Jacqui is completing an application form at the moment – what for does not matter here – and there are a variety of questions along the lines of “If you had a million pounds what would you do” and “If you could invite 3 other people for a meal who would they be and why” [...]
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When gloop was good. - Posted 00:57 Sunday 31 Jan 2010
When I was a kid back in the 60’s and 70’s – you know I wish I’d been born say 5 years earlier. I could have really got into being a punk or a goth, I could have been one of those that voted Maggie Thatcher into power and probably even more fun could have [...]
Sir Terry Leahy - Posted 15:25 Tuesday 1 Dec 2009
Last year Tesco – lead by Sir Terry Leahy – made over £3,000,000,000 profit. 3 billion quid. They have a store at Beaumont Leys in Leicester. If you go upstairs in that store and you are in a wheelchair you cannot browse the DVD section. Building supports and their deliberate placement of the aisles mean [...]
Part of an email - Posted 21:03 Sunday 8 Nov 2009
This arrived in my – and thousands of others – inbox on Nov 5. I liked the whole email when it arrived but I really liked this part. Just read it again and I still do. (I’m at 12097 of the 50000)
2) You deserve some fun. We get so focused on doing the things that [...]
2 targets - Posted 10:36 Monday 2 Nov 2009
1. Weight. I’m back on the diet. I started eating crap again and this is not good. I’m around 75kg still, target is 73 for now, it will lower.
2. NaNoWriMo. Will I write 50,000 words? No idea. Can I hit 20,000? Pretty sure I can. It’s not a story, it’s more bio based. I wrote [...]
Credit inexpert - Posted 16:40 Wednesday 28 Oct 2009
At some point in the last couple of years Jacq signed us up to a service called CreditExpert. I will have chosen a password, told J what it was and left her to do whatever it did. I don’t care for any money issues, it’s all down to Jacq to sort (which she likes so [...]
Wait a minute - Posted 16:30 Thursday 3 Sep 2009
I used to smoke (quit ~2002), I used to drink (quit March 2003) and I’ve lost 40lbs+ since March (still going). It’s not willpower. Someone may say it is but I disagree, at least for me.
With each of the above I started by thinking – not talking, not reading – about the issue. I would [...]
Silence falls - Posted 18:00 Friday 8 May 2009
In 2004 I blogged daily or more but that dropped off for a variety of reasons – I got fed up of ranting, my words were taken out of context, I got busier and in the last couple of years what I want to write about became more personal. This has been very true over [...]
Making it go away - Posted 19:41 Thursday 11 Dec 2008
Vox blogs deleted
Blogger blogs deleted
Facebook delete button clicked. If I do not login it goes in 14 days.
Myspace account deleted
Xanga deleted (cute ’shutdown quiz’)
Some Google details (credit card, newsgroups etc) removed.
There is probably other stuff that I do not use and will delete when I remember. Why keep what I do not use?
35-44 - Posted 23:43 Wednesday 4 Jun 2008
Getting old. Going grey? yes, no problem there. More grooves in the face? got them too. Less fit than when younger? actually no, I’m better than I was (I think). Wiser? maybe, but why lose the fun and the risk? The birthday itself? I’m getting to like them more. So do I mind getting old? [...]
