Category: Life
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Pics or it didn’t happen.
There were only two good pictures of me from the Outlaw. On the bike and on a mission: and just about to cross the finish line: Every other picture looked like a sad, beaten, old duffer who was half dead . Which, to be fair, is 50% better than I was feeling. The other good…
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Jumping for joy?
Quick update. First off, my dream job at the Co-Op. It turned into a nightmare. The hours are great, the money was great, they treated you great, but all the stores were on the very edge of what is physically possible. Previously my satnav would say “turn left” and I’d look into a tiny back…
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Ups and downs.
I’ve properly started my new job now. I had 7 days of training first. I had a 2 hours driving assessment to start with. Then I started the training 7 days. I was supposed to do a day’s classroom, a day out with a driver (just watching) a day’s classroom then a whole day out…
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Glorious English Reich.
Pig-shagger Dave has done it. Years back I said, with chilling prescience, of the EU referendum: “It’ll never happen. Thick people would vote out. They’ll never allow it.” So wrong. Along came Dave. I think he set the EU ref as a trap for the next government, never thinking it would be his. Others have…
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Rorschach
Just remember my favourite bit from an Alan Moore comic, Rorschach explaining how he became Rorschach to the shrink. He’d found a house of a kidnapper who’d murdered a little girl. Handcuffed him then set the house on fire. “Stood in street. Watched it burn. Imagined limbless felt torsos inside; breasts blackening; bellies smouldering, bursting…