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The Pound Coin of Doom!

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My mood has been as black as it comes today with wave after wave of bad news grinding me down. One of my grievances is a battered pound coin has ironically managed to cause £135 worth of damage. My house manager, a gruesome Italian man who looks slightly like The Penguin, has been waddling in and out of my flat for days trying to establish why the washing machine is Kaput! Finally an engineer was called who discovered the errant coinage and issued a bill of biblical proportions for his heroic work. In addition to this excessive billing he scrawled some advice on the invoice suggesting we don’t overload the socket in the washer room… Oh thanks – is that how the pound coin got stuck? We overloaded the socket! Thanks, Einstein! Practically, invaluable advice aside I’m still utterly hung up on the fact that as soon as I have the vague sniff of some extra money in one nostril I have an epic cash nosebleed out the other. Maybe I’m over reacting and maybe I should just junk up on some leve

Surprise news!

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Sleepy bank holiday Monday, nothing much going on besides a mafia movie marathon and some White chocolate covered strawberries and then Whammo!!! A text from up north. A text from my brother. A text telling me... He's engaged! Let's leave a line here and think about this. And another one. I was genuinely shocked. I don't wanna go all Carrie Bradshaw so soon into my new venture as a blogger but I did wonder... Is 40 the moment when it really all starts? It reminded me of a question I was asked recently, 'do you included you acting jobs on you proper cv?' As a matter of fact I do, and here's why... I dont want to give the impression I popped into the world fully formed and ready to work in an office. Prior to office drudgery I was not in vitro. I was a person with aims, ambitions and dreams. Now back to my groom to be sibling. He hit 40 and BANG! he barely blows out the candles and he's down on one knee. Did he know all along 40 was the magic number

From Cave art to Spell Correct in 6000 years!

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Since humans first scrawled images of antelopes on the walls of caves we have had a proper stiffy for communication. Back then they couldn't get enough of it! No longer did you have to memorise and sing some story about how 'Clud and Thump' defeated a Mammoth. Now you could write it down, illustrate it and retain every gory detail for generations. Suddenly 'Clud and Thump' were literary characters, comic book heroes or mythical legends. Jump forward around 6000 years and I have decided that I too want in on the act. It is no longer enough that I spend my days writing emails of the highest grammatical standards - I now wish to extend this linguistic prowess to the world of Blogging. (If only I had something worth writing about... Oh, well I'm sure it'll come). I was Inspired, in no small way, by the frantic keyboard lashings of a certain Japan based blogger, a woman who has been dedicated to recording her weekly misfortunes and mishaps with a dry-as-dus