Hit and Running

This is something that I feel like I have to share even though it’s about something really personal. If you’re the sort of person who can’t be doing with deep and meaningfuls, I suggest you look away now. Everyone else, if you want to learn something about me, carry on. I ultimately want this to be a positive account but it might be a bit dark to begin with.

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I love Christmas. No, really, I do. Yes, it’s always ever so slightly disappointing on the gift front, but it’s better to give than to receive particularly when you’re a notoriously awkward person to buy for. What I find difficult is that there’s quite a lot of hanging around involved.

Take today, for instance. Today I woke up at a reasonable hour, but stayed in bed until eleven because there wasn’t really any great reason to get up (it’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere etc…). Quick shower, some breakfast, and a decision that I may as well amuse myself in town, since I appeared to have missed Homes Under The Hammer and This Morning are still on their Christmas break.

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Those of you who are waiting on an exciting post on my exciting holiday to South Africa are going to have to wait just a little bit longer (I’m still on holiday and can’t be arsed).

In the mean time, here’s a picture from my new Dutch friend Alex that might just whet your appetite…

Keep your fingers inside the bars

I work in a town that takes bonfire celebrations seriously. You could say they were obsessed to an almost offensive degree with burning effigies of religious figures. I’m never one to complain about being let out of work early (they close the roads at 5, so that they have more space in which to burn papier mache models of well known people – they did Steve Irwin in 2006, someone not far away has burnt a papier mache caravan full of pikies, you get the picture). I do chuckle to myself though, when I walk past things like this in the car park…

OK, first things first, this post has nothing to do with the well known company, Cable and Wireless. It’s actually got nothing to do with cables either, but I couldn’t think of anything else to call it. It’s also going to be of minimal interest to anyone except me, as I’m writing it for my own future reference more than anything else.

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