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> Further to my last entry here I have managed to obtain a short contract of work. Hurrah! You might say. You might even assume that I am pleased. However, I’m not. Four years ago I moved from Liverpool to Yorkshire. It was a necessary move and it held the prospect of stabilizing my…
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Skills Excellent at taking the blame for stuff with having over 30 years of experience in being blamed for all manner of misfortunes from the loss of data from floppy disks to the breakdown of marriage. Have a good golf swing. Never played golf on a proper course but have been shown the correct stance…
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So, I stood there. Rolled up ciggie in my gob. Overalls on. Smeared engine dirt on my face and looked at the car. I tutted. Opened the car. Sat in. Tried to start engine. No joy. Exhaled smoke into car. Tried to start engine. No joy. Sucked air through teeth. Sighed. Popped bonnet. Looked at…
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Dear Arid Places in Africa, We appear to have your rain. Please can you come and collect it before we get washed away. Much Love Gnomepants I have a hole in my sock. In true form, once I’ve given up all hope and moved my attention onto a new thing, the old thing seems to…
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The plan today was to look around the city of Liverpool and pop into a few recruitment agencies. I’m never sure whether this is the right thing to do as most of the time recruitment agencies just say “Email us your CV” which to me means “Fuck off and don’t bother us with your worklessness”.…
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> Looking for work is arduous. Filling in application forms time after time after time with the same information, slightly tweaked to promote relevance to post applied for. I must have filled in more application forms during this period of unemployment than I did during the last period back in the nineties. I suppose this…
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Me and the the fruit cake were discussing telly during a blustery walk through the Warwickshire countryside and we thought about what sort of programmes you would run if you owned a television station for a day and could schedule any show you wanted to. The premise being that you have 24 hours to fill…
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Day 17. A song that you hear often on the radio: I don’t tend to listen to music radio. It’s a waste of airwaves if you ask me. The only music I tend to hear on the radio is this when I’m driving late or struggling to sleep. The Shipping Forecast from stegzy gnomepants on…
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