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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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RSS – A little request

August 31, 2003

I'm using Syndirella to aggregate the blogs I like to read more than ever now I'm on poxy dial-up. Not all of the blogs I like to read have RSS, though, and many of those that do have a feed for some strange reason have them set up to provide only the first dozen or […]

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Hummingbird hawk-moth

August 31, 2003

The hummingbird hawk-moth is, to be honest, a freaky looking thing. For a start it’s a day-flyer and secondly its wee little wings flap so fast they’re nothing but a blur. Hovering as it does, it looks just like a very small hummingbird, hence the name. Its stripy arse looks like it’s been tacked on […]

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Up to speed

August 30, 2003

Well, Friday morning was significantly less than fun. I prised myself out of bed at 6am, after two and a half hours sleep, and felt so shit after all of 15 mins that I went back to bed for an hour. Didn’t feel much better at 7.15am when I got up again, but by then […]

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Thursday night's blog

August 30, 2003

Ok… this might read a bit strange. All I can say is that I was very tired, very drunk, and not a little over-emotional. But hell, here's what was going through my head Thursday night. Oh, and no, I didn't finish it all, but more of that later. 00:30 As I can’t blog, because I […]

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I'm here!

August 29, 2003

Just a quicky. I made it ok, with over 40 boxes and god knows what other junk. Computer not set up yet, so using my Dads. Hate using other people's computer – it seems a bit like using their toothbrush for some reason. Ick. Thus will keep this short. Am in Dorset. Am alive. Am […]

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