Friday, September 11, 2009

I have a cunning plan . . .

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As Oscar said, “To have cramp in one leg might be regarded as unfortunate; to have cramp in both smacks of mystical muscular messaging.” Hob...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Damnation!

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The neighbours from Hell have returned! This tragedy linked to a cramp in my right calf has taken away the first transports of delight at th...
Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Space, the universe, everything!

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I have no idea what Boolean Algebra is and I think that I can live without anyone explaining it to me. However, the word or the concept itse...
Tuesday, September 08, 2009

The Day of the Books

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Toni has gone off to do his good deed for the day and babysit for his sister – and may the good lord have mercy on his soul! Meanwhile in th...
Monday, September 07, 2009

Thoughts from the Third Floor!

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I am an exile. I sit in my lonely corner of the universe with only the music from my ipod playing in the background and a few drinks from th...
Sunday, September 06, 2009

Raise a glass!

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When our less than ideal neighbours put their crippled rat (oh alright, a rat-dog) into a plastic prison and loaded it into the back of thei...
Saturday, September 05, 2009

The shades get closer!

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A week of half days in school is over and it has left me yearning for the opportunity to teach rather than suffer another incomprehensible m...
Friday, September 04, 2009

Keep your hands to yourself!

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‘Restraint’ is one of those tricky words whose meaning I know but whose application is a little more problematical. The extensive scab on my...
Thursday, September 03, 2009

Reality hits!

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There is something about a timetable which puts freedom into perspective. Sheets of paper giving us the schedule of our weekly misery were d...
Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Home from home!

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Opening boxes of books and having a computer course: how hackneyed a second day of an interminable series of what could easily be (and by tw...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Cruel or kind?

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First day back in school. The institution had an opportunity to show that it was somehow different from the other schools in which I had sta...
Monday, August 31, 2009

The Summer's almost over!

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Thursday 27th August The reality of a new term is beginning to intrude itself into my waking moments. There is not, I have to admit, the sic...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Into every life etc etc

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There is a universal equilibrium which links pain and pleasure. I don’t really believe that, of course – but it fit...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Peel me a grape!

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Well, it hasn’t rained – but by god it wants to. We have had one of those humid or ‘close’ (as my mother would have described it) days which...
Monday, August 24, 2009

New Cycle Thefts!

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Our next door neighbour has had his bike stolen and another two have gone from surrounding houses. Our faith in the police to do anything pr...