Beds, Books and Buttons ... (and other stuff)

Yes, Beds to start off with ... some sofa beds are simply only fit for sitting on and even then their use is questionable! Trust me on this one, a solid base on which to lay is not good for the back or any other part of the body and boy did I so not get a lot of sleep in a recent sleep out. Memo to self ... take something soft to lay on next time.

Just finished my latest book 'Eric' and along with the one I read previously, 'The Colour of Magic' I have to say I was disappointed. Terry Pratchett just does not write consistently good books. Both of these seemed to have either no real end as in 'The Colour of Magic" or, a very weak one such as 'Eric' It is almost as though he didn't plan on ending the book there but ran out of ideas so cobbled something together for the last few pages.

I am back to wearing a zipper jean now after a while of buttons. The problem is that with buttons I don't bother doing them all up so never actually touch them at all. Switching back to the zip I have to remind myself to do it and more often than not, I don't!

A friend of mine has just recently been told he'll most likely be made redundant come January. I think he himself said some time ago he felt as though he was stuck in a rut but not so much as to gamble on a career change from such a steady job. I so hope that this is his chance to do something which really makes him happy and excited about his work. I hope he gets something positive from the experience because he's a really nice guy and deserves some happiness from his career.

Less than a week to go now before Deej and I head south to Disney and I am really excited about it. Not so much that it will get me yet further into debt and that I am going to get yet even further into debt when I get back ... the start of 2008 is not going to see me well financially and with further promised expenses looming early in the new year I have to confess to being moderately concerned.

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You Bloody Idiot

I had a really enjoyable time in Meltham with Stan and Pete, even that walk against the wind up the pub on Saturday evening in a blizzard was fun. On the way there I thought it’d be fun to take some pictures of the car in the snow. I had not realised just how windy it was, I seriously thought my door was stuck when I tried to open it but it was just being pressurised by the forces outside. I am lucky really the wind had not been behind me else the door would have been ripped off. On the way back on Sunday I paid a visit to Sue in Sheffield. I like Sue and she is a great conversationalist. The journey was not without incident as the satnav kept failing and crashing and just became useless. I eventually tracked the problem down to the loudspeaker connection for the mount and once I’d removed that it was stable and guided me well to Sue’s door. I am really happy to report that the steroid injection I had last week as helped ease my pain. I still have the pain but it is not restricting me ...

Budget Day

So, we have the ‘Let’s buy a whole host of gullible voters day’ with George Osborne. No doubt we’ll be told how employment is rising, how the deficit is falling, how we’re all so much better off now than we were (compared to what?). We’ll be told that there are still tough times ahead but that only a Conservative government can steer us through them. It will be pointed out how inflation remains low, how not raising duty on fuel has helped everyone as is seen by the current lower prices at the pumps (it’s going up again George). In short, I should listen to this budget later and decide to vote Conservative in May but, I won’t. Labour certainly did nothing to avoid the mess the country got in but they didn’t cause it. They made the mistake of trying to be too conservative, allowing high finance the freedom to cause a catastrophic cock up for which they took zero responsibility. They made the mistake of allowing Gordon Brown to take the job of Prime Minister, one for which he is totally...

There are some funny people in this world!

Earlier on this year someone added me on Facebook. Quite soon she was adding many people I knew. We were starting to wonder who this was as there was so little on her profile. To be on the safe side and, suspecting it may be someone pretending to be someone else, I was careful what I wrote to them. Eventually, it did become very obvious it was someone faking a profile. I challenged them to stay if they wanted but, today they deleted the profile. I have never done anything to upset this person, I just exist. She added me and my family just to take the piss out of us and to try and get extra ammunition to use against my friends, it is all rather sad. Speaking of sad … Look, I fully understand that James has issues, what they are, I don’t have a clue but he has them and it is for Daisy and him to sort out. I think Daisy would have liked to sort it out between them but, it seems, they are going to have to take the legal route. I totally get all that. I don’t like it but – such is life....

Steve from England

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