Karen and I arrived back from the Lake District yesterday. I’ve made a photo diary for you to peruse.
There are 32 images, and the whole thing weighs about 3MB.
To begin, click here.
Author: pete
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Hoover-whelming
I just vacuum’d up one of Karen’s stockings.
I was doing man-hoovering. In order to save time and energy, I avoided the need to move things (shoes, clothes etc) out of the way by just pushing them to the edge of the room with the snout of the vacuum cleaner as I progressed.
However, some things evidently don’t get pushed by an assertive appliance, but prefer to give in to its powerful wiles, spreading their arms and allowing themselves to be smothered in its awesome bulk, feeling the erotic powerlessness of submission to their mighty Master.
Wow. Arousing stuff.
I delicately extracted the stocking from the mouth of the beast, and it seems to be in one piece, though a little dusty.
Let’s see how soon she notices.
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Gymgoing
I’ll pop down to the gym,
To do my exercise,
I aim to help my biceps,
Achieve a larger size.
But a man upon the chest press,
Warrants more inspection,
He isn’t doing exercise,
But reading the Arts section!
Piss off, you utter tit,
Your behaviour is obscene,
Can’t you read the notices?
Rest away from the machine!
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Advice from a friend
I asked this question:
Do you periodically find yourself being haunted by memories of embarrassing things from years past? Even if you know that you are never again going to meet the other parties in question, you still find yourself biting your fist and disbelieving how you could be so stupid?
Well, I do. Most of them don’t bother me that much, but there’s one that still worries me to this day, possibly because it only happened a couple of years ago. I’m wondering whether I should go out seeking closure, or if it will just makes things worse, and I am better off just getting on with my life until one day it doesn’t bother me because it happened five or ten years ago. What do you think?
Friend says:
We-ell, it depends on how serious a faux pas it was? I often find myself thinking back to things I’ve done that make me feel queasy with embarrassment but swiftly put it down to experience, safe in the knowledge that it’s all helped to shape me into the thoroughly nice bloke I am today.
I can’t believe for a second that the man who ran through the sprinklers in the park in just his pants finds anything embarrassing anymore.
*chuckles to himself inanely*
*for some time…*
Well done, sir.
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Insurance Salesman
I just had an unsolicited call to my mobile. Some guy trying to sell handset insurance. He said: “I understand that you pay £7.99 per month for insurance?”
I said: “No, I cancelled it.”
He said: “Ah, well, I’d like to make you a better offer?”
“Better than £0 per month?” I said.
“Haha, ” he said, “Yes, that would be a good offer, wouldn’t it?”
“Yes, ” I said. “Yes, it would.”
“Anyway, ” he said, “I shall tell you of my offer.”
“Seriously, is it a better offer than my current deal?” I asked. “Because if it is, then I’m all ears.”
He paused, and then thanked me for my time.
I shot a little badger,
With a long elastic band,
I spied it with my little eye,
And aimed with my right hand.
The badger took off, like a shot,
Raced along the grass,
And all because I shot it,
In it’s furry little ass.
I found some little fairies,
On my lawn the other day,
But when I tried to talk to them,
They all just flew away.
So I took a pot of glue,
And made a sticky pool,
So now I am much happier,
Cos my garden’s always full.
*And the pencil was sharpen’d,
Sharp it was.
Like a spear
Piercing the snowy white paper.
It’s sharpness making mortals quake,
And grown men cry.
And badgers were overcome,
With terr’ble, terr’ble
Fear.*
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Drawering To A Close
*WARNING: this post is quite long, having a goat-slayingly impressive 700 words. This equates to roughly 0.3 londonmarks.*
My desk at work has two drawers. The top one is quite shallow, and the bottom one is deep.
The bottom drawer is not of much use to me, as it is full of boxes that used to contain wireless network access points, PCMCIA network cards and suchlike. At some point I will throw all these out of the window, but in the meantime, I have to fit my stash of flapjacks into the top drawer.
This top drawer can get a little untidy, so today I decided that it was time to take everything out, and put it back in, observing a more refined packing algorithm in order to optimise the usage of the space available.
Gingerly I placed my mobile phone, the fascia for my car stereo, my flapjack stash etc into the drawer, all neat and perpendicular with 1cm padding between them all. And I was reminded, for the first time in years, of the magical mystical astronomical phenomenon that was my bedside cabinet at my parents’ house.
My old bedroom was converted to a study some time ago, but a lot of the furniture remains. The bedside cabinet and wardrobe are still there, albeit with significantly different contents. The desk unit, which formed the third part of the matching set, had been damaged somewhat ((this desk was very fragile, being supported by two hinges at the back and a couple of slender metal arms. I once attempted to detonate a whoopee cushion by placing it on the desk and sitting on it. Unsurprisingly, the whoopee cushion remained unexploded, and the desk bore the brunt of the force. The screws holding the slender metal arms remained securely in the wood, but the bit of the wood that they were connected to parted company with all the rest of the wood.)), so became the source of a wonderful bonding moment between my dad and I. We had realised that carrying it downstairs was going to be a lot of effort, and once we got it outside we were just going to demolish it anyway. So we demolished it there and then, on the upstairs landing, with hammers, screwdrivers and roundhouse kicks, showering the house with flakes of chipboard.
Where was I? Ah, yes, the bedside cabinet.
I used to keep all sorts of interesting things in that bedside cabinet. It held a deck of Top Trumps and a deck of adult playing cards. It held handkerchiefs and a piece of the Berlin Wall. It held a walkie talkie (my sister had the other one in her bedroom) and a filofax with pictures of rally cars pritt-stuck on. It held spare electric plugs and a calculator. It held all this and much, much more. It was the accumulation of items acquired between the ages of 5 and 18, none of them larger than a kitten.
The continual opening and closing of those drawers meant that the items would all slide and slip around, bouncing off of each other and generally causing a helluva mess. Especially before I was a teenager, when I still had boundless energy, and if a drawer wasn’t opened quickly and noisily, then justice hadn’t really been done to the whole global drawer-opening concern.
Every once in a while, I would slide those drawers all the way out, and invert them over my bedroom carpet. This was especially dangerous in the days before I started bringing girls home, as the junk tide mark around the edges of my small bedroom was much higher than in later years. Subsequently some small items would be liable to fall into the sea, and contribute to the gradual rising of the junk levels.
Then I would gently place all the items back into the drawers, maintaining orthogonality, and neat piles with small things on top of larger things, and so forth until Mr Hanoi himself would nod approvingly.
Then I’d put the drawers back in and slam them, in the only way that I knew how. Everything would slide to the back and form an amorphous mass.
Ah, memories.
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Neighbour Confusion
As I got home just now, with the bag of chinese takeaway in my hand (which, I should add, is sat beside me, looking rather “dishy”… heheheheh…), my nextdoor neighbour, whom I have never met before, was just leaving his house.
Momentarily, I forgot that he probably had no idea who I was. I gave him the kind of “Hello”, avec smile, that one normally preserves for one’s nextdoor neighbour of eight years, or a coworker whom you don’t particularly like, when you bump into them in the town centre on Saturday.
Well, either he recognised me, or he’s not the Who the fuck are you? sort, because he responded in kind.
As I walked past his front gate and through my own, I looked back to see whether there was a visual epiphany. I have to credit him, none such was apparent.
My crispy shredded beef looks lovely.