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Polyamory Tattoo
I’m sometimes deeply amused when I read the statistics for this website about the search engine queries that have led people here. For the most part they are searches for recipes, or for information on...
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All Hands To The Pump
So today has been the day when t’other half has had to start filling out forms for the job centre to see if we qualify for any assistance - even though she has interviews lined up this week. The great...
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A busy weekend
With the end of October has come a quiet Halloween spent bemusing the staff at Tesco with my skull-topped cane The Skull-Topped Cane of Doom while shopping for snacks, an extended visit from my...
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A Patchy Weekend
I’m normally pretty prompt about installing software patches so it was a bit of a surprise to find myself having a patching spree this morning. First came an HP driver patch; then a Windows update that...
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Monday Yuck
I can tell it’s a Monday, my eyes feel gritty and I really want to be curled up in bed. It is a phenomenon I’m well familiar with, as I’m sure many of you are too. Having had a relatively quiet...
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Happy Easter
Growing up in a vicarage, Easter was always a busy time. It sounds fairly self evident, but a lot of people, especially if they aren’t regular church goers, don’t realise that Easter is far more...
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Summer of Fun
The last month or so, we’ve been enjoying the fruits of a deliberate large expenditure that is now saving us huge amounts of money. We’re saving like mad for the honeymoon, true, but we’ve also been...
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Bit of a Random Day
T’other half is out somewhere in London, presumably having a good time at a colleague’s leaving do. As half expected, the “I’ll be there a couple of hours and come home for supper” hasn’t happened, so...
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Ventmode equals on
Well, I need to vent but at the same time won’t be airing all the dirty linen in public. Suffice to say that I am too angry to sleep and need to be awake in five hours. T’Other Half is fast asleep and...
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The Morning After
Its hard to stay angry when your partner is hurting, even when its self inflicted. If i’m honest, there’s an element of schadenfreude this morning so I’ll leave it at that. I’ve slept maybe three and a...
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Juggling in the Heat
It probably says a lot about both the typical British summer and the length of time that it seems to have been winter that I originally planned to start this article with a reference to it being...
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Not the kind of rollercoaster I enjoy
Today’s been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, as opposed to the type that I’m normally found talking about. It hasn’t even been easy to define quite what the problem has been either – so it was...
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Hollywood Reboots
The big bold trailer for the Robocop reboot is currently dominating my social media feeds, along with people complaining about how there’s no originality in Hollywood any more. The trailer does it’s...
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Chaos and Mayhem, It Must Be Monday
No really, all this bracing could get very self-referential So with the end of summer, a brace of brace yourself posts hits the UK. With bracing winds and torrential downpours wiping away all trace of...
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Tuesday Tantrums
I’ve been working a few extra hours at the library today to cover for someone on leave – only fair given the truly humongous amount of holiday I’ve got coming up later – and if there was one word that...
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Rough week
I’m not going into all the ins and outs of things, but it’s been a tough week on the mental health side of things, and that’s led to my dropping a couple of the juggled balls along the way. Being the...
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An Esoteric Content Censorship Primer
I don’t usually jump in on public debates like this, but I have a grave concern about the way that this legislation in the UK has been drafted and sold. In particular I believe that the use of the word...
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Zen Sarcasm
There are days where a good bit of sarcasm can make your whole day. I wandered across these a while back and saved them in a text file as possible bits of dialogue, but thought I’d share them for those...
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Maldives Honeymoon : Part One
This last week proved to be a little more exciting than anticipated. The original plan had been to let Lady M focus on recertifying for her scuba diving and possibly working towards her Advanced Diving...
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Must be the weather
This really has been a strange week, and a busy one at the library. I’ve been running an Online Basics Course for OAPs and people bullied into it by the DWP, ran this month’s Chatterbooks session, and...
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