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The Mull Historical Society – a bit like The Divine Comedy meets Travis. Try Watching Xanadu as a first track.

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yay. anther birthday gone, almost entirely painlessly, other than having my mother get me out of bed by phoning at the unspeakable hour of 0745h a small scotch, and then time for bed.

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i went a bit mad; found marks and spencer are finally stocking 2xl polo shirts, which was a revelation. to date, i am used to m&s stocking for the minority and stopping at xl. sooooo…. 124 quid at m&s, and then a tesco run which included a run through the chart cd section; eminem, qotsa

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One of my cats – Buster – seems to have taken to using my laptop as a butt-warming device. I’m glad the iBook has a shiny case, it makes the pawprints easier to wipe off. They’ve had a dose of frontline since I found a flea this evening, hopefully it can be nipped in the

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ten leylandii conifers cut down, some rough ground cleared, and loads of heavy gardening. cooking. oh yes, and sleep. lots of sleep. finally i feel i am getting over the last virus – surely it must be a virus to have survived 10 days of penicillin and lasted since early march. here’s hoping for a

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you can’t do anything whilst smoking them, except stop, think, and contemplate. i’ve just spent the past hour smoking one, and have worked out what i am doing to the garden today.

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i just had a call frm a headhunter; at least i presume it was a headhunter, because they claimed to be a magazine in new york to which i had never subscribed, but was “free”, and they sent me a copy six months ago, and wanted to clarify my job title. who the hell telephones

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recent history i left guillemont a little too late to make my flight to lisbon; i reckoned that i had just made it, but even with half an hour to go before takeoff they closed the flight in case i was incapable of running to catch it. i got rebooked onto the next lisbon flight

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“UFO could have been electrocuted cat Experts say a reported UFO sighting in Norway was probably an electrocuted cat. People in Lardal reported seeing a fire ball explode in the night sky and fall slowly down to earth. But investigators think they’ve solved the mystery after the charred body of a cat was found at

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…and felt that it did portend many things in a portentous sort of way. it seems that i was right [news.bbc.co.uk] i was going to entitle this entry: saddam hussein ate my walking boots …but felt that having woken up to find war being prosecuted in the mid-east, that perhaps the omen cited in the

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okay, okay; so there have been no updates while i was in denver and i have been a bit scanty with the personal diary stuff of late (especially cat-oriented stuff to satisfy the likes of brad and the other feline-fans) so let’s try and make up for it a little. weekend before last comprised gardening

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type three sexually-loaded nouns and adjectives into google’s image search, and try to come up with zero hits. safesearch should be “off” eg: [images.google.com] is a winner.

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