tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63807812011-11-12T10:32:07.207Zin the silence only the darkness hears my typingstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241458622872958816noreply@blogger.comBlogger1521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380781.post-6822153318475829402007-06-21T17:05:00.000+01:002007-08-15T06:18:58.169+01:00

my blog has moved to hereplease update your bookmarks and linkssorry for any inconvenience 

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... paint that bit of wall... not stay up so late... get more done in a day... try not to spend so much time on my new mac... blog more oftenbut who has the time

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so we made it to new york via the upper class virgin loungevery tempted to stay there and not bother with the trippeople kept asking me if i needed anythingand then just bringing it to menirvanai was persuaded by the lady wife that trogging up 5th Ave ... in the middle of the night ... with an expensive gadget under my arm ... was foolhardy ... the apple store on 5th is open 24/7 ... it was very

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many years ago in another country i got to do something that changed my lifei happened to be working for a computer software house and they asked me to teach people how to use a new machine called a Mac Plus ... they had the cutest GUI and i fell in loveI never quite understood how computers could be 'fun' until that moment ... i didn't know how to programme ... the internet was in it's very

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i have just spent two weeks without my computeri won't bore you with the crap customer service provided by Sony Vaioyou know the score by now ... slow ... indifferent ... never calling back when they say they willfrom now on we should only talk of customer service when it is good ... you know ... how it should beso that was what life was like before 1984 ... hmmm ... don't like it

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i have slowly been working on the garden ... i am a reluctant gardener but i also recognise that there is little substitute for hard work and planning ... in a back breaking / dirt under the nails kinda wayas this winter has been mild ... (yeah it could be global warming but it also might just have been a mild winter) ... i have been able to get ahead ... i have started some seeds off in the

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so ... i'm a boyand boys like gadgetsbut this one really wasn't my faulta few weeks ago the lady wife started a conversationthat went something like thisladywife: do you think if we got a flat screen TV and put it on the wall above the fireplace we could get rid of that unit ... make more space ... add a couple of chairs so we have more seatingme: (hardly daring to breathe) (not believing my luck

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in a bit of a Victor Meldrew mood this morning ...Congestiontoday is the day that the London congestion charge area is extended ...as the news is wittering in the background the lady wife commented that some of her work colleagues are pleased about the extensionapparantly if you live in the extension zone you get to pay a fixed fee for the year ... which is much cheaper than paying each time you

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so my aunt appearednot in a cloud of smoke you understandjust ... you know ... came around for the eveningand she came with a gift for usA Kenwood Chefthe kind with all the attachments ... whisk ... blender ... mincerthe thing is it is over 30 years oldand it is amazinga real workhorse of an applianceand looking as if it has just come out of it's box(the Kenwood chef ... not my aunt)i went online

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yeah i know the last post was very longthat happens sometimesthis one is shorti like snowi like the way it makes the world look all flumpyand the way it makes us feel like childrengo on admit ityou just wanna throw snowballsit's nice sometimes to realise with a big joltthat your inner child ain't so inner after all

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this is not a blog dedicated to fighting the cause of customer service ... truly... but sometimes i have to just get stuff off my chest ... and if i can't do it here ... just skip to the next blog if this stuff bores the pants off youso my car was hit by someone in a car park ... and the wheel arch was badly damaged and it needed repairing ... as they had to spray the side of the car to blend the

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I had this plan ... i made sure that i had no cigarettes on me ... none left at all... I went on a long flight with long delays and lots of standing about before and afterwards ... i just craved a cigarette ... so i smokedonly now i am smoking with guilt ... which takes the edge of the pleasurethen i came home and berated myself and told myself i could do itI picked a day ... stopped smoking ...

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the current blog silence is due to the fact this blogger is in agonymedical opinion is that i have wrenched/twisted a muscle (medial scapula if your interested) probably caused by being on a bus ... the lurching as the bus braked ... not unusual apparantlynow ... i am sure you can guess where i am going with this ...i had plenty of reasons for avoiding public transport in the past but this

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on the subject of new yearwe do of course wish all and sundry a Happy New Year ... we even hope you had a Happy Christmas ... see the thing is ... we arrived in NY fully intending to email everyone with Christmas wishes ... once we got there we realised that the online version of our email service does not have all our address info in it and no obvious way of achieving it other than manually

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i believe it is right to complain as well as praiseif you get exceptional levels of service you should acknowledge itequally if things are bad (especially if you have paid for the service) then it is perfectly ok to say so ... for me this is usually quickly followed by high blood pressure and losing it big time as i discover that the bad service is enhanced by a complete lack of understanding in

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before we left to visit America we called our bankjust to tell them we would be in another country for a couple of weeksthye told it was ok there was no need to inform themafter two days in America our bank card was declinedthe following day we called the 24 hour helplinewho told us that yes our card had been blockedno they didn't know whyand the department who could help were closedso we called

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we hired a Jeep SUV so we could get around easier ... this country really does operate best by car and we know all the arguments for not having an SUV but we figured we would never buy one it was the best country to to try one outfirst couple of days were fine ... had just commented to the wife how we had done quite well so far ... no honking at us ... no hitting anything ... no going on the

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The friends we are staying with live in a very swanky area … all multi millionaires … huge houses … and the most incredible Christmas light in the gardens … lights in the shape of little deer whose heads move and look as if they are nibbling the grass … yeah I know but I can’t help it I really really want one … scratch that … I want a herd My favourite sign so far … Yield To Peds met a

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JFK was another long tedious queue … just in front of us were a plane load from Korea … watching the security staff deal with them was interesting … I was listening my ipod and watching a mime of prejudice before my eyes … holding up a passport in front of someone’s face to compare and see if it was the same person … then calling over a colleague and them both discussing it in front of the person

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We have gone away to New York for the duration of the Holidays (see how I speak the language) … consequently the blog entries will be a bit spasmodic and probably random subjects as I think of stuff … I was considering not blogging and having a rest from it then I realised if I did that I would forget stuff It has been awhile since we have flown to an international destination … and wow has that

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because ...it has cost me so much money over the yearsit is truly a disgusting dirty habiti don't want to spend the rest of my life doing thisit will make the wife happyit is not big and it is not cleverit locks me into things from my past which it shouldn'ti should never have started in the first placei will feel healthier within a short space of timestopping dramatically increases your vocal

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the last few days have been spent mostly in Welsh Walesa few days with the in-laws at their time-share eating far too much ... wandering around small welsh towns that seem to have an abundance of 'gift' shops where the word gift is debatable ... we played table tennis and took part in the pub quiz ... the previously two efforts have seen us win but this time we had to settle for fourth place ...

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note the colour in honour of monks habits :)i spent the day at a Moot learning dayit was all about New Monastic ... community living ... urban monkson this learning day i learnt ...1that people who go to Vineyard churches can be quite funny and nice to meet (but i still wouldn't want to risk it too often ... odds are against that being true all the time)2that i keep coming across (who i can only

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so i figured i would use the train againi was going up to Victoria for the day it made sense to just pop up by trainrather than paying congestion charge and having the car parked all dayi checked the times online and found that i needed to leave half an hour earlier than i thought due to something called engineering worksarrived at the station in plenty of timethe board shows my train was due at

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so yesterday i abandoned the car to join the norges on the train and the tube ... after seeing them off i joined the wife and we travelled back together by train ... now i think i have mentioned before that i don't really do public transport ... partly because it is usually incredibly inconvenient for what i need to do and the time of night i end up returning home ... mostly because i hate iti

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have just spent the last 3 days in the company of Norwegians ... boy they are good for the soul ... well this boy's soul anyway ... a slightly odd experience as my friend came over with his 17 year old son ... a son who is almost the same age as his father was when i first met him ... where did all that time go? ... i have this theory that gets proved again and again ... if the child has turned

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if i ever meet a town planner socially ...i was driving home the other day .. like you do .. and i started to muse on how awful the planning of traffic flow is ... bits of bus lane for 20 feet so traffic has to all move over to just move back again ... bad lane design at junctions so everything gets snarled up ... how hard would it be to have some 'experts' actually drive a route and find out

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Do You Wanna Go Large? ...it was remarked on recently by a friend that he struggled to read my blog because the text was too small ... so in the interest of keeping everyone happy and until he gets stronger glasses i will type a little larger ... just thought i would explain in case you thought i was suddenly shouting or trying to make a really vehement pointThe Land Of The Free ...so the

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responding to recent commentsand this is my chosen method ... it saves everybody looking in comments all the timeon the subject of tom tom'sstuart said ...I'm sooooooooooo jealous I want one. Meant to be shopping for one after christmas, hey we can compare them at GB, what other voices can you get, oh its not fair I want mine now!won't comparing comments make us slightly like those uncles at

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i don't really talk about music on this blog enough ... it is one of my passions but i guess it is so personal and so open to PTTP (people taking the piss) (yes liz you know you are on that list - let's drop the innocent look shall we?) that i shy away from anything but the odd comment when i am enthusing about the latest track that is consuming meall of which is madness ... i love music ... it

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as is often the case you will pay for it the morning after ...i don't tend to get seriously drunk that often ... and if i do set out to have one of those nights i will stick to the same drink ... a good vodka - ice cold - tonic - and a slab of lime ... if your buying? ... it lessens the effect the next morning if you don't mix the drinkshowever the other half of the family has the most terrible

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we gathered a few london based people in a bar last weekend for the sole purpose of getting smashed ... i know childish but sometimes it has to be done ... it was partly a birthday thing and partly something to mark the end of the 'thing' (the crap bits of the last five years that was finally ended and for that evening was only allowed to be referred to as 'the thing').i drank far too much ...

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it was my birthday yesterday ... oh did i not mention :)and my favourite gift was a tom tomthe GPS thingy not the drum thingnot only is it amazing and makes this old man marvel at technology and mutter things like 'ooo isn't it marvelous what they can do nowadays' ... it has one added point of amusement ... i downloaded the John Cleese voice ... fantastici have to go and have it hardwired into

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DisclaimerThis entry is not based on any recent event or the action of any person or friend in thought, word or deed. It is a combination of thoughts that have raised some interesting questions for me. I would not want anybody to ever feel that I was anything other than and would always remain your humble servant in our walk together on this weird journey we call life.I have been musing

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the other day i had a young German lad staying at our house ... i say young he was 23 but everything is relative when it is the day before your birthday ... and as i typed that i realised that tomorrow that makes him half my age ... doncha just hate the young :) anyway i digress ... at one point he showed me something on the computer and asked if he could check his emails ... i sat across the

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sally said ...I lvoe it that you take time to reply to comments!!! So caring!!! No resposne to suggesting you breakfst at the Star Diner tho..so hurt... I saw the Chorus Line shows in London in 76/77. Sorry, does that make me very old.....I will dig out the programmes for you..... have to reply now really don't i :)the star diner ... i was politely ignoring the fact that i had already mentioned

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before i forget ... mike commented the other day "Good God, man, you don't do brevity, do you?" ... sorry mike we have met? ... and your point was? ... well this may well turn out to be a long post again ... take a run up to it ... read a bit at a time ... where is it written that blogs have to be pithy or short or brief ?... sometimes i do little posts ... other times i ramble a bit ... i make

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just replying to some recent comments ... nobody has ever explained to me how this should be done ... do people go back to the comments page to see if they have been answered? ... anyway i figure this is the best format ... if you aint interested just click onsally said ...Video call??? Video call??? What is communication between friends coming to??? So high tech nowadays..and I have only just

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the other evening found me at Gatwick Airport... wife ... belfast ... massive flight delay ... the usual storyi decided to pass some time getting a coffee and buying some books (i love those large format airport paperbacks) as i was waiting to pay i spied a copy of Time Out NY ... well how could i not ... i figured it would help me with research ... i sat down with my coffee and flicked open the

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in my defence it is a classic and the reason i feel the need to defend it is that i have already had the slightly sneery comments '... and you wonder why they call you camp' ... 'why are you gonna see that!?' ... 'good grief was nothing else on'the thing is i have seen the film, read the script, have the soundtrack on my ipod and to be honest i feel slightly more comfortable defending a classic

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look i will get over it but for now i am a little bit over excitedi need some help with my New York tripwe have been before and kind of done the major touristy things with two weeks in the Big Apple i need to find some stuff to doso i thought i would ask for some inputnothing works better than personal recommendationwhat is your favourite thing to do or see in New York?naturally we want to do a

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so ... we have booked tickets with ...so we can spend christmas here ...and we also get to see the new production of ...seriously over excited and happy ...one singular sensation ... tum de tum

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can't recall where i read this now ... either an article or a blog entry by someone (why can't i train myself to make notes of interesting stuff) ... anyway ... someone somewhere was commenting about those annoying little notices that have started appearing in public places ... they say something along the lines of 'our staff will not stand for any kind of verbal abuse and they deserve to be

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Have spent the last few days suffering from a sleep injuryI seem to have wrenched a muscle in my shoulder which is agonyWent to an NHS walk in clinic so they could tell me what was wrong Apparently it is called Torticollis and basically the diagnosis was ‘yeah it happens sometimes in your sleep if you turn over in an odd way and no we can’t really do anything about it take some nurofen and lie

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we wonon every single thing we wonthey upped the awardit took four hours and a lot of ... well let's just call it debate shall webut eventually they agreed they were wrong and we were right after a debrief i drove to Regent Street to visit the Apple storewhere i purchased a brand new 80gb ipod ... it was my reward for having been so goodi returned home where i had a very large vodka ... and

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Parental Warning – very long – no really a long post – I was killing time – feel free to ignore or press back or make a cup of tea I really don’t mind – but at the time it did me good to write it all down i was going to waffle on about this and thatbut the truth is this is one of those long nights that i want to be overa tardis would be good right now ... I could skip forward 24 hoursi have

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i can't imagine why anybody would want to do thisand nothing makes me feel more inadequate than people being all noble my friend is doing this to raise money for the kidsand i said i would tell others about it help me encourage him pleasejust leave him lots of messages like 'feel the burn' & no pain no gain'

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241458622872958816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380781.post-1159269815087641972006-09-26T12:04:00.000+01:002006-09-26T12:23:35.113+01:00

went away without my laptopi know i know - but it seemed like the best way of distancing myself from all the stuff i was trying to sort out - odd logic but sometimes some space enables you to think clearerit feels like we spent more time on motorways than actually stopping anywhere - M1 roadworks beyween jct 6-10 are just rubbish ... and explain to me please how 'road widening ' means that

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this made me laugh so much not the serious biblical summarybut the little comment at the endclick hereit keeps coming back to me at inappropriate moments

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actually answers to bits of comments ... those bits that took my fancy or made me laughHugger StewardFor lack of anything to say actually related to the question that wouldn't just be my view of mummy's experience (& therefore pretty unneccessary since she'll have already made any of the worthwhile points)now i really will take you task on that remark young hugger ... as anybody over thirty

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i was bitching on the phone to a friend the other day ...let's start againmy friend and I were chatting on the phone ... nah we were bitchingwhen she commented how she was so misunderstood ... i agreed with her ... although thinking about it afterwards, her arguments for being misunderstood were a little weak. In fact so weak that a six year old thinking of becoming a defence lawyer sometime in

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if i was poetic, which clearly i am noti would consider writing poems about mundane stuffTrashwalking around the houseemptying binsputting things awaystraightening stuffclearing surfaceseverything in it's placefinished withno longer neededhumming half tunesthinking of peoplewho passed this wayleaving their debrisglad you came to visitdo come againnice to see youhave you finished with this?

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Parental Advisory - another long post - sorry when you have stuff to say it happens!this is going to be funfor anybody who knows me it will not be difficult to work out what i am talking about ... for the purposes of discussion (and the fact that despite my desire for open honest debate, even i begrudgingly accept that it is unfair to actually name names) it will be necessary for me to avoid

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Parental Advisory – this post is long Already I feel the question of ordination will be equal to the length of the actual process. I have started to discuss it with friends which feels a bit weird because for all I know the first official discussion could result in a ‘you must be kidding’ kind of response, which would make me look just a tad foolish. The thing is that my friends are my

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this made me laugh so muchit is from bigbulkyanglicanFor all you good Christian folk who are into Myers Briggs one or other of these prayers might come in handy:ISTJ: Lord help me to relax about insignificant details beginning tomorrow at 11:41.23 am e.s.t.ISTP: God help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive.ESTP: God help me to take responsibility for my own

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how do bloggers know? i no sooner write something after a long hiatus and they all swoop. maybe they just gossip much more than i do. thanks for the encouragement. I think there is a little bit of debate needs to happen between Kathryn & Sally over the issue of faith. One eventually gives up and removes me and the other faithfully believes i will return. Or put another way, one gets the message

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After five years of fighting I finally have a hearing to decide on compensation for the sexual abuse I suffered. Too complicated to explain in any detail. It has reached the stage where a Barrister involved in these kind of cases has offered to represent me for no charge, as in his opinion it has become a landmark case. If things don’t go well next month his next action is to take it to the

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I have one of those situations which I can’t talk about much but makes me want to smash furniture and blow up cars, so I need to express some feelings in keeping with the new rules of no compromise no surrender. I do a lot of work for a charity. The last year has been spent battling with two particular people who have now stooped to the level of trying to accuse me of fiddling expenses.

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I fell into some conversations, like you do. Before I knew it I was looking up and seeing some very obvious things staring me in the face. Conversations looped around the fact that there was a new way to be ordained that recognised the stuff you were already doing. For the first time it made sense. Maybe it is a feeling of being stronger and having something to offer. Supported and being

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The place where Greenbelt left me was to re-visit basic agreements with God. My own personal deal if you like. Simply put, it is one of no compromise and no surrender but it also touches on things like standing in truth and stating truth and not being afraid of truth. Others may lie or deceive or feel the need to play politics but there is no need for me to participate. To remind myself that

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I stopped blogging. You may have noticed. I struggled with all the things I was dealing with and not knowing how to write about them. I have just been to Greenbelt and returned home.It felt like a watershed in so many ways and I think I can handle writing again. I think maybe I need to write and I need to be honest. If you can’t be honest what is the point.i guess that is a kind of

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The day before yesterday while Sharon was otherwise engaged I was doing various things with the G5 and I casually set a little programme going to test the Hard Drive to make sure all was well. I wouldn’t normally worry with something so new but figured I may as well walk away knowing that I have checked everything and all is well.It reported an error. It actually reported quite a serious error in

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This is where we went surreal, up to this point we had been mildly frustrated, but to be fair to all involved it wasn’t Sharon’s fault that the world had passed her by and that she was unaware of annoying little things like upgrades, updates and new OSX. It wasn’t the fault of the little G3 that it was growing old and had served its purpose and could no longer keep up.But when a company, whose

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We get it home, unpack it, set it up, plug it in, make a cup of tea and prepare to join the information highway, the global village … nothing happens at allEverything is setup correctly and let’s face it people, nowadays with the way these machines are designed they almost know what you want to do before you think it.Do you want to join the internet?Yes please.Ok would you like to use that little

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Picture the scene – we are standing in front of the latest state of the art Imac – the teenage grandson of Sharons G3 – it has Intel Core, 250GB HD and looks beautiful (to be honest I am mostly impressed by the looks as well) – it will do what Sharon needs it to do. Best of all it is reduced by £200 because a customer had taken it home then returned a few days later because he ‘didn’t get on with

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Part OneFor the last seven days I have been lost in Bee Tee hell … let me explainIt all started when a friend, who we will call Sharon to protect the innocent, wanted to add Bee Tee Broadband to her life. Sharon has an IMac G3 … one of those cute blue ones … which she has had for about six years. Now Sharon has never claimed to know very much about computers and the world is littered with such

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Last night I was sat minding my own business in a town centre … smoking a cigarette and waiting for my aunt who was doing some shopping ...a young teenage lad strolled up to me and started to tell me about God – full on evangelism ... I couldn’t help it I laughed ... the irony … he was really offended ..i explained what I do and that I had been a Christian for some time ... he told me off for

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borrowed/nicked from moby's blog (http://www.moby.com/journal)"...Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV. And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign...".made me laugh so muchso truehad

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saw a little crocus in our garden the other morning and announced to all and sundry that spring was on it's way - we have now had three days of very cold mornings - i was maybe a bit previous in announcing spring - but i meant wellso i was up early and browsing around blogs - cathcing up with what various friends were doing - and decided that i should use this quiet time of the day to write a

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maybe i should rename this blog - 'once a month' or 'irregular blogging'it really wasn't my fault - oh what's the use i keep forgetting or can't think of anything to writeover the last month i have spent the best part of two weeks in court on behalf of a friend - a year after they first made allegations of historical abuse - a long processbecause the first few days the family and the victim were

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Yeah I know … I haven’t blogged in ages … I agree I am a very bad person … so sue meThe decorating finally got finished and somewhere I have some photos … but as you will see I have been a little distracted … there are still a couple of bits to finish off (snagging they call it in the building trade) … we now have a nice shiny new study but I am afraid I will never again take on a project that

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Ok thenFinally remembered how to do photos(ok what I actually did was find an old blog entry and copy the codeWhich now bothers me that I still don’t know … all I know is how to cut n paste)But here are the first batchthe horrible wallpaper that we have lived with for over three years what happens when you remove skirting my first plastering attempt … ‘hmmm now how do we do smooth?’I’m gonna

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I am now having to plan my day around being clean or dirtyHow much decorating stuff can I get done before I need to get clean to be able to get to that meeting in timeHave now pulled up some of the floor to be able to re-organise the wiring … it is very grubby under floor boards … I will have to hoover before I put it all back … slightly worrying to be fiddling with electricity (or magic as we

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Up with the crack of sparrows knee caps and off to the builders merchants to buy huge bags of plaster … lady wife decided there is no need for both of us to go so she stays in bed and leaves me to do all the humping alone (ooo err missus) (international readers don’t even try to make any sense of that last paragraph)After coffee and fresh doughnuts (method acting) we get going on the plastering …

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After a morning spent running around picking up supplies we eventually approached the task of plastering a wall … just a little wall to see how it turned out Had a cup of tea, read The Sun, hitched up my trousers … lit a fag … and then made my first bucket of muck … well that’s what our builders called itWith the lady wife acting as plasters mate we had a go … good grief it was hard work …

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well ladies you may well be right (just called liz a lady )as that is all we have done for the last 48 hours it is really all i can talk about we have stripped quite a lot of the room nowas soon as we have finished i will work out how to put up pictures ... i did know how to do it but i've forgotten ... we are trying to do some pictures of before, during and afterthe wallpaper is all off which is

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i do have those moments when i don't write anythingi say moments it's more like a month ... how long is a moment?sometimes it is because i just get busy and sometimes i feel i have little to write about ... well writing down a paragraph like ... 'got up ... ate ... ambled about a bit ... put some stuff away ... pondered ... emptied the bins ... pondered some more ... slept' ... well it's hardly

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The DebatesAs Holy Joes we had three late night debates which we think went ok … hampered by the usual things like the worship thing before us one night over running by twenty minutes and deciding it was inappropriate to clear them out … well it would have cut across the mood a little … but it gave us a bit of a time constraint that night as we still had to finish by 1am … sound crew being

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Stuff I didMy main role is the performing arts team and our responsibility is to look after artists when they arrive on site and make sure that they have all they need for their shows … which was made slightly more difficult by the size of the site this year … needed to clone myself to be able to get from one side of the site to the other and be in two or three places at once … we agreed we need

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meeting up with Kendall Payne again and being able to hang out for most of the festival … eating breakfast together and meeting the guys from Rivertribe … still haven’t managed to hear them play but they were great company late at night and the start of each day … laughed so much … next job is to check out their websites ... kendall joining me for the debate on sex and loving how good she was ...

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A long silence usually means activity in real life and the past ten days has meant Greenbelt activity … it all passes in such a rush … so I thought I would just write some stuff down that are like fleeting images in my head … probably have to be in bits as I am trying to catch up with real lifeLet’s start with funny stuff … I will probably remember more but I have a head full of laughter … so

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very kind of liz to offer me her job ... leaving aside the fact that i know with no doubt that i am very unqualified for it ... it was a generous and unselfish act on her part until she posted again within the hour to point out that she would need to keep the wages ... so right back to square one then ... me doing volunteer work while everyone else gets to earn money ... i shall decline

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this week i am going to be working in the greenbelt officei have done a few days for them over the last few weeks but i decided they could do with the help this week ... the last week before everyone goes to site and it is chaos in the office ... chaos of the organised sort but with this slightly manic sense of the clock tickingit is quite weird this 'going to work' thing ... i have been musing

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Look it's not a plug as suchI just wanted to say something about thishttp://www.coldplay.comgoing here means you can see the new coldplay video for 'fix you'and in the first minute you see just behind him a sign pointing towards kings cross ... and the lyric and spiritual feel of this amazing song is just stunning ... and makes you think of all the hurt and how maybe god can just fix you ... them

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caroline said:don't you believe it sunshine... (gb that is) Dare I be the one that points out that ahem, actually, employment legislation is increasingly being applied to 'volunteer' jobs - cf. http://www.yourrights.org.uk/your-rights/chapters/rights-of-workers/claims/who-is-protected-by-employment-law.shtml and http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1463794,00.htmli hate to be a harbinger of

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greenbelt sweatshopdue to a slight error there was a bit of a mix up at the greenbelt office and on the spur of the moment i decided to offer assistance … monday and tuesday found me and a group of willing volunteers stuffing envelopes with tickets(made me realise that i never want to work in a factory)at one point i commented that here we were working underground (basement office) in a hot room

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London & the blitz spiritis it just me or does anyone else find all the media comment about londoners defience and our 'blitz spirit' a bit daft. What choice do most people have, they have bills to pay and daily jobs to turn up for, and for most the only way to travel is the tube or the bus. The fear that exists daily won't go away for a long time, there is nothing to say that just because these

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well i did it again ...too busy living to be bothered/have time to blog/remember to bloglondonwhat a week in the life of a city ... we were together and not in london on that day but the stress of waiting for a roll call of friends and family was unbearable stress ... thankfully as yet nobody we know was caught up in it ... lots of people checking on laura and eveybody rightfully assuming i would

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madonna did a blinding set ... stylish and strongrobbie was excellent a fantastic mixture of cocky showman and confident performerexcellent seeing stevie wonder performingliked razorlight hope it has the desired effect ... that has to be the biggest mass protest ever ... if they don't listen now maybe everyone who was at a Live8 concert or who watched should just agree to not vote them into power

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well yesterday was officially Coldplay day in our house basically that meant playing Coldplay music and getting very over excited at the prospect of seeing them later that day friends arriving late so delaying the going to the gig ... but other friends kindly keeping us seats in the stands ... watched support bands Morning Runner and Interpol ... nothing to write home about in fact i wouldn't

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well i have spent the evening getting people to the coldplay concert ... met one people carrier load and led them around the back streets to the stadium ... then ran my sister and her husband there (they are all from deepest southampton so they get lost in the big city) and they all came back for coffee ... i am going to tomorrow night but it was a bit weird taking people somewhere that i really

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241458622872958816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380781.post-1119794544201617332005-06-26T14:22:00.000+01:002005-06-26T15:02:24.223+01:00

now there's an idea ... just blog monthly with an updatebut then i guess it becomes like recent historyi currently lunge between stopping it altogether and fighting guilt pangs because i haven't bothered to write anthing at all ... then again it is my blog and i can do what i like with it ... maybe i should get everyone to sign up to an email list and i will notify them if i bother to write

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such long gaps on my blog and i don't know why really ... more to do with being busy and forgetting ... sure way to lose the few readers i had but the thing is i do just forget ... i usually remember when i am driving somewhere or just as i am about to fall asleepdone so much gardening in the last couple of weeks ... and let's just clear up that i am no alan titmarsh ... i rely on guess work,

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241458622872958816noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380781.post-1114528522939283572005-04-26T15:52:00.000+01:002005-04-26T16:17:12.833+01:00

sorry about that gap ... life just took over there for a couple of weeksam currently sat in an office covering for our administrator at acg while she takes a couple of weeks to lie on a beach ... hmm what is wrong with this picture?thanks for the message of congrats lillyand dave there is no way we would have a creche at our party ... can't see the missus agreeing to less champagne more

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241458622872958816noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380781.post-1113139867839936592005-04-10T13:57:00.000+01:002005-04-10T14:31:07.846+01:00

well we did a party ... got a new computer ... left a jobwell sometimes you have weeks like that doncha :)many thanks for the messages of congrats ... we do appreciate them ... apparantly we are becoming rare ... to those still standing we salute ... or something like thatwe had a fantastic party ... we decided awhile ago that we would host a party every five years ... family and friends didn't

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241458622872958816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380781.post-1112392498257360032005-04-01T22:40:00.000+01:002005-04-01T22:54:58.263+01:00

i suppose the big news is that this weekend we are celebrating 20 years of marriage ... i say marriage more a meeting of souls really ... just saying that we have been married for that long gets comment from people we meet1985 the year we got married ... Careless Whisper by George Michael ~We Built This City by Starship ~ Into The Groove by Madonna were all in the charts and of course it was the

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241458622872958816noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380781.post-1111488049310841582005-03-22T09:59:00.000Z2005-03-22T10:40:49.313Z

a few weeks have passednot really sure how that happens ... i do quite like blogging but once everything gets hectic it is the first thing to goi sometimes remember to read other people's entries ... which always leads me to the conclusion that others do more interesting stuff and write about it better than what i do ... and so the loop goeshave had three weeks of builders and one week of

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241458622872958816noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380781.post-1111485579659663302005-03-22T09:42:00.000Z2005-03-22T10:45:30.196Z

just realised that i have comments that i haven't even read let alone answered ... oops ... sorry ...dave and k ... i no longer have any involvement with s:vox (wanted to spend more time with the family ... musical differences etc) ... so i suggest you go to the website listed on the right at the bottom of my linkssally & liz ... a school governor ... ha ha ha ... i mean really can you see that

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241458622872958816noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380781.post-1109866810336873872005-03-03T15:59:00.000Z2005-03-03T16:20:10.343Z

The 5 questions game ... this is how it works ... someone sets me 5 questions and i answer them and then ask for 5 volunteers for me to set 5 questions for them ... they answer the questions on their blog and ask for 5 volunteers ... and so it goesLiz set me these 5 Questions ...If you could only keep one technological advancement from the past 10 years, which would it be and why? i think it will

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i just watched the latest episode of jamie's dinnersi was very moved ... it drives me crazy that as a nation we treat children like thislike jamie i don't think we should be feeding them restaurant food but we must be able to do better than what they are getting those burgers were disgusting ... they looked greyand i agree that we need to get them young ... i don't blame the kids it is probably

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