Image from Wikipedia‘Nothing works’, as Catweazle used to say and if he were to have appeared some 38 years later than previously he’d be uttering this exclamation quite frequently.
Having yesterday bought a toaster after a number of years just using the gas grill we found that inevitably the item was defective.
Earlier in the week I’d [...]
And lo a matter of days after the delivery of a glass recycle box the first collection occurred early today. A lone advance bin man (or garbologist as some may now classify him) moved alone and on foot with a large black bin (or ‘otto’ as they call them in Australia) and proceeded to noisily [...]
A swift charge around the supermarket aisles today gave me two subliminal music messages via the store tannoy: I could be happy by Altered Images and F.E.A.R by Ian Brown.
There seemed to be a lot of people just standing and staring into space. Perhaps I was one of them. Also there were a lot of [...]
Meanwhile in the modern world where snail mail is still used…The postal strike is over and slowly mail is getting through again (shame about the bills). This was how a letter arrived today conveniently pre opened (how thoughtful). My heart initially sank though mercifully the letter and cheque inside was still intact.
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Today was a bit different that most in that we met up with our Internet friend Vlad from the Ukraine whom I’d met randomly on-line around 2 years ago. He was over here for a week to see his friends who had come here to work and he wanted to meet the couple he [...]
