Friday morning. Police radios crackle. Officers mumble in hushed tones. Someone is screaming - one never-ending, hysterical, heart-rending wail of grief, devastation and disbelief. Residents look away numbly as the body of the latest statistic is taken away. One more heroin overdose. This one didn’t get away with it. To the media, he will be ‘another’ [...]
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.
I’ve had an attack of the crazies and gone through my archives taking out every real name that has appeared in my blog since the beginning of time (or, erm, May). Someone said something today that just freaked me out a little, so from [...]
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Creeeeeeeak.
I wake up and clutch the duvet in panic. Someone is in the house. The clock, glowing eerily in the dark, reads 3:07am. I suspect that’s what time it is. My heart thumping, I wait for the approaching footsteps of my killer.
Creeeeeeeak.
Oh, God, help, I plead silently. Silence. I tremble pathetically under the covers for [...]
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I’ve just been reading a blog which seems to have quite a large readership. It’s quite good. Entertaining, insightful, humorous in places. Apparently the guy has even landed a book deal from it. Impressive. Sense the approaching ‘however’.
However.
I find it incredible that someone who pretty much writes for a living has no working knowledge of [...]
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1. Coffee - genuinely, honestly, truly and sincerely - helps.
2. Friends are people who can make you laugh when it’s all going wrong, and celebrate with you when it’s going well. Good friends do both those things, but also step in and do something to take the pressure off when they see your head’s about to [...]
Filed under: Mishaps, cat, coffee, driving, friends, hedgehogs, laziness, overeating, sod's law | No Comments »
I don’t like to keep harping on about it, right, but the frog thing is really bothering me.
I check my blog stats page most days, and see things like how many people have visited the blog, what they’ve read, how they found me, and so on and so forth. One of the sections is entitled [...]
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I struggled from the car to my garden gate, with some shopping bags and various books in my arms, head lowered against the rain. As I tried to locate the front door key on my keyring, a figure brandishing a large stick rose menacingly from behind my garden wall. I jumped, startled, and almost dropped my bags [...]
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12.30am. I’m curled up on the sofa, where I’ve been for somewhere between 7 hours and a year, engrossed in the new Harry Potter book.
You still up?
The text is from Dirk. Dragged back to reality, I hear voices outside, and when I go to the door I am greeted by Dirk and Fisherboy, a sharp [...]
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I have just been to Eason, in the middle of the night, to purchase my pre-ordered copies of the new Harry Potter book.
In my defence, 3 copies were for some American friends who are currently somewhere over the Atlantic, on their way to Northern Ireland (and therefore completely enraged that the book was released at [...]
Filed under: Enid Blyton, Famous Five, Harry Potter, Kirrin Island, Mallory Towers, book release, children's books, escapism, literature | 2 Comments »
It’s the age-old question, isn’t it? The one that has stumped even the brightest scientific minds in the world, flummoxed generations (well, at least a couple), and proved itself to be the one unanswerable question in the universe.
Where do the missing socks go?
The problem up until now (are you sensing that I’ve had a breakthrough? [...]
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