, but I’m [...]

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Slomo Backlash

So it’s beginning, the backlash comedown paranoia unpleasantness and I just want to be out of it all.
I sound down and I am, and I suppose there are those who would say I deserve to be after what I’ve set in motion. Well, you fuckers, I don’t deserve it; and anyone who says I do doesn’t [...]

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The Luck of Old Nick

Celebrating Brother Al, who put $20 in a slot machine in Vegas and won $1000. Al, I salute you!

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Where’s the wind-down?

It might be nice, universe, if we could get onto the wind-down phase of 2008 with some celerity! You’re speeding things up, which is disconcerting me slightly.
So Brussels was wonderful fun and extremely informative and useful for us as a company. I got some good prospects for work out of companies I already do business [...]

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