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Normal service will now be resumed
I can’t believe it was really 13th April when I made my last post here…I’m sure it wasn’t that long! Anyhow, both Rachel and Bliss are now back, and normal service shall now be resumed.
So where have we been? Well we’ve not been anywhere, and are firmly of the opinion that it’s you, dear reader, [...]
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Labels
A couple of weeks ago I was talking about disability, and what it actually means. I came to the conclusion that labels are often just a shorthand for something, something that saves a long, detailed explanation. When it comes to disability, and how I describe myself, it’s a lot easier to say “I’m disabled” rather [...]
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If you can’t fix it, you gotta stand it
Question: What have the NHS and my body got in common?
Answer: They’re both fucked.
Last night I had an appointment with my neurosurgeon. Yes, last night - 7.15pm. Why? Because apart from doing his day job, which at the moment is covering at another hospital for another surgeon, as well as his own, twice a week [...]
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Six Word Memoir
Over at The Pickards JackP’s picked up on the idea of a six word memoir, as mentioned on Stephen Lang’s site.
Always up for a challenge, I thought I’d give it a shot. Summing up your life, your achievements, your outlook, thoughts, hopes and desires in only six words?
A number of quotes from some of my [...]
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In the gutter’s where it’s at
(my mind, that is)
There I was this morning updating fields on the management system at work (an exercise in frustration, as updating two simple fields requires going through numerous views to get to the edit button- grrr!), filling in missing data from some customer satisfaction surveys at work, when one of the customer comments in [...]
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I’ve been tagged!
I’ve been tagged - whatever that might mean…
Is it a game of tag where the one tagged is now “it” and races around the playground madly, looking for someone else to tag? Sort of, but with blogs - and it’s like tag on steroids because you have to tag 6 people. Phew! That’s a lot [...]
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The artist formerly known as
If it’s good enough for Prince, or “The Artist Formerly Know As”, or whatever he’s calling himself these days, then it’s good enough for me.
I use a variety of different avatars in various places across the web, some match whatever name I go by in that particular establishment (I have a variety of names [...]
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What’s with the neon blue space-ship?
If you’ve hovered over the blog header when you’re not on on the front page…*waits a moment for you to try it now if you haven’t already*…then you may have noticed there’s a gorgeous little neon blue flying saucer that says “go home” at the side of it. The “go home” bit means if you [...]
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I wish I knew how to quit you
Every once in a while a film comes along that really moves you, not just your typical all-action Hollywood drivel, but something that really says something to you, something that gets people talking, and something that seems to really shake the movie industry glitz and glamour’s self-absorbed self interest. Brokeback Mountain was one of those [...]
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Scumbags R Us
Today was going to be a good day, a productive day, a day when I was going to catch up on all those bits and pieces I’ve been putting off all week. Only it didn’t turn out that way. I’d got a hospital appointment this afternoon, but apart from that I was going to use [...]
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