Category: Random
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X Marks the Spot
For everything in history There’s always a hint of mystery From an engraving in a rock To an X that marks a spot
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The Face in the Crystal Ball
I have an amethyst pyramid which I keep beside my computer. And beside the pyramid, I have a snowflake obsidian crystal ball. Both crystals stand out against all the technology and papers and other clutter that is around, but are always comforting. A natural energy to balance out the static electricity and artificial light from…
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The Superhero Diaries 2.4: Going nowhere fast
Technical hitches, it would seem, affect superheroes too. Here’s a transcript of the Satellite Navigation device in the Elite Force of Britain’s Four-Wheel Drive, used whilst the team were supposedly investigating the sudden appearance of a small island named Middlehaven, just off the coast of southern England somewhere: Good. Morning. Please. Enteryour. Destination. . Thank…
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Cheap and cheerful
I’m not shoppist. I’ll shop anywhere when I need to. I have my favourite supermarket, where I go regularly, usually with bad hair and a wonky trolley, but go I do, and have, it can be said, a whale of a time. OK. Maybe not that great an experience, but it’s OK. Not what could…
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Technical Hitches

My on-line banking service is currently not available. Or ‘temporarily unavailable’ as they are declaring on their website. The media are having a field day, reporting widespread problems including card refusals. And here was I, a mere three hours ago, joking with the cashier in the shop that I wasn’t expecting my new card to…