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i give you all fair warning. it's my birthday next monday. should
you wish to shower me with gifts, i'm giving you fair warning so you can
start making your purchases.

diamonds are always a good fall back.

310105

Boots meal deal? Brilliant!

290105

Recommendations required:


Am currently doing about 2 hours driving a day for the next 5-6 weeks. So far I've listenened to 'David Copperfield' and 'Pete & Dud' on audio cassette. Here's my dilemma. If there's a book I really want to listen to, I don't want to hear an abridgement, ie Dickens. If there's something I don't mind hearing an abridgement of, then generally I don't want to bother listening to it at all. I have plenty of music but being a book fiend I am irked by the fact that I'm sitting down for two hours and not picking up a book. I have once had a book on the passenger seat that I grabbed up at welcome red lights but I suspect this may be a little obsessive.

So, dear readers...I ask merely the impossible of you. Give me something that's available on cassette for my car that is sufficiently high brow enough for a shocking snob like myself to want to listen to but not essential enough for me to fret about only hearing the abridged version. I wait with bated breath, much like the proverbial cheese eating cat.

240105

Today I bought myself an entirely low-tech gift because I asked for it for Christmas and didn't get it.

A recorder. Five quid. Early Learning Centre. Bargain. It even comes with a little jute bag with drawstrings so I can carry it to school..?

230105

Back from skiing the French Alps!!

Only six stitches and even then they were in someone else.

wagamama 

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wagamama then tate modern with my neice today.

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discovered today that a certain company, totally unrelated to me in every possible sense, has been sacking members of staff after seeing them post derogatory comments about said company in their blogs.

nothing to do with me. at all. never heard of them.

but my job is happy, fulfilling and really as close to paradise on earth as anywhere. the customers are smashing and i want to take all my colleagues home at the weekends.

080105

due to a sudden influx of interest in my blog (one person) i am back to tell you of all the excitement that makes up my glamorous life.

am getting drunk with a friend and picking random european cities we could conquer next.

291204

having a house guest for a few days so will be cutting myself off from my daemon that is the room housing all my books and computer, in the name of friendship.


light a candle and pray for nerves of steel for me.

281204

for half price sale, read license to treat books like empties down at the bottle bank.

pun not intended.

241204

ho ho ho

211204

I had a customer today who, in order to better help me recognise the book after which she was enquiring, said; 'It's got a binding down the side.'

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it's incredible how the minutiae of life can take on epic proportions by missing an hours sleep.

how difficult is it to just say goodmorning back to me when i say goodmorning to you. leave the comments about your runny nose til later. OBviously i'm gripped by your rhinitis but just say goodmorning. it's a vital part of the fabric of society.

191204

Having been requested to show body parts on my blog, I went googling for suitably ludicrous tattoo images i could comically pretend to be me.

all i'm saying is google 'tattoo monkey' and the the 4th one in. not me, not anyone i know, not anyone i hope to meet. ye gods!!!! a novel use for a belly button.

personal tattoo revelation will have to wait for now.....hee hee hee.

171204

today my t-shirt said 'trigger happy' just so no-one could say they weren't warned.

tomorrow will be the busiest day of the year. someone has already handed in their notice and refuses to work out their week.

if only i had a t-shirt that said 'it's the season of good will so mess with me at your fkn peril'

the day after yesterday

what a splednid eenign quaffing chapmpagne. yess.

131204

Is there any greater happiness than recovering your lost purse with all the christmas money in it?

(ahem, down the hall in a bag i'd forgotten i was using)

121204

today i got my christmas present early! have spent the afternoon adjusting the screws for a better stance and admiring the steel edges.

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is it normal to be off sick and then to coincidentally have prospective employers ring you up out of the blue offering you work?

just a question.