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It’s only Tuesday and I’m already wishing it was Friday. Or even next Friday. Come to that; the Friday after that would be good. I have a hospital appointment late July for a ‘wound’ on my forehead that won’t heal so I have an appointment with a

I share an office. I share an office with a hot house orchid who I swear has no blood. Everyone in the room will be hot, and the orchid has so many clothes on and complains of being cold. I share an office with a giggler. Good grief we’re all adults

I’ve long said that people don’t ‘go’ mad, that they are ‘driven’ mad. I’m one of those people that long for peace and quiet in an increasingly noisy and busy world. Take my new neighbour… please! We had an old lady live 2 doors down. She often said

Whilst I was on Multiply, I often did a ‘pirate’ themed blog. I don’t live on a ship, just to clarify, though doing the occasional rambling, mad blog has its appeal: Today will see the ‘visitors’ in work leaving. They’ll be set adrift, with a paddle if

Today (Tuesday) is the second day of my son’s Work Experience and so far he’s enjoying it. The plan today is for him to take some PC’s apart and then put them back together; this is the kind of work I used to do and I’m a little envious that he gets to

I visited my sister in hospital today and she did not look good. Apparently she was up and walking around yesterday (Wednesday) but it looks like she may have overdone it; she had a bad night. This morning I phoned and asked if she’d like me to visit, she

Early hours of Tuesday we had a tremendous storm. The lightning woke me at 3am and I stood at the window watching it for about 30 minutes. I’ve never seen so much lightning! The thunder was tremendous and even woke my son – he could sleep through a bomb

That irritate the cr4p out of me. Yesterday I walked down to the car park in work, which is almost empty, only to find someone blocking me in. What the hell? I got into my car, put it into reverse and started to slowly back out of my parking space before

Forget the three R’s of reading, writing, and arithmetic – whoever came up with that one needs their head looking at - I prefer the ‘new’ three r’s of: reduce, reuse, and recycle. Let me just say; I’ve been recycling for many years courtesy of education