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NOT NATWEST

Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Amusing Events | No Comments »

It was a Saturday morning, I was hungover and I needed to get to the bank. I was in Guildford, which although being my 'home-town', it is not currently where I live. I had things on my mind, what had happened ...

A CAR-TASTROPHE

Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Amusing Events | No Comments »

Those of you that have been to the Jottings section of the site may have read an article called P75 BPM, which is a history of the problems I had with my old car. Well, I sold that one when ...

I DIDN’T BANK ON THAT

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Amusing Events | No Comments »

Ever since it first became available, I've been doing the majority of my banking online. It's so much easier online, you can transfer money, pay bills, pay off the credit card, get your account balance at the click of ...

LUSH COSMETICS

Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Posted in Amusing Events | No Comments »

So my mother gave me some new shower gel a while ago, not your conventional bottle of Lynx Arctic Rush or whatever ridiculous name they give it, no, this was a tub of orange shower jelly made by Lush Cosmetics ...

JEAN-IUS

Thursday, June 14th, 2007 Posted in Amusing Events | No Comments »

Some of you will remember that I once sold an odd sock on eBay. For a princely sum too, a whole £3.50. Annoyingly, I then found the other sock in the pair so it was all rather a ...

EASTER EGG HUNT 2007

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 Posted in Amusing Events | 2 Comments »

I know, I know. Easter was weeks ago but it's taken me that long to get round to writing it up. In previous years, organisational duties fell to the old man. But after years and years of the same ...

SOME LIGHT READING

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 Posted in Amusing Events | No Comments »

Many of you know that I am studying at the moment. Since September I have been working towards the CIM Professional Diploma in Marketing which involves attending college two nights a week and having my head in the books ...

QUEEN ETHELBURGA

Saturday, May 19th, 2007 Posted in Amusing Events | No Comments »

You know when you sign up for something, you have to tick the box to say that you don't want that company to allow "certain, selected partners" to contact you with promotions that "you may find interesting"? Well today ...

STOP PRESS RELEASE

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 Posted in Amusing Events | No Comments »

I often have to send out press releases that have been written by someone else, but with my name and contact details at the bottom. I had printed 30 copies of this particular press release and was just about ...

POWER CUT

Monday, May 14th, 2007 Posted in Amusing Events | 2 Comments »

I got in from work. It had been another long and hard day, I was tired and a bit stressed. I stuck a pizza in the oven and settled in front of the TV while it cooked, looking ...