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Archive for April, 2009

In which I examine my attitude to Others…

Posted in ...everything else!, Dating, Friends, Navelgazing on April 27, 2009 | 8 Comments »

I love hindsight. It’s such a powerful tool for making oneself feel tiny. If you hate yourself enough, you can actually skewer yourself on the tip of your hindsight spear and wander about like some cursed knight of old, condemned to be impaled forever on the forks of your own regret.
However, I don’t hate myself [...]

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Grammatical Pet Hates # 754

Posted in ...everything else!, Grammar Fail on April 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Noticed today on the website of a multinational company who should certainly know better:
All fields marked with an asterix must be completed
If the requisite fields are indeed denoted by the appearance of a small Gaulish warrior I am yet to be aware of it!  When I pointed the faux pas out to the company in [...]

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The Devil makes work for idle hands…

Posted in ...everything else!, Happiness, Home, Lurking, Sleep on April 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »

… and therefore I am working on a Public Holiday, to avoid the possibility of temptation!!
I realised the corrupting power of decadence, yesterday evening; lying at full stretch on the couch, touching neither end, one of the 6 or is it 8 cushions settled under my head like a cranberry coloured cloud. Like being hugged by [...]

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Wild Night, Fresh Morning

Posted in ...everything else!, Happiness, Weather on April 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »

As I was reading Jane Eyre last night (coming up to the interplay between Jane and Rochester – perfectly observed human emotion, reined in by ruthlessly austere and balanced prose) I realised that every window in the house was singing. I have them open on the latch – these uPVC windows have a halfway-latched setting [...]

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New Sofa Niceness

Posted in ...everything else!, Divorce, Happiness, Home, Lurking, Niceness, Presents, Sleep, Writing on April 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »

A while ago I mentioned that I had a new sofa on order, and I got the call that the elves have finished constructing her and she’s on her way to me on Thursday!
This, let it be understood, is a leviathan, a behemoth, an ocean liner in plum-coloured chenille; hand made, 8 foot in length, with too [...]

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So relaxed I’m lying flat

Posted in ...everything else!, Food, Friends, Garden, Happiness, Lurking, Niceness, Travel, Weather on April 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Ahhhh…. that’s it! The result of good vibes, good friends, good food, good weather and fresh air in abundance. I have had a wonderful weekend.
Judging by my other rantings over the last seven days you might say there’s a case to be made for needing this sort of weekend; had I not got it I might [...]

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Off I Trot

Posted in ...everything else!, Food, Friends, Garden, Happiness, Lurking, Niceness, Sleep, Travel on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

See you folks on Monday! I’m going over East to take a load off and really relax. Have good ones, wherever you are!

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Frankly Dyspeptic

Posted in ...everything else!, Rants on April 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Today needs to go and never come back, or maybe I do!! People are causing me to become less of a dashing, scintillating, twinkle-eyed charmer than I am habitually wont to be.
I find the practised ease with which certain of my closest push the buttons and cause the hackles to rise to be amazing. It’s [...]

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Stop fucking well telling me what to DO!

Posted in ...everything else!, Rants on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There, that’s better.
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Or, no, perhaps it isn’t!

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The Sap is Rising

Posted in Countryside, Happiness, Weather on April 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Coming back from a meeting across the county, this lunchtime, I was struck by the hazy air – the result of the greenness of trees shakin’ it loose and breathing into the air once again.
It’s really spring – birds nesting, friends nesting, all of us obeying some long-forgotten biological imperative that’s doubly strong at this [...]

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