February 2012
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“T’weren’t like this during the war”, Mabel quipped, setting the teabags down again. She shuffled over to the off-license, audibly rustling as she gripped her packet of Skips tighter than even her grasp on reality. A confused young man tied her dog to the shop’s security gate, having removed the leash from his bike spokes as he went to leave for home. Mabel looked...
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Dorothy’s coffee cup trembled now, and her vein appeared as her brow furrowed. “How dare she call me ma’am… I’m forty two!”. She steadied herself as she stood up, plotted her course to the ensuite and made herself sick. Untying her hair and wiping her mouth on the pink guest towels - happy now - she decided to book a table for herself somewhere in the city....
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It was a warm Summer’s day in some beautifully expensive part of Dublin, and Danii and Frederick had just finished having sandy sex on a secluded part of a spotless beach. “Would you like another watercress sandwich, Danii?”, Fred queried. “No, I am leaving you”, came her indifferent reply. “Miriam has heart cancer, and now so does our relationship”. The...
Right now I am in the process of creating a new Facebook profile for myself, because I’ve been bitten by Timeline. I have been on Facebook for about 5 years and it is too much to go through every post and hide or disguise or delete anything I see that I don’t want to be in my present life. When I started on Facebook it was a mess. It’s grown up along with me, but I don’t go...
Does anybody out there know of any video editing software that is better than Windows Movie Maker and lasts longer than VideoPad? If you help, you will get to see a nice video in 11 months time. Anyone?
Beth was there to meet me at Aachen Hauptbahnhof, and no sooner had I got off the train than I was on a bus apparently headed to Heerlen, The Netherlands. I handed the driver a €20 note because I didn’t have any change, and he took pleasure in giving me about €15 back in €2 coins. Which is his right. I didn’t mind though because I like €2 coins. We were going to the nearest IKEA, which...
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I have now been to The Netherlands. Story to come.