Owing to the nature of my job and the desire to keep persistent teenage noses out of my private life, this journal is Friends Locked. Please drop me a comment here if you are friending me... 

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So... for those of you who were wondering... I'm not dead. Not physically, at any rate. Imaginatively, though, almost certainly. It's been several months since I read my flist or wrote anything in my journal, and I have to say that I haven't yet decided whether I've missed it or not.

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Title - Home Soon
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Bloody typical, isn't it? It is events like this that make me certain that religious fanaticism will be the cause of the next world war. 

 Oh, I have to share this with everyone...

(Sent to me in an email from a friend who is a solicitor in London - never let it be said that he takes himself too seriously!)

Lawyer - Doctor _______, before you began the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
Witness - No.
Lawyer - Did you check for blood pressure?
Witness - No. 
Lawyer - Did you check for ( Read more... )

Title - One Step Ahead
Author - 
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Sometimes it worries me how seriously some men take football. Yesterday was the staff football match. We were playing against another local school, following some kind of dare that had been issued between the PE staff and, needless to say, I have never, in all my living days, seen people take something as seriously. The Head of PE had been planning ( Read more... )

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What a star, what a lovely person, who made me smile many, many times. She had a great heart and a wicked sense of humour. I will miss her. My thoughts are with everyone - family, friends and LJ mates.

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The stone rolled away... A hopeful day...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6634373.stm

I don't often comment on political issues in this journal, but I need to make an exception today. Please let it work this time.