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Archive for January, 2005

RENAULT PARTY

Sunday, January 30th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

Renault and Nissan have now been in alliance for five years and last night both companies had a joint party to celebrate. The venue was Battersea Park, London (the seasoned readers of this site may remember this post which ...

IT’S JAKE - IT’S JUST COME TO ME

Friday, January 28th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

I try to time my dinner for the start of Eastenders and for those of you that watch it, you will know that not long ago, Alfie Moon's cousins Danny and Jake arrived in Albert Square. I watched that ...

TAXI BIRD

Thursday, January 27th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

For over a year, I have been calling Debs 'The Bird' which to some is sexist and controversial; to others it is amusing; but to me it is a term of endearment and one that I now use through force ...

ABOUT A BIRD

Monday, January 24th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

A couple of things about Debs from the weekend: 1) she was wearing high heels and decided to run to her car to get her boots. She slipped on the pavement and now has a large, bruised scrape on the ...

(I TRIED TO) ENJOY THE VUE

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

About ten years ago when I was approaching the most hormonal period of my pubescent teenage years, going to the cinema on a weekend was a good thing to do - and it was the traditional thing you did when ...

THAT’S A PIZZA BULL-SHIT

Monday, January 17th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ironically, I was just about to take my Sainsbury's own Pepperoni Pizza (two for

NEGATIVE RESPONSES

Thursday, January 13th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Once, years ago, when mother asked me how I was, I said "not bad". I was lambasted for being negative and coming across as negative and saying negative things which make people think negative things about me. I ...

MULTI-STOREY SARCASM

Sunday, January 9th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A couple of years ago, I would shy away from any sort of confrontation and just ignore it in the hope that it would die down and go away. I don't know whether it's built-up stress, a strengthened character, ...

AMUSING QUOTES

Friday, January 7th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Something I heard somebody say at some point over Christmas: "no, the kids are upstairs selling their presents on Ebay" and today I heard the phrase: "my wombat is constipated and my hovercraft is full of eels" what a strange place the world has ...

STARTERS FOR ONE

Wednesday, January 5th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

and just to add to my previous post - a couple of hours later, we all sat down to our three-course dinner. The starters arrived and I was delighted to see that my large bowl of soup with accompanying ...