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Bargain or rip-off?

I received an invoice yesterday for services I don’t remember being rendered:

So many places I could go with that, but I’ll try to stay restrained.
Crank-o-meter: confuzzled

A quick one with with care

Now that even holding a mobile phone in your hand while driving is a sin, it’s become remarkably thrilling, especially when there’s such easy quarry to photograph while waiting at lights. This advertising sign was plastered on the van in front of me.

Crank-o-meter: your laying had better be good

License to liqueur

I went to the second interview this morning to be eyeballed by the director. I wasn’t entirely amused that my meeting was at 9.00am and he hadn’t rocked up for work at that stage, so I was bored but harried that I had a job to return to and he hadn’t settled in or had [...]

Let’s see who’s butchering the English language today, shall we?

I went on a morning stroll/jog/run/walk/undignified crawl today to work off some Generally Undiagnosable and Irrational but Very Real Crankiness and wandered through a new industrial estate.
It’s all rather exciting looking at chunks of former farming land being reinvented into large sheds and marvelling how importing cherries from the USA, avocadoes from New Zealand [...]