Tag: Day-to-day
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Losing an hour, gaining a bad back!
“Ooh me aching back!” Not the best of starts to a positive post. Not the best of starts to the first day of good old British Summer Time either. Although the day itself didn’t actually start that way. I had forgotten to un-set my alarm last night when I went to bed. I had an…
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Noticing connections
What can it mean? I’ll tell you what it means! This is the last post in my mini-challenge-within-a-challenge. It has been a week already, and each day I have included the various required elements in each of the posts. So, to complete the challenge: Lilac Pear Hull Fay Wray Kraken Boing One hundred and fifty…
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The glamorous life of a call girl
I started work just before my eighteenth birthday. Well, I started working in a ‘proper’ job just before my eighteenth birthday – I had worked on a Youth Training Scheme before then which should have been for art, design and printing, but mostly entailed cleaning out the gent’s loos. Oh, I did do some art,…
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Short post after a long weekend
I’ve reached the end of another long weekend. A great, well needed rest, I must say, but the time has, once again, passed by a little too quickly for my liking. I finished work at lunchtime on Friday, and had also booked today off so I could coincide my break with my birthday. I haven’t…
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New Year’s Day
Many, many years ago today, I appeared on this world in this current form. The real me, Tom, the secret identity of Aquatom1968. Over the time, I have been witness to some rather unusual things. A lot of unusual things. The Seventies, for one thing. I seem to remember power cuts, national strikes, and a…