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Behold – I Write!
Well, now and then….
Toniight I came across an old floppy disc containing all my articles that have been published. I had kept some of them on various websites (notably the Oakleaf Circle site), but lost them as I moved and revamped sites.
So I was quite pleased to find them again. Anyhoo, they are [...]
Stupid Things I Have Seen Part 947….
All this week, BBC TV News has been congratulating itself on exposing an illegal immigration ring bringing in Pakistani workers, supplying them with fake documents and putting them to work as cheaply-paid undocumented labour. Good investigative journalism, and the highlight was a secretly filmed interview with a gang member boasting of how it was [...]
Feeling Good…
Hmmm…
The drugs do work! Well, so far. I’m feeling cheerful and energetic, and generally much happier and healthier than I’ve been for bloody ages. I’ll have to tell Doc G about it – he’ll be pleased that something he’s prescribed for me is finally working.
So I’ve really been charging ahead with work [...]
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Serve Me Right…
I never take any notice of sell-by dates on food. If it smells OK and doesn’t look putrid, then it’s OK to eat. So I’ve always reckoned.
So, lunchtime yesterday: I’m making myself a sandwich; I drag out an opened pot of carrot & parsnip veggie puree spread from the back of the [...]
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Idiots Damage Castlerigg
Pictures of New Age idiots digging a hole and lighting a fire in a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Anybody else feel like shoving some suitably energised crystals up the orifices of these vandals?
(English Heritage and Cumbrian Police have already been informed.)
Pro-pro-porcrastinationnnnnn….
Oh well, been put on yet another lot of pills to try out. This time, it’s Verapamil ; it’s yet another calcium blocker, like the last lot. But Doc G says it will probably suit me better, and has different side effects. I bloody hope so – the Solatol gave me permanantly dry [...]
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