It isn’t even the end of January yet and already I have heard the following: The movie event of the year and Surely the best goal we will see this year which was uttered on NEW YEAR’S DAY FOR GOD’S SAKE
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New Year New Me
Well not me, exactly but me as in this …. this here. This little blog. If you are reading this in your inbox you won’t notice any difference, but hop on over to the web page and woaaaaahhhhhhh it’s all change, baby. I decided awhile ago it was time for a re-vamp. Primarily because I was bored with the old theme but also because it didn’t
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The Gallery — New
Ahhhh New Year New toys after Christmas New bodies as people set resolutions to get fit etc. A new year on the The Gallery. And if you are two of our teenagers it means shiny new cars. C has a new one after an unfortunate altercation with a Parcel Force van driving into her just before Christmas. A shiny Clio that is now the biggest thing she has ever
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Accident Prone or just stupid?
Listening to my favourite radio station this morning and they were having a phone in on “cartoon injuries”. I called in with a story of my dad and how he had his nose broken as a teenager (bricks / “oi duck” / stand up / wallop) and then the more I thought about it the more I came up with that had involved me. And then I pondered
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Social Pix — 13th January
How amazingly cool is this?
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MummyBarrow is loving this month — January
I have received some fab stuff in the last few months so I thought I would do one post and share it all with you as I think you might like them too.
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Ranty Friday — Payday Loans
I have had this rant in my head for months but this week I went over the edge with rage. I have a real problem with these sorts of loans and not only how they operate but how they advertise. They may it look easy, they make it look like the solution to a problem. It is not.
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I am in the wrong job
Do you ever have that feeling? When you hear what a friend earns? Or the perks they get? The trips they get to go on with work or the people they get to meet on a daily basis. It makes you envious and wish that you had applied for the job when you saw it. Or how about when you read of the next big thing that has just been
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Weight Watchers and Patsy Kensit
This might not have registered on your radar just yet but it seems that Patsy Kensit is the new “face” of Weight Watchers. And indeed voice as her advertising it on the radio today. Now I have a problem with this for a number of reasons.
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Social Pix — 6th January
This is what happens after certain people stay over. The Stig goes off the rails and starts playing with my pants
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LOL etc
Teenagers think texting is just for them. They think us oldies are all luddites and have no idea. David Cameron didn’t help matters when he thought “LOL” meant “lots of love” (and in fact I have heard a story of somebody who wrote that in a condolences card as they though the same thing). What teenagers don’t know is that there is a whole list of “text speak”
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Ranty Friday — Selfish Drivers
Having a bit of a rant today about drivers that don’t think one step ahead. You know the ones. The ones that think “Keep Clear” signs painted on roads don’t apply to them. They think it is decoration and that if they drive into them and don’t make eye contact with anybody we won’t notice. Or those that are in a slow moving queue of traffic, you are in