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Ick?

November 7, 2003

I'm not sure I have lurgey. Mum thinks I do because I look pale. I counter with the fact that I always look pale. I am the embodiment of pale, even when fully tanned. I do still ache and have a fuzzy head, and I really don't feel like doing much at all today (do […]

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I think I may have 'flu

November 6, 2003

I ache. My head aches, my neck aches, my back aches, my arms and ribs ache. My shoulders ache. This morning, when it was just my neck and head, I had thought I'd put my back out again, which I am prone to doing. I was a little annoyed because only Monday I'd been to […]

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Confessions of a closet film-maker

November 5, 2003

About three months ago I read a short script on Zoetrope.com by a guy called Vincent. I was sitting at the dining room table downstairs on a weekend trip home from Reading and as I read the script I giggled and snarfed and guffawed like a maniac. Vince wanted to cut the script by nearly […]

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Guest blog: Passionate and sensual minimalism

November 5, 2003

My first ever guest blogger is Bram Janssen, a Welsh learning, Dutch teaching mate of mine from The Netherlands. We first met several years ago in an online community called Gorpies, and will meet face-to-face for the first time in February when we're going to a Jerry Goldsmith anniversary concert in London. Bram emailed me […]

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Google weirdness

November 4, 2003

I was surprised to notice from my stats that a Google on the phrase photos of what my stump will look like after amputation brings up this blog on the third page of the search results. I guess that post regarding the dream I had about losing a hand was the culprit. Out of curiosity, […]

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Tis the redundancy season again

November 4, 2003

This time last year my sister-in-law was made redundant, with a finish date of 31 December. This year, it's my brother's turn, with the same date. What a low down dirty rotten trick to make people redundant just after Christmas. It's the most expensive time of the year, the worst possible time for job hunting […]

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The time is coming

November 3, 2003

The last few weeks have seen some delicate behind-the-scenes negotiations, arrangements and gentle reminders (i.e. lots of nagging), but finally I can announce that I shall be going to see Matrix: Revolutions at the IMAX North in Bradford on 29 Nov. I’m going with my pal Vince and some of his friends and am expecting… […]

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NTL hiccup

November 3, 2003

Of course, when NTL took my email, they took my web space with it, damn them. I can't remember what I had hosted there, so I'm going to have to just hope it all eventually comes to light. I know some of the pics on the blog are currently missing, so I'm just in the […]

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Dubious search terms

November 3, 2003

Every month I reset my Blog-City referrer log – it only shows the top couple of dozen referrers, so once you get a week or so in there’s not much change at the top and even less change at the bottom. Within the referrer urls, it’s always interesting to see which search terms people have […]

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Eeeeeek!!

November 2, 2003

I want to go and have good soak in the bath – I'd use that lovely lavender powder that Kate bought me for Christmas and it'd make the water all frothy and scented and I'd chill out and lie there til my fingers had pruned. But, strangely, something's stopping me. It's big and it's black […]

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Nos Galan Gaeaf Hapus

November 1, 2003

Today is the end of the Night of the First Day of Winter, or the end of Samhain as some would call it. May your Winter be short and not too dark and may Spring arrive swiftly.

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Good luck Maciej!

November 1, 2003

Maciej, who writes Idle Words is running the New York Marathon tomorrow. I wish him the best of luck and hope he whups P. Diddy's arse. (I hasten to add that I'd not be caught dead running a marathon. Or rather, if I ran a marathon it'd kill me.)

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NTL are a bunch of stupid tossers

November 1, 2003

Well, it turns out that NTL, being a bunch of stupid tossers, have disconnected me from my email address without actually bothering to tell me that they were going to do so. I've just had a shout at their idiot customer service department (and I very, very rarely get that angry), who had the cheek […]

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Why lax gun laws are a very bad idea

November 1, 2003

Watching Fox News this morning (yes, I know… but my parents seem to like Fox News and I’ve yet to be able to persuade them that Fox is about as fair and balanced as Saddam is kindly and caring) I was really stunned to see footage of a lawyer, Gerald Curry, being shot six times […]

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NTL email broken; Virgin just plain shite

October 31, 2003

One thing that ticks me off is when one of my email accounts breaks for no readily apparent reason. My NTLworld address is currently knackered, for reasons I'm not sure even NTL understand, and it's very annoying. I don't mind so much when I can't get my email as I tend to assume that it'll […]

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