Archive for August, 2009
the comfort of ‘home’
This post comes to you from the blustery shoreline at Hillhead, between Southampton and Lee-on-Solent. It’s bitterly cold down here on the beach and the high winds have attracted the local kite surfers in their droves, joined by friends, family and other onlookers, yours truly included. The cold air catches in your throat and you [...]
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Six weeks ago, The Mother started meddling. She caused a huge argument between me and my little sister. It has been six weeks since The Mother spoke to me. It appears that her vicious tongue and inability to control her desperate need to gossip at the expense of everyone else’s feelings are my fault rather [...]
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Another night with next to no sleep. It’s gotten so stupid that I was outside the doctors’ surgery before it opened this morning, waiting in the queue for a late-release appointment.
We’re starting off with sleeping tablets to try and help get the biorhythms back to how they should be. I also have a note to [...]
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The Meerkat was up and about last night sorting out his room until well after I went to sleep.
My alarm went off this morning and the flat was eerily quiet – quieter than I have ever known it. The woman upstairs stirred and the floorboards above me creaked under the weight of her getting up. [...]
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polly and the tumour (again)
So it was a tumour.
Polly went in for her operation first thing on Monday morning. The Mechanic called at regular intervals to let me know how things were progressing: she’s just going in to the vet; the op should be starting about now; they’ve called to say she’s out and in recovery; I’m going to [...]
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the meerkat’s final joke*
I got home to my Clapham place about 5.45pm. The Meerkat’s head appeared at his bedroom door as he greeted me. I asked how he’d been and he informed me that he was well. He’d only just got in minutes ahead of me.
Hmmm, I thought, he had said he was coming back today and leaving [...]
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being a total geek
I appear to be quite pushed for time today.
The highlight of my move thus far has come today: I joined the local library.
This is something I have been looking forward to for quite a while. I think that makes me a bit of a geek. I was pretty impressed by it all, to be honest. My [...]
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keys and bums
This has to be quick. Very busy today!
We were out this weekend for The Mechanic’s sister’s 18th birthday celebrations in Bournemouth, which was good drunken fun and took me back to my uni days. We all dressed up as school girls, including the boys. The Mechanic’s efforts below (with some bloke he met outside Tesco [...]
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I have moaned before about Radio One (I’ll insert links to past posts at some point if I can be bothered) and this morning’s journey out to our Woking office saw me irked and feeling old yet again. As I have said before, at the ripe old age of 26 (big gasp) I am no longer of [...]
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a levels
My youngest cousin did impossibly well in her A Levels. She bagged herself four As. Of course, I am delighted for her – we all are – even though she trumped my three As and one B effort back in 2001.
Not that anyone asks anymore. I only left school eight years ago and the grades [...]
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