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  • Barnsley: A tour

    Barnsley: A tour

    Welcome aboard the Barnsley Boogie Bus. I’m Stegzy Gnomepants and I will be your guide on today’s tour. Please form an orderly queue. I know some of you are from the colonies where queuing is a new thing but this is the Great and Glorious Empire and Kingdom of Great Britain. Queuing is part of…

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  • Weekend

    The story so far. Saturday morning was spent doing the little jobs I don’t feel confident doing on my own with my dad. This included:- Screwing the loose floorboard down (It started to split when I attempted it myself) Affixing door furniture onto the back door After lunch we headed over to Cawthorne. Cawthorne is…

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  • Deliberately forget my password regularly Approach IT Support and ask them questions I know the answer to and act daft when they provide me with the solution Ignore every sign and notice Work off a floppy disk for the whole time I am there. a) I will not keep a backup of any important work,…

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  • Owl

    The Gnomepants Seniors are present in Brierley this week. It’s always good to see my mum and dad. Dad likes to busy himself during the day doing odd jobs I feel are beyond my DIY capability while my mum likes to clean and spruce the house up. Yesterday, with the help of Dad, I managed…

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  • Ode to Dingleberry You come in here My heart it sinks When ever you’re near My job just stinks You tell me I do things Not quite right When I’ve done them before Without all your shite To think you earn Much more than me Its hard to believe Your degree was free* And yet…

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  • Europeans

    A pipe dream I have involves me being all dirty and wrinkly, living in some old Continental European village sitting outside some pavement café, tabac or bar, drinking, smoking and talking shite with other old geezers while playing dominoes or some game with matches or something. All around me the world would go about it’s…

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  • Stegzy Gnomepants

    There are several new people on my F-List so I thought I’d do a run down on the goings on to this day.

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  • A poem for the lovely goddesszero Doing The Dishes I stand and wash the dishes The sink all filled with soap I rinse the plates of fishes With marigolds I will cope. The mugs all brown with tannin The spoons all grey with cream The roasting dish all crusty brown One wipe and they are…

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  • Bugs

    There’s been a lot of rain this year. An almost biblical deluge. As a consequence certain insects and arthropods are thriving. Mosquitoes (several stories here) and slugs to name but a few. The cabbage patch (or rather what is left of it) long since devoured by the joint forces of Sluggo and Caterpillro is but…

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  • Kids

    Kids eh?

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