Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Bird Flu in the Hedges
My other major achievement over the weekend, as well as cramming in three gigs, was to cut my hedges. Now, we don't have a huge plot around our bungalow, but I do have a 7' high beech hedge on two sides of the back garden, plus a developing hedge along the front of the property, between us and the...
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Monday, October 17, 2005
Three Gigs in Four Days!
Yes, we've been pushing the boat out when it comes to live music in the last few days! On Thursday T & I went to see Dio at Newcastle University. In case you need your memories jogging (or are perhaps too young!) Dio is the name of the band fronted by Ronnie James Dio. And he, in turn, was the...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
A Birth, and a Death
Well, my DVD project is officially live now, and doing not too badly, for a new-born! You can see the fruits of my labours at www.specialistdvds.co.uk. I'm open to comments and criticisms on the sales letter - this is my first foray into hardcore copywriting and, to be honest, although it feels like...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2005
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
What a mad time! At least there's plenty of good news going around at the minute! 1. Although the Saab is probably a write-off, we do have a £30,000 Lexus on the driveway right now, courtesy of the other party's insurance company. I took it down to my speaking engagement in Coventry on Sunday. I...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
WE'RE NOW IN THE THIRD TRIMESTER!
It's true! T is now in the last three months before she gives birth to our son. No, we didn't find out the sex of the baby from the scans - we really want it to be a surprise - but we're both increasingly getting the feeling that It's a He! Plus, there's something women say about when a baby is...
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Friday, September 23, 2005
Scum-Sucking Sh*t-Bags
I'm not a big fan of celebrity. Sure, I've had my heros in the past - still have a few, I guess - but as someone said recently, never before has celebrity been so highly valued, and yet so easy to come by. That said, I still feel a great deal of compassion for all my fellow humans on this planet,...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Trains, Trips & Penguins
I don't understand our rail network. We have a nice, stone-built local station, but there's not a whole lot of trains that stop here, so I'm resigned to catching my trains, for the most part, from Newcastle. However, they do have a ticket office at our station and, despite the queues that sometimes...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Courtesy Cars and Sidecars
People in the UK are always bitching on about insurance companies, and how it takes them weeks, if not months, to get their act together and process a claim. Now, this may have been true once, but I've got the dubious experience of writing off T's Renault Clio a year last April, and then piling T's...
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Friday, September 16, 2005
I BENT THE SAAB
How was your day, Damon? Well, I've had better. I nipped up to see my mate H at about 9.30 yesterday morning for three specific reasons. He'd given T and I some home made curry for our dinner a few nights back, and I still had his pan. I'd taken my external hard drive up to his to help him with...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
What WAS Prohibition All About??
T went out with some of the girls she used to work with the other night, and I decided to watch the movie she gave me for Christmas - The Untouchables. For anyone unfamiliar with it, it is set in Chicago in 1930, and follows the progress of Elliot Ness and his team as they nail Al Capone for tax...
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