Sunday, December 14, 2025

The Modern Way - Another "Friend" Gone

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  Someone I loosely call a friend - you know, connected on Facebook and LinkedIn and so on and I worked quite closely with them around 20 ye...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Thank Goodness That's Fixed!

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  I'd turned off the mains water and the boiler and controls and our friendly Heating Engineer arrived quite late, it was dark and didn...
Friday, December 12, 2025

A Day Without Water

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  Yikes - that's some leak we have and I am just about to cut off the water to the house and hope our man can fix it.  What a pain but a...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

It's All In Your Head

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  It is, one of the strangest things is surely that your head conjures up all this stuff and makes things that don't exist look almost r...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

How's Your Luck?

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 I walked into the Airing Cupboard and there was a slightly musty yet humid smell in the air.  Looking down I found that the floorboards wer...

Oh No Super Flu

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  So it's going to be named "Super Flu" now is it.  Perhaps my least favourite superhero!  The NHS want people wearing masks a...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Cognitive Dissonance - Everywhere

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 Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort felt when holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes, or when your actio...
Monday, December 08, 2025

That's It, Sorted The Main Event - Now For Plan B

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  So I finally got the sale to go through using a different browser and that's it now I think.  Everything arriving boxed up and ready t...

Diet Notes & Other Strange Things

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I have lost around 3 stone this year although I can see that halting and reversing for the next two or three weeks as Christmas hoves into v...
Sunday, December 07, 2025

Right In Your Face - How They Lie And Cheat

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  We always knew it.  Politicians cheat and generally most of the stuff you hear on the News is manipulated and twisted to fit a narrative o...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

Goodbye Sheep

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  We have four large fields to the side and back of the house and they are occupied by Sheep between May (ish) and now.  Yesterday the Sheph...
Friday, December 05, 2025

We Have Forgotten Who We Are

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  I am old enough to remember that despite the troubles of the 1970s and 1980s when London could be dangerous with bombings and the like, th...
Thursday, December 04, 2025

Filing And Shredding - Getting There

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  It's quite a process but I am getting there.  Four large dustbin bags full of shredded paper and a fifth under way and space in the of...
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Driving In The Dark & Wet

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  The M25 is hairy at the best of times but it was coming off the Motorway that the "fun" started.  Quite what takes over people...
Monday, December 01, 2025

Advent - Here We Go

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 Again.  Yes here we go towards Christmas and it feels very different this year.  I am being very careful with my money as I do not know qui...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Stuff - Not Working

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  What a week.  So now my VHS to DVD converter has stopped working - I did think it was possible after I did someone's VHS tapes that di...