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New update for the new year
Ok, so here's the thing.....
Thought I should put SOMETHING here on the on the basis that I haven't posted in something just this side of FOREVER and in case anyone is still reading this, I felt there should be yet another explanation for my absence.
Mental health issues have decided to flare up again, and this time I have been diagnosed as a ( Read more... ) -
Stuff Pompeii
My apologies to all you folks who have been missing my updates. All [insert tiny insignificant number here] of you. I have been very busy with work and with performing chief bridesmaidly duties in preparation for my best friend's very extravagent and truly fantabulous Victorian wedding. As such I have been well and truly knackered in any spare time ( Read more... ) -
If you take me to Court, I shall plead insanity.
The UNEDITTED letter to the people to whom I owe money:
Dear Sirs,
I have recently received a letter from yourselves declaring an intention to start legal proceedings over an amount which I thought was already paid, and issuing a £150 fine. Having had recurring problems due to letters not being received combined with the fact that this is a quarterly ( Read more... ) -
Aye, it's grim oop north!
Coldest winter in 30 years, so the local radio station is interviewing Joe Bloggs on the street about the weather and the effect it has had on their grocery shopping and chicken farming (yes chicken farming, don't ask). Thoroughly entertaining hearing a perplexed Lancashire woman being asked, "Are you stocking up on essentials?" like there's a ( Read more... ) -
Bah, humbug!
Local radio station keeps playing an NHS advert with loads of kids singing "I'd Do Anything" from Oliver, followed by the 'moving' quote: "Your kids would do anything for you, so why don't you stop smoking for them?" Not only do I hate that song, but I also resent the fact that this ad, like so many that I have seen lately, is aimed soley at ( Read more... ) -
Throwing pies in the face of gender stereotyping
So, merry crimbo and all that bollocks ( Read more... ) -
How to talk yourself in a circle.
There is only one 4-letter word in my book ( Read more... ) -
London - Jam3: 26/10/09
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London has a strange effect on me. In many ways I hate it. I hate the pace of life. I hate the cost of living. I hate the fact that everyone rushes around, elbowing you out of the way to get to their next meeting or whatever, knifing grannies on the tube so they can get a seat and stomping about en masse in their long black overcoats and ( Read more... ) -
Grammar geekery
Would I be right in thinking...?:
'Despite... [verb]...'
'In spite of... [noun]...'
Or is it the other way around? Or either? Or are they subtly different in meaning?