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Closing down for the summer
My niece was complaining yesterday that she’s working hard at her summer job (at the same place her dad works), and after a hard morning walked into the main office to find the place almost silent, with everyone hunched over their desks. She thought for a moment they were all actually being productive, but then [...]
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Tags: blogging, blogs, hiatus, intermission
rose, originally uploaded by mcmrbt.
Further to the recent Dire Straits controversy, I decided to spend the 79 pence to get the 8.5 minute live version (from Alchemy). Most of the extra minutes on the recording are shockingly bad 80s stadium rock filler, so the core of the song itself is basically the same.
On my main [...]
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Tags: dire straits, name of the rose, novels, romeo and juliet, semiotics, umberto eco
super, originally uploaded by mcmrbt.
Just got back from a week on the island of Noirmoutier, off the Atlantic coast of France. Last night, because we’d been avoiding French-style seafood for a week (huitres, moules-frites, fruits de la mer etc.), we decided to have a proper fish supper. Two large cod, two medium, three large chippy-chips. [...]
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Tags: economy, fish, fishermen, fuel crisis, fuel prices, seafood, Supermarkets
Something Old Something Flue
room_with_a_flue, originally uploaded by mcmrbt.
The woodburner is in. The installation coincided with the best weather of the year so far.
The job is far from complete, so we won’t be paying for it yet. They’ve got some making good to do where the old gas fire was removed, and they need to fit some lead flashing [...]
Filed under: Climate, Education, Family, Flickr, Technology, climate change, happiness, summer, teaching and learning | 2 Comments
Tags: energy, fire, heating, stove, woodburner
This is the view from my kitchen window, now I have built a log store. I looked around the web, and various places were charging ridiculous money for a wood frame with a top on it, none of them really big enough, so we decided to build our own.
Tesco were charging £150 for this, which [...]
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Tags: blogging, diy, photography, photos
Turns out I’m back sooner than I thought I was. For no other reason than that I didn’t actually know the date I was due back and just guessed. Wrongly.
Forgot to pre-pay one of my credit cards: late payment will cost me £12. Ker-ching.
Car threw a wheel bearing (or something) which we had to get [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, Flickr, France, Middle Age, Time-Wasters, Travel, anxiety, being chippy, health, hypochondria, motoring, omens and portents, paranoia, summer | 4 Comments
This blog is on a break
I’m shutting down the computer for a couple of weeks in order to “rest my eyes.”
Will be back posting around 15th August.
In other news, I’ve been getting bothered by people over at Flickr again. I use Flickr to upload copies of some of my favourite photos. I don’t bother with hi-res (though I probably should) [...]
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Retired Hurt
Well, aren’t I glad that I didn’t write that post pontificating about The End of Civilisation, apropos the Endemol Great Kidney Giveaway Reality TV Show? Turns out, it was just button-pushing of an entirely different kind.
I was talking to someone the other day about the way my life has transformed over the past year or [...]
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Tags: Supermarkets, time
SpivMate
My Flickr Pro account expired, and given that I’m fairly paranoid about my digital photos*, I couldn’t afford not to renew it. Anyway, the exchange rate is favourable at the moment, so it costs peanuts, really. I only wish I had the cash to do loads of Amazon US purchasing.
Paying for the Pro account, I [...]
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miscellany at largesse
First of all, what is it with all the Daddy Longlegs? Or Crane Flies, as they are also known (it says here). Is it just Buckinghamshire, or are there fucking millions of the things all over the country? I see they’ve been reported in Blackpool, too. Apparently, they don’t eat in their adult (flying) form, [...]
Filed under: Climate, Family, Flickr, climate change, countryside, omens and portents | 2 Comments
