September 2003

CMC/Academi

September 5, 2003

For those of you curious, the winner of the CMC/Academi Gymreig Short Stories for Learners Competition 2003 has now been published on the CMC website. There you can read the winning entry, and the beirniadaeth by Ifor ap Glyn. Plus there are pics from the Eisteddfod Genelaethol up in y Trallwng.

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Job applied for

September 5, 2003

Okey dokey, one job applied for. Position of Website/E-commerce Manager. Turns out to be in Merseyside, but apparently is commutable from Manchester, so that's good enough for me. I don't mind sitting on a train each morning – gives me time to think and write. Of course, one application is nowhere near enough. But it's […]

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Stuff of no consequence

September 5, 2003

For some reason, my stats are insisting that only 21 people have read this blog today. I find that hard to believe considering that I normally get around 150-200 hits. Odd. Oh well. To change the subject completely, I have ramrod straight hair. I find it ironic, therefore, that the best way to put a […]

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A job to apply for! (Maybe)

September 4, 2003

Did my usual search of job web sites this morning and managed to find a job that I could possibly apply for. Rang the agency, just to check where it's based and to get a bit more info, but of course the guy I needed to talk to wasn't there and didn't phone me back. […]

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Going mad

September 3, 2003

If I don't get my connection sorted out soon, I'm going to lose my marbles completely. Sometimes it's fine. Mostly it is intermittent – I can get some emails but not others. I can read some sites but not others. Some pages contain 'data' and some don't. But it’s always annoying. Please, someone tell me […]

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The best toy ever

September 3, 2003

Fancy going for a quick spin in the convertable… up the Thames? The Gibbs Aquada is possibly the sexiest car I've ever seen. I'm not a big fan of cars, having spent the last 14 years since I passed my test finding good excuses not to get behind the wheel of one. Despite my car […]

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Oops

September 2, 2003

To everyone I accidentally sent over here after my 'I've moved' email, sorry! You really need to be here instead. Put it down to a long week and a shortness of braincells!!

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Final nails are in position

September 2, 2003

Today I started to make arrangements for completely closing the two Get Fluent subscription services. The final nails are all ready to be hammered in and soon I’ll be lowering the Get Fluent coffin into its very own neatly dug six foot hole. I feel quite sad that it really is all over. My hardest […]

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Pros and cons

September 2, 2003

Pros – I don’t have to cook everything, wash everything up, clean everything and iron everything, just a third of everything. – If the phone rings when I’m in the bath, someone else can answer it. – Better view from my desk. – If I need to scream and rant and generally go on, there’s […]

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Hmm… where are those little tiny wee clothes pegs that I used to keep in a small box in the filing cabinet?

September 2, 2003

I keep thinking to myself 'Oh, I'll just get Thing X, which will help me to do Task A', and then suddenly remember that Thing X is buried in an anonymous white archive box somewhere within in a stack of 39 other identical anonymous white archive boxes in the eaves and that to get to […]

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Gimme a job!

September 1, 2003

Well, now much of my life has been thrown out, given away or boxed, I am starting to job hunt in earnest. I want to find something in Manchester or that sort of area if I can, although I suppose I ought to be open to moving anywhere. Except London. Much as I love London […]

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Oh, what fun, what fun

September 1, 2003

Seems the landlord's going to stiff me for my deposit. Great. I could have done with that money, but apparently the house isn't clean enough and the garden not gardeny enough. I did the best I could, but these days it seems my best is pathetically not good enough. So, pfft goes any little weekend […]

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19 September 2003 – a date for your diary

September 1, 2003

Yep, me hearties, 19 Sept be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrr! An' I be thinkin' it be a fine idea, indeed I do. It be the only laff I be 'avin all day, me beauty.

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The Big Dig

September 1, 2003

Just watched The Big Dig on TV. It's like a palaeontologist's version of Time Team except nowhere near as good. For a start, the presenter had a brain the size of a pea, the scientists appeared to have been told not to use any long words or discuss complicated theories and the whole thing had […]

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Couple of observations

September 1, 2003

You'll never guess what turned up in the garden today. Go on… guess!! Yep, there was a hummingbird hawk-moth on the buddleia! Course, Dad was out at the time… Also, seems that the most common search phrase used to get to this blog at the moment is “Muse Absolution”. So, just as a cheeky attempt […]

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