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Some of you may not realise just how hard and unnatural it is for me to behave anything like a responsible adult sometimes. You don't know (because I've always been careful not to tell you) that I'm a person whose instinctive reaction to an electricity bill or a demand for council tax is to throw the brown envelope away without opening it - because ( Read more... )

Just finished Ashes of Victory, and oh oh oh such an ending! Beautiful work. It got off to a slower start than the others in the series, but by the end it had sucked me in so much more - possibly because I may be the only person reading this series who's less enamoured of massive space battles than the complex interactions of policy, expediency, ( Read more... )

Goooood morning LiveJournal!

Just come from the evil corner shop. I know, technically, that Asda are far more evil, but the corner shop (which in any case is also part of a big corporation) is a much greater evil influence in my life. The customers are all chavs, someone always turns up with another dog (usually a Staffie) while my lads are tied ( Read more... )

Squish is obsessively eating grass today. This probably means I'll be cleaning up puke before day's end. It's also very frustrating for Spike, having to stand still while his compatriot grazes like a dairy cow, but I alleviate that a little by letting him play tug-of-war with the leash. I probably shouldn't do that on principle, but I include some ( Read more... )

It says something about how fortunate - or perhaps merely optimistic - I am when the only thing capable of moving me to vicious rantage is the arseholes who don't pick up after their dogs. It's especially annoying when they use the same dog walking routes as I do, because I know my dogs are far more attractive and memorable and conspicuous than ( Read more... )

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