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Month: July 2001

  • I’ll never do any work

    I’ll never do any work again. (via Simon)

  • Hmmm. Today I have to

    Hmmm. Today I have to get a ten year old dot matrix printer out of storage and get it operational. My horoscope warns of an impending crisis. Could these two things be linked? I’m just about to find out. (ok, not the most exciting thing I’ve posted here for a while, but I’m not ready to talk about the exciting things that are going on at the moment – just be assured that there are exciting things going on, and they are going well.)

  • Party in the Park update:

    Party in the Park update: Davo posts his pics. What is Luke doing with his finger in his ear and his tongue in his cheek?

  • Home now, then straight to

    Home now, then straight to Priory Park to play with the frisbee with Matt, Ian and Sacha. Come along if you are around.
    Priory Park and the cathedral. We usually play frisbee on the right of this picture, as there is sometimes a cricket match taking place in the foreground (you can see the white sight screens on the left)

  • As regular readers will know,

    As regular readers will know, I work for my parents. My father is very conservative (and Conservative) and English. He sometimes irritates the hell out of me with his Europhobic, xenophobic, almost racist, little-Englander ideology.
    For the past year, we have had a German girl, Melanie, working here. Every now and then, dad will start going on about the Germans in some way, usually making reference to either of the two world wars, and usually when we are all sitting around having tea. Today he was waffling on about the Red Baron. Melanie takes it in good heart and usually plays along and sometimes gives as good as she gets, but it really can be cringe-inducing at times. Somehow, I’m reminded of Basil Fawlty.

  • This from my inbox this

    This from my inbox this morning from a Graypie:

    Hello,

    A friend sent me a link to your blog because I couldn’t believe that anyone could seriously pride themselves on blogging. Sadly I am now a blog-a-holic. Not likely to start my own blog because even I couldn’t stand the tedium of revisiting my life online nor could I do it out of any spirit of generosity for the dubious gratification of people who I can only imagine reading my blog to feel better about their own hopelessly out of condition lives. However, I must now admit to an atavistic desire to spend my days reading about you (pl) and your disasters ….. and yes, the disasters are the best bits because they make me feel so much better about myself!

    Well, time to hit the road (which is a step up on hitting another car as I did last week). Have fun with the frisbee and if you do accidentally decapitate anyone don’t put it up. You never know who is reading!

    I don’t know quite how to respond to this. On the one hand I’m slightly flattered by the attention and pleased that the writing here is giving someone pleasure. But on the other hand….um…well, you decide.
    And if I do decapitate someone with the frisbee, at least I can be sure that they wouldn’t be reading this!

  • Last night I left the

    Last night I left the modem unattached, cooked myself a readymeal, poured a drink and just slobbed out on the sofa with some music and a good book. So why am I still so tired this morning?
    I can’t say that feeling so tired for so much of the time really worries me, but it is beginning to get irritating. I’m wondering what is causing it – maybe I need a holiday, maybe a change of diet, maybe less beer. Perhaps more exercise – I should have my bicycle back on the road in the next couple of days, so at least that will get me both mobile and fit.
    It must be said that it would be good to have a bit of “get up and go” again.

  • My new marketing texts for

    My new marketing texts for the new term have arrived. Can’t say they look like thrilling reading, but then I thought that about Total Relationship Marketing by Evert Gummesson, which I actually got into. One of the books that has arrived today has bigger text and more pictures than the other – guess which one I’ll be reading first!

  • Vaughan is thirty today. Go

    Vaughan is thirty today. Go wish him a happy birthday.

  • The funniest post I’ve read

    The funniest post I’ve read on any blog in ages.