The Voting Dilemma

Morning all, I hope you’re having a fantastic day?

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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.

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New and old don't necessarily sit well together

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.

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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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November Reviews: Part 1

Good evening, ladies and gents; the new job is taking up a fair bit of my time but I’ve managed to get some reading done.
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All Hallows Eve?

Evening ladies and gents.

It’s Halloween or Samhain for some people. Whether as a religious or secular occasion, it has been a few years since I gave much thought to it. I don’t celebrate either the religious festivals of All Hallows Eve etc., or Samhain. Nor am I a child so I find the whole trick or treat business a nuisance. I have dogs; random strangers knocking at the door upsets them.

from http://pixabay.com/en/photos/halloween/
from http://pixabay.com/en/photos/halloween/

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