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If you think what happened yesterday was in any way excusable

Then you have nothing left in common with a human being. That is all.

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Skoda Octavia lock failure #1

Joy of joys, the front passenger door would not unlock on our 2012 Skoda Octavia. I’m mostly the only person who uses it so that didn’t seem such a major deal, but it turns out to be an MOT fail … Continue reading

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Another smelling pistake?

From the list of recall items for the Citroën C1…

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Surely they’d be on bicycles?

From the BBC News site.

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Pathetic delivery excuses #15,281

(Most of the first 15,000 are from drivers for Evri. Possibly the same one. 🙁 My wife just had a message that a parcel she was expecting from the South American river place could not be delivered because our drive … Continue reading

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What’s the worst that can happen?

Large bonfire (not mine, I hasten to add). 11kW overhead mains power lines…

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So spelling isn’t important?

Then who wants to risk eating one of these? Not me. Prehensile tongue, anyone? Or should that be prehensile tongs?

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National Grid “oops!”

Oh deary me. Does no-one use a proof-reader any more?

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Little more than 30 hours until the polling stations open

And for the first time ever, I shall be voting tactically this election. We’re in a new constituency because of boundary changes, but our previous MP is running in our constituency again. In years he’s done nothing for (most of) … Continue reading

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A month without a post?

Indeed so. It’s been somewhat busy. And not a little stressful. All down to the new job, but I’ll fill in some of the details as I go along and hopefully I can find the time to keep writing posts … Continue reading

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