I had three model shoots booked for this coming weekend but I have had to cancel one of them as I need to work on Sunday. I have been lucky over the last few months in that I have felt the need to do only the odd few hours work but this time I have …
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The purse theft
My wife and youngest daughter came down to work with me this week. Well, they cadged a lift to the outskirts of London from me (and because of my knee problems got to have more of a lie in bed than they had originally anticipated). I dropped them off at a bus-stop on the business …
Midnight chainsaw
Our sleep was broken by hours and hours of chainsawing going on throughout most of the night in order for electricity network people to get at a cable to restore power.
Brain op girl – not for the squeamish
A colleague shares a few tasteful photos of her brain operation. She had a life-threatening brain tumour and a major operation. She has bounced back seemingly positive and looking forward to the future.
32% of girls self-harm
A radio programme I caught for a while yesterday advised that around 32% of girls self-half at some point in their school life. I spoke to my eldest last night who assured me that this was about right from her experience. She said that over the years many of her friends had self-harmed. We went …
Arghh!!!! Damned cough
Off work with a bad cough and asthma complications again. Really getting to me now.
Chicken killer
We have just a couple of egg-layer chickens left that have been malting and not laying for a while. Their production rate had dropped off anyway and we figured that they were coming to the end of their useful productive life. My SO was in the pen replenshing their feed when the new dog bashed …
The cat has done a runner
We finally have to admit to ourselves that the cat (the only one we had left) has done a runner. Despite being with us for some 9 or so years, she got really scared by the addition of a second dog to the household. This is despite the fact that when the dog was first …
Kyle Mills Smoke Screen
An unexpected read that kept me up all night. I bought it cheap with a job-lot of other books. It is about a bit of a non-entity (our anti-hero) who has worked for a large tobacco firm all his life. In fact, he is tied to it as his grandfather was one of the founders. …