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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When things go wrong
It went wrong a lot last week, really it did. It was insanely busy, perhaps even dangerously so, even with full numbers we were run off our feet. Amazingly, New Year’s night was seriously not-that-bad. Busy, yes. But not like every night following. People can’t drive in cold weather, I’ve noticed that. I’ve known for…
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You Lie!
Honda have apparently, somewhere, released the statistic that the production of a new car produces 840kg of CO2, a figure which roundly stamps upon the accepted wisdom that Greenpeace used to comment favourably upon which was that if you must drive a car, drive your car into the ground; because buying a new one uses…
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It’s XMAS! (Belated)
So, it being the holiday season, or at least the tail end of the holiday season I thought I’d emerge from the hole in which Kathryn and I have been hiding and wish you all a Very Merry (if somewhat late) Xmas. We, for our part, lurked inside the house and I had a fantastic…
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Nuts, and sadly not Cashews
So, for the last 5 years the venerable Philips Hugeatron Widescreen has been providing entertainment; coming from freecycle with an alledged ‘dead tube’ and being fixed with a 21p capacitor it has provided good service. It is getting on for 15 years old now, the set having been about 10 when I got it. Today,…
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Shedloads of Cash
Yesterday I engaged in shameless money grubbing, despite being exhausted I drove for an hour and a half after a revoltingly early wake up call, to go work in St. Marks Hospital for the Feverish and Sickly. I’ve done one shift there before – a night shift months ago – and bizzarely some of the…
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Meeeeeeeeeeme
A. People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blog and replace any question that they dislike with a new, original question. B. Tag eight people. Don’t refuse to do that. Don’t tag who tagged you. I dun’ play that game. I tag all my friends who’ve not done it who want…
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Sabotaged by badgers.
This is the most likely explanation for today’s occurrences. Whilst my plan was to service the Mog – in a limited way at least – grease all the grease-points, adjust the drum brakes at the back, repack the front hubs with grease (nearly forgot to do that), change the gearbox and engine oil, and that…
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There’s greasing to be done
So, ‘becca’s covered a full 3000 miles since her rebuild and it’s service time. While the newly rebuilt A+ engine has somewhat longer service intervals than the A-series, the suspension, gearbox and back-axle are all original mog and need servicing every 3000 miles. It’s a clear blue sky out there and I’m going to shower…
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le Weekend
So, despite the persistent sore throat (which has lead me to be worried about whether I got something icky in the small cut I found on my finger during one night shift (and hence whether I should have done an incident form and gone to occupational health); I have to remind myself that I had…
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Memories and Thinks
I was about to post about my plan, which I shall do in a minute, but I was distracted by reading emilydm’s post about going skating. Years ago, years and years ago, when I was but tinysmall, and my friends were similarly sized, my dad used to take us to a skating rink in London.…