Year: 2011

“’til it’s over and then,
it’s nice and quiet”

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Hey all, Autumn seems to have arrived in the UK. I’ll spare you the in depth weather report, but I will say this, I’m glad the Chams Massive went out last Thursday rather than yesterday! It really threw it down last night and today’s been rather windy. Sure, cooler is better than too warm, but as Maddy commented over on Facebook, you don’t really want to be chasing your hair down the street. 🙂 So it’s been pretty quiet of late and there are times when that’s not such a bad thing. Work too has settled down and the Big Project is both on hold and just about back on track. The pause to stop and consider where we are […]

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“Wow! (Shout out loud),
At the gay bar”

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Hiya, As I type it is unseasonably warm. Talk about a late summer! I’ve blogged about my enjoyment of the autumn months once before and much as the clear blue skies are nice, it is too hot for me. By the time it cools down, it’s pitch black. Still, the weather is at least calm, so no puddles to splash through or wind to blow your syrup in umpteen directions. Last time around, I mentioned the possiblity of a night out. It has been ages since I’ve been out and about, so I was really looking forward to it. Luckily for little old me (Ed: yes, the diet is still working), the Fates smiled and all went well. After dropping […]

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“I itch my skin jump up and say,
‘Lady, I know why your thoughts turned grey'”

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Hello dear reader, How’s things with you? Hopefully, all is well and if not, soon will be. Today I’m in a rather jubilant mood and that, perhaps like a fine meal, is something to be savored. I was going to make a gag about events conspiring with me, but I couldn’t quite get it to work. Ho hum! 🙂 So why the all round pleasantness? Well, since you asked (!), a few things have built up to boost the good vibes and lay low the not so good ones (although the latter have been but minor bumps, rather than the proverbial face kick. Yay for progress!). To start with, it was my birthday a little while ago and other than some nice gifts, I […]

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“I’ll escape if I try hard enough,
Till King of the Jungle calls my bluff”

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Hi, How’s things? It seems the autumn weather is slowly starting to make itself known. There’s a little edge of the morning or lunchtime walk: do I or don’t I take the brolly with me? Plus, those warm mornings are gradually slipping away, not that you came here for a weather forecast 😉 Funny, even as a kid I found September as a bit of a turning point. It seemed to mark the change between the school holidays and the summer itself. It was – and indeed still is for me – a case that there’s something different in the air. Perhaps it’s just a change in the temperature, but I feel there’s more to it than that. Personally, I […]

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“I don’t like Mondays”

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Hi folks! Imagine if you will, a large wedge of cheese. The thin end was my mood on Monday and the much wider, fatter, tastier end, Friday. I don’t know why or how my brain thinks in strange analogies, but it does. Luckily, today’s is wude. So as Sir Bob once crooned about disliking the whole Monday she-bang (Ed: that’s not a dodgy web site, BTW :-P), so to was I feeling less than chipper. I think it may have been a combination of knowing I had a full week of work ahead, feeling a bit miffed with the diet and also the worry that the anti-dog (Black Dog) tablets were not longer cutting the proverbial mustard. Hmm, another food reference. […]

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“I graduated from the Universty of Life
and the school of hard knocks, sir”

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Hi, September already huh? How time flies. I’ve picked the last of the blackberries in the garden and the apple trees are looking good. I must resist the urge to make a giant pie, though. That would undo all the good work with the diet. (Ed: Don’t think of yummy, yummy chocolate!) The latter – the diet that is, not the choccy – is going okay and the additional walking means I’m feeling a lot fitter too. I’ve lost a few pounds, but mainly I seem to have toned up in certain areas. Still, better that than no progress at all. I also decided on a spot of shopping as I’d seen a couple of nice dresses on Dorothy Perkins’ […]

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