July 2006
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Blink
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf for several months now, however I hate hate hate myself for buying it when I did, when it was the ‘in’ thing to read (in some circles) and so I’ve been avoiding it. The really annoying thing is, of course, that it’s an…
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Dead Man's Chest
Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic It’s hard to be critical of a movie like this, a movie which is hugely tongue-in-cheek and which is the middle of a trilogy. As it happens this isn’t a bad movie, but I think it suffers from having to both live up to the mark set…
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My wee granny
The title is both literal and figurative. My Gran has been in hospital for the past couple of weeks. She was taken in after the carer, who turned up to make her her breakfast, found her lying in the hallway. She’d been there all night. She’s OK though. Nothing broken. Needless to say that gave…
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What's New?
This weekend we have mostly… Visited garden centres. Bought plants. Finished digging out the new bed in the side garden (photos will follow). Laid out new plants in side bed. Re-arranged plants in side bed. Went to visit my Gran in hospital (more on that later). Re-arranged plants in side bed. Re-arranged plants in side…
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25 lines
Inspired by Lisa and Rob, I’ve got a little quiz for you. It’s simple enough, 25 lyrics, guess the song and artist. I’ve used the “Party Shuffle” mode of iTunes to pull 25 random tracks from my library, so don’t blame me… entirely.. Ohh and it’s not always the first line of the song, some…
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An Oggy Oggy Pasty
A lot of blogs are filled to bursting with rants and moans about this company or that product. So today, by way of change, I thought I’d bring you a success story which, as the title suggests, is about The Oggy Oggy Pasty Company, specifically about their branch in Glasgow. Why? Because the staff are…