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  • Now they are at it on Radio 4

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    :rant: Can things get any worse? Over the weekend I read a set of estate agents particulars “in our opinion a 4 bedroomed detached house”. Good to know that your estate agent can recoginise a house when he/she/it sees one, I suppose. But no, gentle reader, the nadir has been reached, the ultimate low. On…

  • Weekend Stuff

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    Job Interviews Latest in flat screen technology Talking Mouse I only ever seem to post drivel on this blog. I feel guilty. Just not very much.

  • Quiet day

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    Home alone with two under the weather small people. Smallest of all is in bed asleep and Big is wandering aimless as a clould. She has decided she is well enough to eat fruit though – and pester me.

  • DNA

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  • Unaccustomed as I am….

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    Our MP’s most recent speech in parliament: “Oh!” I have been thinking of getting a personalised number plate, TAN 1 is available for a breathtaking £36795 or TM 8 for £30795, but the news this week suggests to me that I could be missing a trick and there might be better ‘personalisation’ purchases available. So…

  • What 2007 Car Should You Drive?

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    You Should Drive a Ford Shelby Mustang Cobra You have an extreme need for speed, even when you’re not in a hurry. And while your flying by, you don’t want to look like every other car on the road! What 2007 Car Should You Drive? Now, I felt cheated. The range of available speeds in…

  • It's Snowing

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    “Daddy, its snowing. Daddy, my slide’s got snow on it. Daddy, my seesaw, it’s …” …….. (yes, you guessed, snow). Small likes snow.

  • Call Centre The Movie

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    Call Centre The Movie 12 minute Flash movie. Very funny.  

  • Microsoft redesigns iPod packaging

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    Flash Movie  

  • I ongo, you ongo, he ongoes

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    :rant: It started with ongoing, but is now pandemic. Today’s annoyance, in press articles about Tessa Jowell, DOWNPLAY. What is wrong with “play down”? why do we need to keep inventing new verbs to say things we can say perfectly well and a lot more clearly using adverbs? Who decided to declare war on adverbs?…