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VENICE REPORT

Saturday, March 26th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The report of the short break to Venice is now available through the Jottings section. The text archive has also now been fully updated.

LINKERAMA

Friday, March 25th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Phew. For too long now, the links on this website have been broken. You will be pleased to hear that all have now been fixed, with the exception of the USA Diaries which I just couldn't face having ...

SOCK IT TO ‘EM

Sunday, March 20th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

You may remember from my post a couple of weeks ago that I managed to sell my very first item on E-Bay - a Nissan cap that I'd acquired for free and sold for

CREATE YOUR OWN ROAD RAGE

Thursday, March 17th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 14 Comments »

Instead of regaling my story of yesterday's road rage incident to you in extreme detail, bit by bit, insult by insult, I thought it might be more amusing for you to choose what happened from a selection of possible scenarios. ...

TURNING THIRTY?

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

So yesterday was my 26th birthday. Despite Debs trying to tell me to the contrary, at 26 I am still youthful and full of the joys of spring. However, when I turned up at work I did get asked if ...

WHO WANTS TO HAVE A PERSONALITY?

Sunday, March 13th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Last night I watched 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' over dinner. Like most people, this is a programme that I like and that I enjoy, despite the frustratingly slow progress before anything interesting happens and the irritating intervention ...

BUY IT, SELL IT, LOVE IT

Sunday, March 6th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 13 Comments »

Fantastic! It bloody works! Woo hoo! Why am I excited? Read on... At the Renault Nissan alliance party at the end of January, I took part in a game of Scalextric (holding a remote control and guiding ...

SAUCY TROUSERS

Sunday, February 27th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Heinz have just released a new shape bottle for their Ketchup product - advertised as a 'stay-clean cap', the bottle has the cap on the bottom, so that all the ketchup flows downwards into it, in contrast to the upwards-facing ...

REBOOT?

Sunday, February 27th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

If anyone has ever had any problems with a computer when at work, then you would have probably been told the ingenious, highly technological solution of "rebooting" - involving turning the computer off and on again. Unfortunately, the problems ...

CHEATS NEVER PROSPER

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Usually I am a real stickler for road etiquette. What does that mean? Well, it means that I let people out in front of me, I always say thank you when another driver flashes me through and I never queue-barge ...