Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
My old canvas motorbike cover had seen better days when it disappeared. I can only assume that the cover blew off the bike in the wind and someone threw it away, mistaking the dirty and ripped cover for a discarded rag, and I can't blame them for that. ...
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009
My neighbour's cat moved in with me and the neighbour was concerned about the kitty being a nuisance. A couple of short discussions helped convince my neighbour that, actually, I really like cats and I'm fine with her treating my flat like a hotel, as that's what cats do. ...
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Browsing around at LOLCATS I notice an advert for Shana Logic, an on-line company whose adverts I have seen here before as they often show off attractive and stylish wares at the side of the photos of cats with wacky captions. This time something catches my attention enough to ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
My neighbour's cat has been spending an awful lot of time with me, seemingly either being inside my flat or outside and roaming, and the neighbour hadn't been around to check that Panda cat was okay. However, after quite a few weeks my neighbour calls and asks, 'Is my ...
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Late last year I come home to find a small kitty mewing at my neighbour's door. I have seen the neighbour just walk inside and, as it is cold and damp, knock on the door to let her know her kitten is outside wanting to come in. There ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
When I joined up with some friends to see Watchmen at the IMAX last week we spent a little time wandering around comic shops. In Forbidden Planet I saw a superb statue of a character from the Oh! My Goddess! manga and although I generally don't buy statues ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
It's another meme! Melmoth randomly generates his band's album cover, following the advice of Greenspeak, and is keen to see other examples. I am not one to refuse such a polite request, even if I almost completely lack any image manipulation skills.
I like the results, I have to ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
A colleague calls from his car saying he is on the M1 junction's exit slip road and it is an hour later before he makes it in to work, having travelled the one mile or so left of the journey. It seems that the horrendous traffic that I got ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
There was a fresh snowfall yesterday morning, but not so much as to stop me from jumping in the car and making the daily commute. Sadly, the weather north of the M25 had different ideas about my getting to work. The snowfall wasn't great, but combined with the ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
We have our biggest snow fall of the last six years! Everything is so pretty with a blanket of untouched snow covering it. Unfortunately, because we get snow so rarely, maybe a couple of times a year in any significant depth, we simply are not equipped to cope ...
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