And everyone can take the shades off their eyes now.
October is over and Bright Meadow is no longer that hideous, garish, burning shade of pink *
I don’t regret a minute of turning Pink for October and I will be doing it again next year, though hopefully with a slightly more tasteful (and liveable with) approach [...]

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I’ve just realised something about myself: I am a pen snob.
I rarely hand write things these days and when I do I normally just grab any old biro that’s lying around. When I’m taking notes in class my weapon of choice has always been a Pilot V5. It has smooth flowing ink, lasts a [...]

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Note well, all my fine feathered international friends: the clocks changed here in the UK this weekend and went back an hour. Which means were are now on GMT.

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First off my heart felt apologies to anyone who has had the misfortune of trying to get hold of me the last two/three weeks. I’ve been even worse than normal due to a larger-than-usual workload. Any one who managed to get even one email/phone call/text out of me is a lucky sod indeed. All the [...]

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I love my job.
It’s not every day you get asked (very politely) by a gentleman if you would like to participate in a survey and inspect his instrument.
The poor dear looked very disappointed when I declined his kind offer.
As I said, I love my job - you meet some amazing people (along with the odder [...]

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I apologise to Bush supporters for the following.
Then again, you should be used to this kind of thing by now.
A Riddle
On his trip to Great Britain, George Bush had a meeting with Queen Elizabeth. He asked her, “How does one manage to run a country so smoothly?”
“That’s easy,” she replied, “You surround yourself with intelligent [...]

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All I want for Christmas is a tea-cosy.
It was realising this just now that made me face the fact - I am a sad, sad sod and I really need to get a life.

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I do hope you enjoy this week’s Roast - I enjoyed writing it, though I have to wonder why the blogging gods hate me so much. I have insane amounts of other things to do this weekend, so they conspire to give me oodles of roastable material. In the weeks when I am bored out [...]

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Following numerous grumbles, I’ve decided not to have the ‘mini meadow’ section in the sidebar any more.
Whilst I did like these little asides, they weren’t really noticeable unless you read the site via RSS, and large chunks of my readership were missing out on some fun conversations. So they are no more (the asides, not [...]

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*gulp*
That’s all I have to say.

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