Well it had to happen semetime.

I now have a sensible car. After 10 years of running Lotuses I have bought myself a Proton Gen-2. It's not the worlds best car by a long way, but it's cheap and actually isn't bad.


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I just got my tax code for the new year. It ends in a T. This can't be good.

How do you get the post office to recognise a new town or village?

I want to create a small village called "everywhere". In that village, there would be one road, called "there". On that road there would be one house, called "here". I would like in here. Hence, my address would be

blue_donkey
here
there
everywhere
I may allow someone to build ( Read more... )

according to all the headlines, almost everyone who matters1 will get lower tax bills this year.

I have just received my first pay of the tax year, and was surprised to see little difference to the amount that entered my bank account. I have just had a look at my payslip...

change
PAYE-42.58
NI+41.32
Pension+2.80
Total+1.54Yep, that's right. As ( Read more... )

joebunny has been given time off for good behaviour. so I thought we'd go down to London and stay in a hotel. The problem is which hotel?

I was thinking of the Lanesborough. It's a bit pricey with rooms upto £7,000 a night, but it's supposed to be quite nice. Unfortunately joebunny insisted that the hotel had a swimming pool. The Lanesborough doesn't have ( Read more... )

I have another dilema

joebunny is staying at mine for a couple of days, and she's brought one of her things along.

She's working late tonight, I'm getting hungry and there's not much to eat in the house.

Except.....The thing! :-)

Now the question is, would it be better cooked

in the microwave...

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I need to buy a bunch of CDs in order to check whether a new drive mechanism is damaging discs. We're not interested in the contents. Just that it's a CD ( Read more... )

I 've escaped again.

This time, it's from joebunny's. She's done a wonderful job of looking after me, but it's time I started looking after myself ( Read more... )

I finally escaped.

I've been prodded, poked, X-rayed, Scanned and injected. I've given more blood samples from more veins than I thought I ever had in my arms.

The reason for all this prodding and poking? I blame maltloaf! He had a stinking cold just before christmas and took great delight in coughing on me. I then stated coming down with his cold and ( Read more... )

We just had a company meeting, where the CEO and MD stood infront of all the company and told us how well we're doing.

The news was positive. Sales are going well. We've had two record months and they're really pleased. To thank us for all the excellent work we've been doing, they've given us a little bonus.

£50 in our pay packets (Taxed, of ( Read more... )