What’s gone on?

  • Growing stuff

    I plant the seeds And wait The plants that grow Their fruit I will harvest While others I shall leave to age And rot I wait patiently Biding my time Planning the meals With the fruit I shall create I dream of the possibilities Abundant Yet I must not be Complacent Forgetting the events I

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  • For every season

    Ah food. My favourite subject. I took a trip to Barnsley Market on Tuesday and was amazed at the colourful displays of fruit and veg at the greengrocer stalls. Such diversity at such a wide rane of prices. That got me thinking about how the culture of now fueled by the supermarket’s thoughtlessness on providing

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  • I have lived in a number of residences. Chronologically:-

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  • Stupid of the day

    user – Can you help me with the photocopier? I want to copy double sided originals to be single sided stegzy – Ok. Well you need to set it up like this. Then put your documents on here like that. And press the green button like this. user – Great **Many copies later** user –

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  • Pride

    I was watching Carys Matthews (formerly of Catatonia) on BBC Breakfast this morning and she was talking about how proud she was to be Welsh and have such amazing artisans of literature as Dylan Thomas. This got me thinking about how, as an English chap, I don’t appear to have any one to be proud

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  • Weekend

    Weekend

    Took myself away this weekend as respite from the awful exam. While away I resisted the urge for Chineefoo and yummies but not for geocaching. Found a few caches, saw the Rollright stones which are obviously a former kraal for cattle, bits of which have been moved about by some ancient errant farmer in days

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  • Supermarket law

    Supermarkets are to be allowed to provide legal advisories to customers in 2011. On the back of that, let us consider the supermarketisation of legal advice. Scenario 1 – The low price “Value” legal advice Crim – Alright mate, the coppers ‘ave said av killed someone. Supermarket Legal Advisory – Well you have no choice

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  • Mayspheres

    Mayspheres Some are firm Some are saggy Wandering the streets With trousers baggy The hot weather brings them forth The annual display Blossoming burgeoning Never dismay Some have cavernous voids betwix Others my eyes Befix Wandering the streets Every May without fail They bloom with out fears Every man a witness To those glorious spheres

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  • Exam

    Exam was tough, went well for the most part I think but then I always go to pieces in exams. I never seem to remember anything. Weekend was lovely. Nice walks in the May sunshine looking at the hawthorn in full bloom and the nice cooling breeze making what probably would have made the outdoors

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  • A spine

    If you come and ask me how to do something then proceed to tell me I’m doing it the wrong way, don’t be surprised if I am rude to you. Honestly, I’m not here to press buttons for you and I’m certainly not here for you to get pissy with me because you’re too damn

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