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December 2008

Happy New Year…

the Christmas dinner shift went well - I shall write about it in more detail when my memories, like the food, have been digested! I shall try to write also about how it only feels like Christmas if family is subtracted. And how rare happy Christmas memories are for me. Anyone out there who survived it or accumulated happy memories - well done! With the New year will come the new blog - and this and the previous post be amalgamated and rewritten…. one other highlight to come in the new blog is hopefully I shall link and post to a homeless person with a blog, if they come and comment here… Now THAT impressed me!

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Coming Soon

I know it has been a while without a post. I have not been entirely idle so far as blogging goes though, I have taken a copy of my blog and upgraded it to Chyrp RC3. However there are a few things I still need to get fixed and working (like all the old post tags). I am persevering with that and I expect I shall get some support from the Chyrp community and overcome eventually. You will be sure to notice just as soon as I do, because then I shall move my changes over here to “go live” and the blog will be all shiny newness. One of the things I am hoping to change is to allow anonymous comments from guests (I was getting too many spam comments this way before). There should also be a blog search function. And generally a new look all round - I’ll probably review the sidebar too (though I intend to keep my blogroll and the books I am reading). At the same time as reviewing the technology I use I have also been mulling over that the…

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My celestial…

Last night I learned that it was not just any full moon on my birthday, but a rather special one. Unfortunately the weather did not play along with this and permit me to witness the event, there was unbroken cloud throughout the hours of darkness and some pretty awful weather to boot. Despite the weather I'm having a fine old time, it was worth making the effort to drive over to Redditch and stay with my friend. I brought all my discarded computer components in varying states of disrepair and by combining these with those he may have available the hope is that we come up with a working machine to take home for my daughter as a sort of Christmas present from him (he is her Godfather too). No doubt there may also be an excursion to te cinema tomorrow, I am hoping to escape "High School Musical 3" in favour of "Madagascar 2" or even "Desperaux", we shall see. Although I did not blog about it at the time I have been Carol singing for charity a couple of times with the Lewisham…

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Memories - A…

There's this restaurant in Primrose Hill and it is called "Manna". When I was a young boy I had to eat there a LOT. My abiding memory is of the glazed earthenware plates and the macrobiotic (IE unhusked) brown rice. I was totally convinced that the plates were chipping and I was eating the glaze along with the rice! It was a co-operative restaurant run largely by a hippy group of women so far as I could tell, but my father did spells as a "chef" there, hence the frequent occasions when I had to eat there. I think it left me with a prejudice against vegetarian food that I have only recently shed! There are good memories of those times too though and they all came flooding back when I had to traipse along Upper Street for a day of induction to the Christmas voluntary work I am doing with Quaker Homeless Action at the Union Chapel. I got talking with a colleague who lived in Camden also back in those days (they were in a squat, more recently than my forty…

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November 2008

Bad Sex awards…

As I near the end of my NaNoWriMo writing one of the things I might need for my ending is a sex scene (no, it is not gratuitous!), but I am no fool and do not underestimate the potential for a literary prat fall here. So perhaps you can imagine my interest when I read in the paper that it is that time of year and this award has been given again, this time to [[Rachel Johnson]]. You can read all about it on the Times Blog here. [[Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Awards]] were inaugurated back in the nineties and I think I may have made mention of them to someone on nano, or on a blog comment or something. So it was nice to join up the dots and find them splashed on the paper. I think they make for some hilarious reading, and literary greats are not imune from these shortcomings, John Updike was nominated four times (and I respect him greatly as a writer, perhaps all the more because he does not shy away from sex scenes in his writing). I hope this may have made one…

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My NaNoWriMo work…

Well, with November drawing to a close it seems I can indeed manage to write a work of literature that runs over fifty thousand words in a month. I am not going to pretend it is easy. I am definitely not entirely happy with the literary standard I have set (and what I have written is a rough first draft, not a polished text). BUT I seem to have very nearly done it. I'll admit to being a tiny bit proud of that. The about nanowrimo link on the right will take you to a site where the entire work is hosted, or you can click here if you wish. There are no comments allowed directly to the text there - so if you would like to say anything about it then please do feel free to comment on this post. I'm very open to any comments or criticism.

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My aim is true

Well good folks, something I did not tell you about earlier is one of Lithuania’s more renowned citizens. This was a man who made his mark in history, a man whom I feel commands respect, whose name lives on and probably inspires respect or even perhaps fear to this day. Who do I speak of? None other than Mikhail Kalashnikov, creator of the infamous AK-47 assault rifle, probably the most renowned firearm in the world today! I happen to regard it as part of a modern man’s “armoury” (pardon the pun) that he should have the skill of shooting. Naturally I long ago mastered the English shotgun, and many a fine pheasant I have enjoyed as a result. But the AK-47 is quite a different beast. I must admit to a certain fascination and I have hopes I shall lay my hands on one soon and experiment with my abilities and the weapon. Please do not misunderstand, I am a peaceful man and a gentleman. But I admire the machinery and functionality…

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From Matlock…

Goodness it is lovely here! I am really enjoying just the feeling of fresh air - no doubt with the excitement of the concert still to come. There will likely be libations to the Gods of music and choirs afterwards and that should be fun - I allready have plans to delegat my designated driver status away perhaps. We shall see what I can arrange. Over at my Chyrping blog you can see about my wifi troubles! I shall be returning to this blog post after the concert, sobriety permitting and insomnia facilitating. I am in a hotel lounge now and there is a conversation going on which I should join in - I shall publish and go and hope I can get some pics tomorrow (Google Arkwright mills and Matlock if you like for images). Actually i should have mentioned Alison Arkwright because we are staying in Alison House and it is superb! So beautiful here, like a complete rejujination for the senses. The venue for our singing was NOT inspiring, but…

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Greetings from…

Hello World! I am sure many of you reading this will know me , or know of me. I am Anton Ferhnzeit and of course with a name like that if you have met me you will not have forgotten me! But then, you would not forget me anyway, would you? I have such a lively, engaging, and frankly quite brilliant mind and such charm and wit combined with my devilish good looks. I know modesty does not become me, you would only detect the false misplaced sentiment behind it if you knew me. So - to those that know me - "Felicitations! You know what to expect and can enjoy my presence in the Blogosphere just as you have in my more mundane, everyday circles" And to those that do not "Greetings! You have come to the right place to be stimulated and amused! I intend to lift the quality of the blogosphere to new heights" How much further should I introduce myself - well I have given this some thought. A picture could be misleading and make you judge me to be vain…

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Excited to write…

This post will be brief, because the writing I am excited about is not blog posting, but more a little light coding and then NaNoWriMo (or nano as I sometimes call it for short). The coding part is putting the finishing touches to this new "blog" site I have set up for my book! (I want to remove or lighten the sidebar for easier reading). I know one person who will be thrilled to see this appear at least. But what confuses the bejeezus out of me is why I am excited about it?! …more

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The plot thickens

This morning the reason my NaNo word count jumped is I finally managed to thrash out some sort of a plot outline with a few sketchy details. In the process I realised where I planned to intersperse some of the blog posts that fit into the book. This is where it gets interesting... It occured to me that in addition to the main character(s) blogging or emailing I would also involve some comments from the blog. So dear readers this means that in future you too could become part of my NaNoWriMo novel! I have not thought it through - perhaps I have to add an "About Nano" page with all sorts of disclaimers that I retain rights to use comments... I am not sure if that is required, have to look into it if I have time. Of course no comments may come - then I shall have to create my own log ons and make "faked" ones! Oh what a tangled web we weave! I had to dash then to practice the Elgar - on returning I descended into many matters geeky (reformatting…

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Displacement…

OK well, so I sang the Verdi and that was great fun. The best part is that unlike the first time where I went through months of weekly practices learning the piece and practicing (along with some singing lessons as I was new to singing then) this time it was one rehearsal a week in advance, then a rehearsal in the morning and sing my heart out for the concert in the evening! What fun! My stepmother says I am getting a "repertoire" and I tell her that is pretentious nonsense! But it is lovely to get the chance to sing something you enjoyed again. That recording is from a personal MP3 player with on board mic that I slipped in my pocket at the last minute - highly experimental and I am amazed I got ANYTHING! There were mics all over and I'll probably HAVE TO buy a couple of CD's for family and friends (they'd kill me if I didn't). But all of this is displacement writing! I am MEANT to be making a start on my novel writing month! You would not…

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October 2008

A little light…

Has it really just been a week since I last made a “religious” post?, It seems so. This is quite a time of change, and the clocks moving from BST to GMT accentuates that to me. But I want to share a couple of aphorisms and a context that gives them a more serious context. So again this will be one of the more (gently) didactic posts. ===================================== To start with the light side - two jokes:- What do you get if you cross a Druid with a Bhuddist? a. Someone who hugs trees that are not there. ———————————————————————- There is a Bhuddist monk on vacation in New York, He goes up to a Hot Dog vendor and says, “Make me one with everything”. ———————————————————&mdash…

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A little light…

Yes, maybe that is a touch tautological, maybe antonymic (bit of a contradiction in terms) but then that depends on where you are coming from spiritually. For many faiths light and religion go hand in glove anyway. In any case, it's Sunday and I'd like to try to lift my head above the domestic disharmony that overshadowed the weekend (nothing serious, just seven year old tantrums and stuff) so for better or worse here is my stab at a post aimed in a vaguely spiritual direction. A little while ago I "dugg" this article which I somehow googled towards (Disclaimer; that is not my newspaper of choice, and I have no recollection how I chanced on the article). It prompted me to muse a little on human nature and how Religion and society interact. I'm participating in a series of Sunday sessions entitled "twelve [[Quakers]] and..." which tonight is dealing with "... and God". No doubt that played a part in my looking into the article. Quakers often have issues…

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Fiction Friday…

The bottle had been on display for a long time. Before that the bottle had spent even longer languishing in a dark cellar far away, gathering dust and allowing its contents to complete their final fermentation. Now the bottle was at last selected proudly by the self-styled 'Wine Wizard' and lovingly rolled on the counter, wrapping it within a cocoon of tissue. "I think you'll be happy with your choice sir", said the Wine Wizard with a satisfied smile. "I'm sure you're right, after all it is for a special occasion" answered Jeremy, offering his credit card to complete the transaction. He would not normally be so extravagant, but it was their anniversary and he longed to please Sarah, particularly since she has invited family for dinner this evening. When he asked for several bottles the Wine Wizards proprietor had assured him it was not pretentious to serve a magnum sized bottle and that in fact it was quite practical since one only had one bottle to open and…

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Blaming Poverty on…

Give us your deprived, your malleable muddled masses hoping for a gentler taskmaster Welcome to the multi-trillion dollar industry, Poverty A.K.A, cheapest labor force Poverty works, never ever unemployed A much needed commodity to justify White-collar crime classes Teaching dastardly deeds—to procure monetary needs- fostering avarice greed Give us your deprived, your malleable muddled masses hoping for a gentler taskmaster Welcome to the multi-trillion dollar industry, Poverty A.K.A., cheapest labor force Poverty creates jobs for those financing the societal Institution of ya godda pay more taxes Blaming Poverty on the poor Look! what Enron did to those less fortunate Blaming Poverty on the poor Did not corporations want a billion dollar welfare check Blaming Poverty on the poor Blaming Poverty on the poor Give us your deprived, your malleable muddled masses …

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Fiction Friday post

I was just notified of something called "Fiction Friday" via my Write Anything feed. So I thought I would spare five or ten minutes and see what I came up with to participate. The results are below, and I have abided by the rules they are just as I wrote them. I'll reread it sometime whan and if I get any comments. Alice tried to remember who had given her the key but as she felt the smoothly worn edge and the smooth leather fob against her palm she was reassured by the weight of it. Depressing the button at the other end of the key and activating the wireless signal the thrill ran through her in seeming reponse to the signal as she saw the yellow blinking that signalled to her which car unlocked. She approached the gleaming yellow sports car with a sense of mounting excitement, although she was in her thirty second year she had never driven any kind of performance car before. But here before her, crouching like an animal ready to pounce, was a…

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Work, friends, and…

Today was undeniably a good day. After taking my daughter to school and almost being late on account of a missing school jumper which was discovered at the eleventh hour to have been discarded under the hand brake the previous afternoon I meandered along to do a little work. When I say work, this is not what you could call employment. Once a week or so I help out a retired gentleman who is coming to grips with a laptop, email, and the internet. He has made great strides and when I arrived was grappling with the BBC's radio "listen again" service. I had thought this would be of interest to him earlier, so it was nice to see he had found the facility for himself. A shame only one of the programs he wanted seemed to be available, we had to report the other missing. On getting home I was getting ready to cycle over to Islington for a lunch with Marmite Lover, when I took a 'phone call. I thought it would be a friend calling me back, but it turned…

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Historic things to…

things to blog about:- toggle sidebar blog ides - chyrp? BUGLIFE German architecture - cf gaudi Liz Williams Humans will not evolve further tag maelstrom possessive girlfriends three strikes and you're in (my blogroll) hrabbit quote (extract kids) - bash.org (to links) Site "Easter eggs" (CF XFN friendly tag on blogroll) libraries - Indie online 9/10 thought for the day 8/10 - "forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors" (CF - fRA blog post) Orange prize and gender bias in publishing (CF blogging) poetryiamwriting site idea Google cautionary tale - Edith! Ephemera (poem) - scattered poem linkage... Chomosomal inheritance (boys like mother, girls like father) procrastination versus reward out of work flavours of blog process of writing (Esp. preparation VIZ NaNoWriMo) http://www.juliettepochin.com/ Parenting and benefit and me New Deal - parenting thing, highly political, outsourcing - not 10% but 40% Childrens time perception and heartbeat etc cybersex stuff - http…

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Thoughts on being…

Why the quotes, you may ask? Well, I have been thinking that writing a blog is a little similar to zero-cost vanity pubishing. A large part of the impetus for me to start blogging came from a desire to have some sort of motivation for me to write. I plan to participate in [[NaNoWriMo]] and am hoping that after November I shall continue to write. One of my poems (albeit a piece of [[doggerel]]) has already appeared in my blog. I have addd a number of links to writers resources to my links page and several on my blogroll are there in connection with writing. But despite all of that my feelings about being published are ambivalent and contradictory. I will openly admit that I pretty much detest J.K. Rowling. She and Jodi Piccoult might make good examples to typify publication that I feel sense of dismay rather than any cause for celebration. I do not see them as role model authors, though many would (presumably their agents especially…

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Publication musings

I came across this post from Belletristic Blogette and it got me thinking. I am proposing to do a great deal of writing in the rest of this year, but how do I feel about publication and what are my motives and expectations. I have recently gathered that writers seeking publication are supposed to cultivate "a platform" - perhaps my blog will become that? Something to bear in mind for the future...

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Is it a blog…

No, I think not. I think then it turns into a [[tumblelog]] or a [[stumbleupon]] or something. So despite the late hour I shall pen a few words. Today I think, fingers crossed, I have got the blogroll sorted, after more hours than I care to mention tinkering with the php. It was a simple change, but took me an age. Anyway, now I can order my blogroll as I choose and hopefully that will be the last we hear on the matter. I seems to have my personal email is available to me again… But I seem to have to use Thunderbird to access it. Which is no bad thing. It is a mystery what caused the blip, but I suspect the DNS changes which gave my blog quite a blip too. Below you will see there has been a bit of a media explosion. I got my mobile lead and a webcam back, so was able to upload the pics I mentioned from the carnival and capture my awful [Wordia] candidate entry for the word didactic. The site seems to have some sort of…

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Posting from a…

Right now I am in Castle Carey for the Childrens carnival later today. I shall try to get pictures onto my phone for later… it could be quite visually pleasing if the rain keeps off! This goes to show the blog addiction has hit hard, even though this offers a lovely quiet respite from the inevitable family drama as a bonus! I brought my laptop, but to hope for wireless access was expecting too much (it is pretty much a small rural town). Anyway, with the country air I arose early. My father is quite the eccentric (you can see him and some of his poems from the "about me" link if you click on far enough and he has been moved to more traditional housing than his old beach hut on wheels!). So in his new abode he insists that visitors leave something in a Visitors Book provided for the purpose. Arising early I found this book and the muse struck. Occasionally I may feature a poem in my Blog. BUT I am determined that it should not become exclusively a poetry nor exclusively a…

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Spam wonderful spam

OK so I just got my first comment spam.,... sort of makes me want to hide my blog under a frigging great bushel! There's a positive side to everything though - and in this case it made me reread my first ever blog entry and particularly the closing remark... which was actually linked to this idea. Now please bear with me, because what I should ideally like to do is take the concept to a whole new level.. in an ideal world I would like to promote people using words like obfuscate and defenestrate (someone should throw that word out the window, it's hardly ever useful!) into some other league at the same time as banning people who use any form of textual contraction (I refuse to say tee ex tee talk!). So we form a new dictionary to assess literary intellectual achievement and build a meritocracy from it.. but how do we keep the scrabble players and chimpanzees out? I need to think more.... NO I need to think less... Oh I am not sure... I'll be offline at the…

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Wench: Endearment or Insult? Hill Avenue County Primary School Unofficial School Song 1970 (To the tune of Oh My Darling Clementine) Build a bonfire, build a bonfire Put the teachers on the top Put the wenches1 on the bottom And burn the blum'in2 lot. With gusto or 'bloody' if feeling particularly brave and grown up Here at Yampy we are planning to introduce pages specific to our male and female visitors respectively. Question - could we, following the example of many a Black Country Pub loo sign, call the sections 'Chaps' and 'Wenches'? The problem is the 'wench' word. To many locals it has always simply meant 'girl', and is just as likely to be used by a woman as a man. On the Black Country Bugle's home page for example, the writer calls herself a true Black Country wench. However, outside the West Midlands the word has had several connotations, including: A girl or (young) woman The same, but probably of low, peasant, or servant status A 'wanton woman' A black woman (U.S.) The…

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My site of the day…

*sigh* well this WAS going to be a more exciting post than it is turning out... You see I heard of this innovative new dictionary site from the Indie today, which in it's online incarnation seems to be throwing out early editions with 'net related news stories a lot these days. Anyway, the concept is a simple but sort of fun one. People make short clips offering the definition for a word. Of course I had to go and check for Didactic (going to put definition in the banner when I get around to it by the way) and lo and behold, no one had done it yet. So, the plan was that I might record same on my webcam (and no doubt make a cheeky plug for the blog in closing).... But three hours later and WILL my laptop mic record, NO it will not! Most frustrating! I'll try to keep an eye out if a definition DOES crop up, might still be worth a link in the blog, but for the moment no video post (though I may browse the site a bit and there's still a chance I'll post…

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September 2008

Blogging…

I'm thinking of the Kevin Costner movie "Field of Dreams" at the moment, maybe every blogger has that feeling, it is like "build it and they will come" but I know I shall not always make a post that especially entertains with a particular attitude. At least not so far as I can tell, but then I probably get easily bored by myself. I've wondered idly from time to time if a blog could be any aid to my finding employment. But when I tried googling to find any evidence for that it seems far more likely that a blog will result in you being fired than it will in you being hired! One of the top hits seems to be the M$ employee who took pictures of Apple G5's being shipped into M$ buildings and posted them to his blog (he was fired). The other thing I've already mentioned toying with is adding to the blog something indicating the book I am reading. Once I looked a little further into that it seems it is a heavily mined area of blogging already. It is one instance…

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A celebrity of sorts

I know that a post or two back I said I would be mentioning celebrity, so I'd better elaborate. I can remember a classmate from school who was always making jokes and generally being something of a comedian. So somehow it came as no surprise when I more recently started to hear him on the radio. At school he had a longer name than the one he uses now that he has achieved minor celebrity status. Anyway he now goes by the name of "Tony Hawks" and what surprises me is that he seems pretty much just the same as I remember him from schooldays all those years ago. I wonder how common that experience is? I have to admit to finding it a little depressing sometimes, it makes me think we are to a very large extent defined in our early years and from then onwards we only expand in other areas somehow. But perhaps it is not necessarily so? I have of course been fiddling with things I can do on this blog, and as well as video links I can upload audio…

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Things to Blog about from 2009 on; Equality - spiritual and book choices? Vocab?) The Princess Bride Mount TBR (list and/or count) Tale of Two cities (Urban17 and new book groups) Libraries (27th Jan, user group?) Hamish Henderson (poet) Write about the Robber Bride (Atwood) and mention cited for "man hating" in OED - "1993 M. ATWOOD Robber Bride xlv. 348 He thinks they're a bunch of man-hating hairy-legged whip-toting feminists."

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So, here I am…

This posted despite; Fatal error: Call to a member function title() on a non-object in /home/wrighton/public_html/didactic.me/chyrp_2.0rc1/includes/helpers.php on line 656 So it seems I have (maybe?!) set up the necessaries to blog. I always feel like writing "Trent settled nervously into his seat..." at moments like this, but I am not sure many people will necessarily "get" the reference, nor am I prepared just yet to go off hunting out the relevant Youtube clip assuming it can even be found. I hope my blog will hit moments of being truly interesting or entertaining, but as to whether any entry is likely to be truly Didactic I have my doubts. So the domain name I purchased was largely tongue in cheek - I spent several days mulling over what might make sense for a Blog domain name, and when I saw this was free I sort of jumped on it. No doubt that says something about me, but what I am not sure. I suspect a more suitable name could have been "eclectic.me", but it does not have the…

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June 2008

Just A Toothbrush…

| Jun 17 OK - this was pukeworthy the first time - but it seems to be resurfacing for further attention whoring. If you see in my comment I am inviting Haiku to take the ironic P**s out of this remorselessly - I shall edit some in here myself... soon....You're a pink oneMy toothbrush is greenishI puked on itToothbrush stands thereremorselessly gouging eyes outfrom sentmental skullIn response to Just A Toothbrush... by silkgoddess4u: Just A Toothbrush...This morning I ran into his toothbrush.It was hiding behind the Med's.Oh! I remember so well, watching himbrush his teeth from my bed.Then he would kiss me good-bye andrush out the door.Oh! The toothbrush is still near.though he is far away.Just a toothbrush tugging at my heart.Bringing back memories of happier days.I remember throwing out this toothbrushso many times, Or did I?This time I will be strong.This time I will take it to the dumpster.I will not let this toothbrush make me cry.I will not let it come…

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February 2008

Shucks - no…

| Feb 29 Hey hoanother leap year, another leap day alone.... Sounds maudlin but I am far from that, happier than I have been in ages and been "getting a lot done" at this end. If they are the right things, who knows, but still makes me feel good whatever it is.I hear on the radio that some 15,000 women will apparently be bold enough to make a proposal today and if one work out the statistics on this that means that I believe about 50 will be proposing to another on their birthdays as well!Now I had a daughter by a woman whose birthday falls today, but she never went that far and I had to get on bended knee myself (only to be refused....)I'll be very interested in any comments or tales folks might have to tell for themselves on this subject.... I wonder how many people have to read my journal for one of them to be a woman who has proposed on a leap day? I bet at least one woman who reads this has at least made a proposal though... Then again there are "lies, damned lies, and…

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January 2008

Feeling better…

| Jan 14 well hello dear diary or random OKC readers (I really am unsure there are any these days!)...Thought I should make a note on a little positivity from the weekend (I have a vague recollection of some sort of promise about my next entry and doing something - but I cannot remember what it was and only very rarely read my own entries!).Anyway, I had a visitor to stay and go see the Pop Art exhibition on at the National Portrait Gallery. I am not exactly hous proud, partly because I realy do not like this place but cannot move out until I have work as it would mess up the housing benefit situation. But anyway if I have a visitor it changes everything and I want to do my best, so I spent the whole day of their arrival int he evening on housework, cleaning, shopping, laundry and other preparations. Little did I realise but this was actually mildly enjoyable and highly therapeutic.Even better therapy was havign them around for the weekend and I was able to discover that…

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