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I pranged the new car earlier this evening. Looks like just the front bumper’s damaged (and spotlights, headlamp washers etc.) and that is currently being held in place with cable ties. Scatter your own random selection of curses, imprecations, expletives and invectives liberally ( Read more... )

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I’ve been trying out the new Refer-A-Friend system in WoW. And as I have no friends who are even remotely interested in WoW and yet are not already playing it, who else could I refer but myself?

Yes. I am now officially a dual-boxer.


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Another in our occasional ongoing series exploring just what the hell songwriters are jabbering on about, and what, if anything, can be done to bring their output a little more in line with reality.

Today: Arthur’s Theme, by Christopher Cross.

We’re going to concentrate on the ( Read more... )

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It may well be that it’s only once you’re on holiday that you realise how much you really needed one. On the other hand, it may not.

Either way, I just had a most splendid week on the west coast of Scotland with some of my lovely friends. There was wine, a trip to Skye, several ( Read more... )

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I guess one of the supposed benefits (and there are precious few) of being ill is that it gives one time to muse, and to think deep thoughts, to ponder upon the nature of existence and the meaning of life. To consider the universe and one’s place within it. To come, in short, one ( Read more... )

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This cold/flu/virus/whatever can just bite my ass.

That is all.

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The biscuit reviews return. Or will, when I write any new ones.

Dunkability. It’s like Biscuit of the Week, only more honest.

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Enough with the fake Heath Ledger grief. You didn’t know him. You didn’t know Diana. If you reserved your grief for those people actually close to you, it might actually have some meaning. More meaning than it has when you spray it like brightly-coloured vomit across the obituary ( Read more... )

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If I were designing a house which had quite a narrow front hall, I wouldn’t put the telephone master socket right by the front door, where nobody in their right mind would want to have a telephone, thus rendering it COMPLETELY USELESS.

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Am very tired, and lots of bits of me ache. But I’m in the new house and have unpacked most of the lounge. Hurrah.