am i just really old and boring?

31May08

I have ranted about blasted txt spk before. Not only that, but I have ranted about the use of txt spk on Facebook walls where normal typing of normal words complete with accurate spelling, grammar and punctuation is easily done (although for the average Brit these days I am not so sure that it is [...]

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he’s with the band, maaaaan

30May08

Account Manager just sent this through. I thought it might provide five minutes’ worth of semi-fun procrastination for you bored blog readers today (don’t you have work to do??)
You know how every kid dreams of being a rockstar (or pop star… or vet, although strike that one, it doesn’t work for what we are about [...]

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biking update

30May08

This morning I awoke at the crack of dawn. Well, not quite, as dawn is now before 5.20am but that’s pretty early. I was kinda pleased because it had been pissing it down last night so I was unable to take Janet out for a spin. Not literally. But I want to get some London [...]

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why are abortions rising?

29May08

Note, dear reader, this post is not about the morals and ethics surrounding the abortion debate!!
This is the question posed by a reader letter to The Scotsman this morning. The full letter (taken from here), is as follows:
Since the 1960s, there has been a huge increase in sex information and contraception availability. Since the 1980s, [...]

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the murderous chilblains*

28May08

I have just got out of the bath and am on my deathbed, awaiting the Dude With The Scythe (or as Eddie Izzard likes to say, the man with the grim reaping equipment – perhaps it is a combine harvester these days?).
I am in unimaginable pain.
Unless, of course, you too have suffered with chilblains before, [...]

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and you thought sybil was the only animal that blogs…

28May08

Taken from this morning’s Metro, this story of a penguin with a blog and a Facebook profile now casts doubt on my rat Sybil being the only blogging animal on the planet.
Bugger.
Penguin is the ping of blogs

Having your own blog and Facebook profile are essential in today’s fast moving world – even if you’re a [...]

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and back

27May08

This weekend has been long. Four days long. A lot has gone on. On Saturday, I learnt how spiteful some people can be and that I am fat, apparently. I also learnt that you can’t seem to go more than half a mile in Colchester without encountering a mini-roundabout (Dom, please verify).
Anyway, this is the [...]

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is it a bird? is it a plane?

23May08

Well, it certainly isn’t Superman.

Propeller penis disrupts political rally
Full story on the Metro website.

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quackers

23May08

It’s the end of the week. And it shows.

Today (and indeed over the past few weeks in general), I have noticed a duck obsession developing. They are just SOOOOOO cute! My folks recently bought some duck eggs from an agricultural show for hatching (rather than eating) and the chickens are nesting on them at the [...]

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beauty

22May08

I have this friend, right. And she is a pretty girl. But lately, the last, I dunno, 6 or 7 months, she has become really beautiful. She smiles and when she does, you can see true confidence, true happiness. She is comfortable about who she is, her place in the world. She told me once [...]

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