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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 [...]

Christmas with Penny Miller

Every now and then, a stealthy catalogue distributor skulks the streets when people are at work and deposits the ‘Innovations’ home shopping junk mail on doorsteps. I’m fortunately still at the stage of life I don’t need a set of customisable bunion pads or a replica cuckoo clock so I leave the plastic wrapped [...]

I’ll take the bus, thanks

Management at Changi Airport is concerned about losing the title of world’s best airport to Hong Kong, and has a put new program in place to make it all better again.
It’s exactly what I’d do if I were in charge of an artificial environment filled with grumpy and jetlagged passengers who aren’t in the mood [...]

Does anyone like wind power?

The hounds failed in their duty to give early warning of a door-to-door salesperson yesterday and I ended up having to answer the door. They would have been sent to bed without dinner if they didn’t raid the bin anyway.
For once, the visitor was sent by the electricity company I use (I am still an [...]

Go away

I remember a Louise Hay book about self acceptance or thinking positively or some tricky life qualities I should study more, and she had a novel approach to paying bills received in the mail. Instead of cursing the greedy scoundrels for ripping her off blind, she would write and mail a cheque with gratitude for [...]