Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Suggestion
Senior managers in the NHS should have to spend one month of every other year shadowing nurses or SHOs (FY2s) in ‘busy’ departments*. They should endure the joys of shift work, endure the joys of nights, understand what it’s like to work when a department is staffed by 70% agency due to sickness**. It might…
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I thought that…
I thought that adding 15 feet of extra shelving would more than replace the existing shelving even, perhaps, allowing space to move the books that are spilling off the end of the bookshelves, and crawling out of the corners of the rooms a place to live. I was wrong. Depressingly, 15 feet of shelving turns…
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Dear Hotpoint
Dear Hotpoint, Whilst my mum’s washer managed to last from 1978 until 2008 (and then only died after being submerged in 3 foot of river water) it has come to my attention that the WD series washer/drier I bought having moved into the house in 2007 has become ever more unreliable, and today has decided…
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I have a bit of soft spot
…for steam engines. They’re very…emotive…things. And this, well, this amuses me: Old things, they’re just better That is all.
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2.6 miles an hour
Yesterday my commute to work was very long. It normally takes between 30 and 45 minutes. Yesterday it took 5 hours. 5 hours, door-to-door traveling just over 13 miles. Seriously, people need to learn how to drive in the snow. It’s not *that* hard. I’m not exactly stellar, but if I can manouver a 20…
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Pretentious? Moi?
I know I’m not the greatest writer in the world, but I’m debating carrying on with this. Sort of. In a way. —- Outside the stars glint appealingly, calling her to come out again. She’s done it before many times, and she slips quietly from under the covers. Her family are well used to her…
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Decisions, decisions.
So, work is progressing on ‘becca, Jonathon’s sent me more photos – which show just how completely knackered she was, and how much of the previous restorer’s work has had to be cut out to make a structurally sound vehicle. Thanks to yesterday I’m not really taking this in the positive light in which I…
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Spoilt
So, Kathryn mentioned (in the nicest possible way) while I was whining about computers that I am, potentially, a little bit spoilt. I am a geek, and in geek terms, I’d say I’m not spoilt. Were I spoilt in Geek terms, the Ent.Mac would be every bit as shiny as possible, and probably a real…
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Bing! And the Carb is Gone
So, it’s been a productive week: – Floor tiles laid & grouted in the hallway (still need cleaning and coating though) – G-Wiz recommissioned and taken to my mum’s – Much art measured, framed and hung – A new bin in the kitchen that smells less like it’s filled with many dead things – CV…
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46 miles in a GWiz
So, excuse the slow posts, I’m blaming that partly on our internet connection which has turned to crap. When it rains, ironically, it now works better. I’m supposing that water makes a better connective material than whatever crappy bit of copper is currently running from our house out to BT’s exchange. It is, however, something…