Friday, January 12, 2007

Computer abuse

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This is being written in electronic exile. My internet connection is not working and it is amazing how isolated I feel. Something has happen...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

Blow, blow thou winter wind!

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Now that the howling winds have lessened in their intensity (well, stopped if I am to be strictly accurate) I can survey my demesne and tak...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Penury!

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I am not one to dwell on imagined or real slights. I scorn to harp on about injustices that I have suffered. I shrug at hardship and adversi...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Bitterness continues!

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“What I really miss,” I remarked to Paul Squared yesterday, “by not reading a decent newspaper on a regular basis, is that when a phenomenon...
Monday, January 08, 2007

That Monday feeling!

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It’s only the second official time, but I have to admit that it gets better each time. I learned in school that there was something called ...
Sunday, January 07, 2007

Doing nothing!

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A lazy Sunday. It’s a concept that I have, of course, heard of – but rarely experienced. But today I am experiencing it. A long lie in and a...
Saturday, January 06, 2007

The green, green grass of home.

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When was it that the phrase, “Oh, but this country is so green!” lost its ability to make the spiteful rainfall we endure acceptable? It wa...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Fatal attraction!

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Touch pitch, and you will be defiled. and The finger that touches rouge will be red. and Evil communications corrupt good manners. and A rot...
Thursday, January 04, 2007

Absence makes the . . . ?

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What tells you that you have been absent from your home most poignantly? What item by its very appearance sighs absence when you return? Wha...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007

A century already!

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There are basic lessons that are imprinted on certain middle class children by their concerned parents. One of these lessons is contained ...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Dies irae!

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The only thing which compensates for a truly awful night of suffocation and mucus was the fact that I had finished ‘Oliver Twist’ and could ...
Monday, January 01, 2007

What's new?

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There is nothing quite as artificial as a room the morning after the night before: especially if the night before happened to have been New ...
Sunday, December 31, 2006

Cold, cold my lord!

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Up, as they say, betimes; because vertical is better than horizontal: at least I can breathe sitting down, which is more than can be said fo...

If it's not one thing it's another!

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In the midst of life we are in chocolate steeped in so far returning were as tedious as go o’er. Let’s start with the positive: yesterday I ...
Friday, December 29, 2006

"Work!" Discuss.

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Pity me as I sit here in the front room in Terrassa, like Blanche Dubois, depending on the kindness of strangers’ networks to get me onto th...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

Patience! Patience!

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Thursday 28th December 2006 - Catalonia BUREAUCRACY, Spanish: first brush with; I can now begin to write the definition which follows this e...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

A lost art needs doctorates!

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What might be called the terminal moraine of education always leaves you with interesting morsels, even if the main thrust of what was bein...

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My Name Day – Catalonia – 2006 The catalogue of catastrophe continues: the coffee machine is broken and the family plunged into horrific com...