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January 5th, 2008
06:21 pm - The Midsummer's Night Ball
I would like to announce the Midsummer's Night ball to be held in Salisbury June 20th 2008
The details are available here:
Tickets are available to order, but there will be a 1-2 week delay in delivery as we are currently having them printed.
Hope to see you there!!
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November 26th, 2007
05:21 pm - You have to love the french
I thought this whole concept was wonderful!!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2217067,00.html
Especially that they were not even noticed in over a year of doing this!!
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November 16th, 2007
12:49 pm - Sports for the girls
Have to admit - it looks quite interesting
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7096653.stm
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November 1st, 2007
10:56 am - Are ghosts covered by the health and safety at work act??
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7072188.stm
You're digging up a plague pit and a communual grave - what exactly do you expect??
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October 19th, 2007
09:25 am - In sickness and in health...
Well in sickness this week mostly.
Colds should not make you feel this bad. Normally a heavy dose of sudafed and some paracetamol and I can atleast function - with enough caffine anyway.
Had a day off sick last week, but then tried to struggle on, now I had to take yesterday off and today :( I hate having to take time off work. Part of it comes form being a contractor in the past - no sick pay - but I also really enjoy this job and feels like I'm letting them down.
Plus in those days I did struggle in I think I managed to infect the rest of the office...
Well fingers crossed it will be cleared up over the weekend, got a docs appointment in an hour since I suspect its gone into my sinuses and antibiotics will be required :( no drinking next week then.
I certainly do want to be recovered in time for the halloween party!!!
In other news finally got around to replcing the case and powersupply on my old computer - the cheap case I had it in before needed so many fans to keep it cool it sounded like a jet engine. But my ailing firewall, a pentium 150 laptop, needs replacing and if that desktop is to become an always on server it needs to be quiet. So one antec p182 case later and all is well... except for the dvd drive I replaced. It didn't come with a SATA cable and since I was replacing an old style IDE drive I don't have one here. So here I am, off sick, nothing to do and I can't even work on reinstalling this PC because I lack a cable and am certainly not up to a cycle to PC World to pick up a replacement :( this sucks!
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October 13th, 2007
11:45 pm - Thought for the day
The only rights you can have in life are the right to choose, and the right to take the consequences and without accepting the latter, you never truly have the former.
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October 2nd, 2007
12:21 pm - Parents beware
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October 1st, 2007
12:53 pm - A very naughty pumpkin....
( NSFW )
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September 25th, 2007
12:01 pm - On your bike!
I got my bike back!!
Finally!!
Wheel all repaired even though it did take them 2 weeks, they also replaced the inner tube that they fitted with the right one (had the wrong fitting on the top originally)
And they didn't charge me without there even being an argument about it.
Its nice when companies do fix their mistakes without too much hassel
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09:36 am - Gothic cake tins!
http://www.decuisine.co.uk/cookshop/bakeware/bakeware_for_cakes.html?id=d8fa6a1d7c61fa608942839950fff031.1190708548
Well one gothic one but the rest are pretty cool to :)
However Friday's cake is going to be a train - specifically James
Pictures will no doubt follow
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November 14th, 2006
06:02 pm - concerning....
Ok thats a little odd
I could have sworn I posted on here yesterday but it seems to have vanished....
Probably no major loss since I can't actually remember what I posted...
Gradually settlign in here still - really missing jareth during the week but I do have very sweet phone calls with him each morning
Last weekend we were all rather ill however was still quite pleasant as there were no arguments with Rose - definitely bodes well for us being able to keep this arrangement going.
Still trying to find a place to stay for after the VC xmas party... may end up in a hotel just have to see how it goes
time to wind down now I think - been a long day today
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November 8th, 2006
09:01 pm - news n stuff
Ok so I'm crap at subject headings.... never mind
shock fact: heineken in holland actually tastes really nice - its not knats piss over here!!
I do however have a dilema - one that I think is easily solved though
Its the goth event over here on friday the 8th, and the VC xmas part on the 9th - I know I can only make one but which?
I was planning for the former but I saw the latter posted on morbidfrogs lj yesterday so I think I'll be changing my plans and go to the VC - loads of people I haven't been able to see in ages.
so the question becomes does anyone have a spare bed/sofa/patch of floor I could borrow on that night? Beer is offered in return ;)
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October 26th, 2006
08:53 pm - VC halloween party - anyone got a sofa spare? ;)
Hi all
just wonder if anyone going to the VC halloween party has a spare sofa I could crash on?
My last train home is at 11:35 from water loo which would mean I'd have o leave the party at 11 which I dont really fancy (nor think I would remember to do!!)
Would be mre than happy to return the favour in amsterdam sometime ;)
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October 4th, 2006
09:51 am - I got the job!!
Woot!!
They want me to start asap, I've handed in my notice so will be started by 1st november definitely but I'm hoping my current place will let me go sooner - I think its quite likely to be honest.
They didn't offer me quite as high as I would have liked, but its still double my current salary and overtime is available!
I'll be in a b&b for the first few days unitl I get a short term rental on an appartment - however given the way their tax laws work there I want to buy a place as soon as I'm settled in the job as morgage interest is tax deducatable - given the top end tax bracket is 52% that makes a huge difference!
Once I'm atleast renting a place though if anyone fancies a trip to amsterdam then give me a yell and I can put you up ;)
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July 17th, 2006
11:31 am - the plague
I see to be coming down with a cold, not to mention that swimming yesterday with jareth has given me what is probably going to be a nasty ear infection....
joy of joys....
Back home tonight - Rose has gardening she needs to do and I have wine I need to bottle plus beer to start a new batch of... one problem though I'm nearly out of sterilising powder!!
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June 23rd, 2006
11:57 pm - Beer!!!
To log my efforts in beer and wine making I have decided to start my own little wiki
http://brewing.tinhinan.net
Its only editable by me right now - which I know partially defeats the point of wiki's but I'll probably make a public sub wiki in both the beer and wine (doesn't exist yet) wiki's in the next week or so
Also need to work on the appearance - its just the default right now which is rather dull
Right bedtime - I'm knackered!!!
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June 19th, 2006
10:20 am - Tatoos in the workplace
See this article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5079470.stm
I just wish a blog or contact address had been given as I'd love to send her a note of support!! Good for her!!
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June 5th, 2006
10:10 am - Happy Birthday!!
Happy Brith dat ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) flannelcat
Many apologies that we didn't realise yesterday!! Would have brought you a cake!!!!
(only found out this morning when I saw uberredfraggle's lj entry!
Have a great day ;) Enjoy the beer!
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June 1st, 2006
11:04 am - Kenyan rape law
Reading the bbc artical here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5036398.stm
I certainly agree with the complaint that marital rape is still rape - even if they are asleep!!!!
The point of contention I find interesting though is that false acusation of rape is a crime equal to rape under their new new. One of the womens rights groups argues that the ordeal of rape isn't about sex. I assume from that they mean the life time effects of humiliation, fear, trauma things that will stay with the woman forever.
But then flase accusation has much the same points. Even if it goes to court and they ar aqquited, some people will never recover from the acusation, it can ruin career, marriages, self esteem, cause humilation and lifetime trauma.
Much the same as rape really....
I'm not sure I'd go quite as far as saying the sentence should be equal - but that false accusation is up to 50% length sentence as the rape I can see and agree with.
The only problem comes when you consider the practicalities.... many women are too afraid or embarrassed to come forward after being raped... most rapists will deny the claim, rape conviction rates are very low in the uk. Setting false accusations at such a severe penalty could discourage victims of rape to come forward.
But then how do you discourage actual false accusations? What about the victims of those? I personally know one guy that lost his job as a teacher, and being on the sex offenders register can never teach again, lost his house, went bankrupt though not being able to work and basically had his life ruined. Why? because he told a girl in the high school to tuck her shirt in. She then decided to claim he groped her - much much later admitted she was lying but by then it was too late, the damage had been done.
Its a tricky problem and I'm not really sure I can suggest a solution that would work well after you add humans to the equation
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10:14 am - better now - caffine is good stuff
Ok I've had 2 cups of tea now and things are calmer
Still cancelling plans for tonight but am going tomorrow and probably something else next week so all is good.
Guess lack of sleep and caffine is making me cranky in the morning
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