Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Bring on the bling!

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At last I have succumbed to the prevailing cultural imperatives in Olde England (or at least Weary Wales) and decided to dip my elegant psyc...
Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Sun, Sand and Gadgets!

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[This is actually the blog for Monday the 7th May – practicalities of technology made accurate posting impossible.] My snobbery level is now...
Friday, May 04, 2007

Packing as an Art

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There is only one way to start packing for a holiday. Utilising the power of Panic! I find that the adrenaline packed potential which comes ...
Thursday, May 03, 2007

I want my money back!

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The concert that never was. This was the night that I didn’t see The Zombies. I think that this is the first time that I have got my money b...
Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Of course - not!

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When the best part of a course is escaping for a few minutes to buy five copies of The Echo, then perhaps, just perhaps something is not goi...
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

I have a little list

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Memories of the ‘novel’ that I wrote in response to the iniquitous ‘Communication Course’ rise unbidden to mind as I complete Day 2 of the t...
Monday, April 30, 2007

Are we sitting comfortably?

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I would not like to have me as a pupil in my class. Day 1 of the course for those people who have been out of work for six months. The cours...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

Got to pick a pocket or two!

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Everyone (or is it just the people I know) has his own list of the Three Great Lies. The only one which is common, and by the way the only o...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

Fortuitous accidents?

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Serendipity. I like words which have their origins in Literature (with a capital L) like the positive dictionary of neologisms ostensibly ‘i...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

One of my favourite words!

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The power of words! A single word. In the right context it can mean so much! I know (in my head) that the mere word ‘sold’ on the agent’s bo...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Frail paper?

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My past is in tatters and shreds. Quite literally. I am sure that there is supposed to be something cathartic about the cleansing which acco...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Saint Cecilia Satisfied?

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As a person who is never knowingly under gadgeted and, following the moral precepts of my mother with regard to retail imperatives, I have f...
Monday, April 23, 2007

To suffer for one's art!

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Another milestone! I'm not sure that, when I started this blog, I thought that I would be penning the 200th number while sitting on my ...
Friday, April 20, 2007

And another one bites the dust!

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Isn’t it sad how quickly what in one film is breathtaking and spectacular becomes in another clichéd and banal. Having just watched ‘Eragon’...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

If at first you dont . . . um . . .

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Well! Overweening Man has been put in his place. Again! I wrote a scintillating, witty, provocative, intriguing and seminal blog entry. Micr...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Another day . . .

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Another day, another story of breathtaking horror! Thirty two random murders in America one day, one hundred and sixty murders in Iraq the n...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Irony is not enough

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Blame is like a drug that promises so much and delivers so little. As someone who enjoys every instance of irony that comes his way, I have ...
Monday, April 16, 2007

Cardiff?

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The simpering, gyrating ‘weather person’ on BBC Wales has just used a weather map of Wales on which the most obscure places that he could th...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

It's the waiting!

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I am waiting for the Job’s Comforters to start relating their stories of how they (or more likely people they know or knew of) almost got t...