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  • Flat cap hour

    Recently I reconnected with an old school friend. In honour of this reconnection I give you a post from my LJ from back in 2006. —- Eeeeh I remember when…. When I was wee we had a telly, an evening newspaper, a collection of reference books and plenty of old people. If I had a…

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  • There and back again and There and back again–Pt 3

    The first day of walking was most enjoyable. Tired by evening we dined on barbequed steak and salad. Not as straight forward as it should be. Partly because the crappy Tesco Instant Barbeque was impossible to light in the light breeze that had picked up during the day but after an hour of cooking later…

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  • There and Back Again and There and back again–Pt2.

    So following arrival at Nicks in Crosby nr Liverpool at 1am in the morning I managed to squeeze out a couple of hours sleep. My head raced with the reality that I would be in Wales later that day. Think I was more excited than Nick. Several hours later we were on the road in…

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  • There and back again and there and back again Part 1

    Picture if you will a pub in Liverpool about 4 weeks ago. **wibbly visual effect used to signify reflection on past events**   Stegzy:- You’re on holiday next month. I’m on holiday next month…let’s go camping! Nick:- Yes that sounds like fun. Stegzy:- Look I’ve put it in my shiny new HTC FLYER on the…

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  • Further ruminations of holidays past

    (An edited version of a post previously made on Livejournal in 2007. Now with pictures taken recently) Recently I have been thinking about the sodden holidays we used to spend in my Uncle Nat’s cottage. Uncle Nat sold the caravan in favour of a ramshackle husk of a cottage half way up a soggy Welsh…

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  • Holiday

    Holiday

    I’ve been musing and fantasising about going to Wales, I got thinking about the way my Dad used to take us to Porthmadog in the 70’s and 80’s. Instead of taking the A55 along the north coast through Conwy and then down the A470 through to Betws-y-Coed and Blaenau Ffestiniog we would scuttle down the…

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  • Hot days Poem

    Hot Days by Stegzy Gnomepants I know I shouldn’t look When I’m walking down the street But when they’re in my face I can’t just look at feet They’re out there in vast numbers Proud and volumous But I swear I wasn’t looking Just I thought I saw my bus Cos if I stumbled blindly…

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  • Vegetable relief

    Vegetable relief

    Save a Radish Today Some radishes live a care-free happy-go-lucky life but there are many other radishes that go uncared for and mistreated. In 2005 alone, over 2 million radishes were abandoned, composted or left to fester at the back of someones fridge. They are the often forgotten vegetable and frequently suffer bad treatment from…

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  • Every year Britons the world over celebrate a special day today. “We Don’t Want The Damn Country Anyway” Day. It all started in this day 1776 when a group of colonials threw their rattle out of the cot and decided they no longer wanted to be part of the Glorious and Holy British Empire. It…

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  • People ask me “stegzy How do you get your hair to look so fine and bountiful?” “Easy” I reply “I leave it the fuck alone” Some people are shocked by such a response and end up moving away muttering to themselves under their breath but others quiz me further until I move away muttering to…

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