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I ‘heart’ iPods

I love Apple iPods. They look so damn sexy. I love listening to music too, I’m sure it’s all I need to make my life complete – I should have one! In a world where kids have all the…

kiteSurf
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Photo Friday – Cool

This was taken in Penzance, Cornwall. That’s St Michael’s Mount in the background.…

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Dinner party translations

Going to a friends for dinner is great and I love it. However, having to attend a proper dinner party is something else altogether Ah you’ve brought some wine, thank you so much! Hmmm interesting choice. translates as… I’ve…

first-magnolia
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Apparently patience is a virtue… I beg to differ!

When, oh when will my Scissor Sisters CD arrive? CD-WOW, why do you taunt me so with your free P&P offers and promise of 5 day delivery? It’s been two weeks now, I wait patiently by the letterbox every…

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I’ve got a lot on my plate right now

What IS eating normally, can someone tell me? I was on a training session at work today, so I was lunching with people I don’t normally pass the time of day with. I ended up with a towering plate…

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Part Troll

Have just got back from seeing Bill Bailey on his ‘Part Troll’ tour at Bournemouth Pavillion. It was well worth the deep-vein-thrombosis and crick-in-the-neck from the edwardian theatre seats – the part of him that is not troll is…

red-cabbage
Life

Juicy!

S. has flown off to Majorca for a week today, so obviously I’m seething with jealousy (even though she’s promised to bring me back some Lancôme Juicy-Tubes from the duty-free shops at Palma airport). So whilst some today were…

pola-autumn-1
Life

Fun-day

Today was actually quite a lovely day to be at work. Rather than add a £20 (minus tax) to our pay packets as a thank you, the directors chose to have a celebratory barbeque and ‘fun-day’ to thank us…

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Venus

Even though, since the age of about three I was told every horror story there was about looking directly at the sun, they all sounded a bit far-fetched, so I thought it would be OK to get a really…

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Life

Decaffinated

I’ve been caffine-free… well, coffee free, for three days now! I’m managing to keep the nervous twitch reasonably under control and, with the co-operation of work colleagues, I’ve only had to be bodily dragged from the drip tray of…