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The most annoying thing about Halloween

November 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on The most annoying thing about Halloween · Life

This is not where I bang on about telling children that for one night a year it is OK to accept sweets from strangers and the endless streams of  children knocking on your door.  That is easily addressed.  You can already put up posters saying ‘no trick or treat please’, although I think it would […]

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Wash Your Face In My Sink

December 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

This Christmas season is being defined by plumbing problems.  First of all it was the shower not turning off properly.  I diagnosed the problem as being a faulty flow control valve, but you have to get such things my mail order – local supply shops do not do spare parts.  I ordered one through the […]

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Time Stops

December 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life, Work

I know I have said it before, but something so true cannot be repeated too often… the Christmas holidays are brilliant.  Even those of us who do not really enjoy the Christmas element can really go for the holiday part because it is the best holiday of the year.  Every other time you take time […]

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It’s Hip To Be Square

December 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

Just finished wrapping Jayne’s presents.  I wanted gold wrapping paper because that is what everything else is wrapped in, but there has been a run on gold paper in Crawley town centre, certainly amongst the cheaper paper, and I ended up with some ‘luxury’ paper as it was all I could find.  It’s brilliant!

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Party in Session

December 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life, Work

We are well into the Christmas party season now.  Last week Jayne was out at various functions for four nights in a row.  One was my company’s annual do.   Being the sort of miserable bastard who doesn’t really like Christmas much I normally avoid company parties, but after hearing tales of how lavish they are […]

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Christmas morn

December 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Life

Only a few hours before the kids start pestering us to get up… Can’t wait to see what Charlie thinks of his present, and can’t wait to see whether he lets us have a go.  I expect we will spend most of the festive period in Crawley hospital.

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Christmas songs

December 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Music

I may not like Christmas much, apart from the much-needed week off, but I do have a soft spot for some Christmas songs.

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Elf & Safety

December 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Elf & Safety · Technology

This week I have been mostly elfing myself…

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Fairytale ending

December 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Music

One of the few things I like about Christmas is hearing Fairytale of New York all the time, so I’m glad the scumbags and maggots of the BBC have decided against censoring it. I can see where they were coming from, but they were taking no account of context and besides, the song is a […]

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Christmas Television

December 14th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life

I see that the Christmas Radio Times is on sale. I’m amazed it is still going in spite of its monopoly on printing TV listings getting removed years ago, and the EPG on digital televisions being a lot easier to use. I don’t think I will be buying it. However much it costs it is […]

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