I went to bed early last night (still ill 😦 so I’m getting tired easily); as a consequence I’m awake in the middle of the night. This is when my random ideas start to escape and if I don’t write them down I won’t get back to sleep.Continue reading “Now there’s a word I haven’t heard in a while…”
Category Archives: Personal
The Christmas Card Reciprocity Dilemma
I said I’d write about this, didn’t I?
The title is a misnomer really; it isn’t a dilemma for me. Small children and
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Observe
As regular readers might have noticed, I went to Nottingham at the weekend. Unfortunately my preexisting cold has got worse because instead of spending the weekend wrapped up in bed drinking lots of hot lemon and honey I went out in to the world and tried to be normal.
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Last & First
This afternoon I’m on the road again, my last adventure of the year. I’m going to a concert in Nottingham. It’s also the first concert I’ve been to those year. I’ve had to arrange a babysitter for the Hell Hounds and everything.
Novel update
I’ve just realised I haven’t written anything about the novel I’ve spent the last year working on, not for a while at least.Continue reading “Novel update”
I’m not very good at this assertiveness thing.
I started a new job at the beginning of November, in a call centre. Training finished on Wednesday, so yesterday was the first day I took calls.Continue reading “I’m not very good at this assertiveness thing.”
The Voting Dilemma
Morning all, I hope you’re having a fantastic day?
A coincidence of thoughts and events has prompted this morning’s ramblings. Continue reading “The Voting Dilemma”
Worst place to shop?
This is old news now but I wrote this last week and haven’t had a chance to get it online before now.
I read an article on The Independent’s website over the weekend, about terrible places in the UK to shop. Dudley, apparently, is the worst and London is the best place to go for retail therapy.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/the-10-worst-places-to-shop-in-the-uk-947129.html
None of that is surprising, London is a shopping addicts paradise, but I think they must have limited the survey that the list is based on to towns over a certain population size, because Immingham should definitely be on that list.
Split personality; or, What on Earth am I going to wear for ‘dress down day’
For a charitable donation tomorrow at the New Job we humble workers will be permitted to wear whatever we please. Within a strict set of parameters. Nothing offensive or insulting, the sort of thing.
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Blodmonath
Sacrifice.
Everything Is Better With Dragons 