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Old walls

These walls are built of stone, packed with clay, plastered, painted - and with time, the cracks show. Paint flakes off, plaster crumbles, cracks become missing chunks, and when you pry away a rotten patch, sand cascades down.

Clear away the damaged bits, treat the thirsty wall, fill the damaged bits, plaster over them. Repeat. Year by year by year.

The well-maintained old wall will never look new. It's tempting to spruce it briefly with a quick coat of paint, but take time, get to the root of the problem and treat it properly, and the wall stands proud and firm again.

















We’re all walls.
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I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

and I missed you sooo much! Two months today since I packed my computer and although I got it back a week ago it took until today to get connected to the real world.

What have I missed? Who is in love with who? Who's flirting, who's spitting bullets, anyone do something exciting or something really stupid which is still making them blush a little?

I have learned that extreme housework - chipping at plaster, and painting, and hard physical labour rather than cleaning and polishing, although there's that too - doesn't suit me. Every fingernail is broken or chipped, I am lightly spattered with paint freckles, my hair stands out from my head like a loo brush, I say a grateful oooof when I sit down and arggghhhh when I have to stand up, and I walk like John Wayne in his last films. I look about 50 years older than my profile pic. All temporary. (I hope)

Found a bit of newspaper stuffed into a crack in an old wall (interesting ways people repaired walls here but hey, it was dry and the story legible, that was awesome) which talks about el presidento Jimmy Carter, I'm a little hazy on which president happened when, hope an American buddy can date that for me.

So that's me all up to date. Your turn. popcorn
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Biff moving out of the van

*****breaking news ********

*****read all about it! ******

applause banana cheering

My offer has been accepted, the deposit has been paid, and soon, hopefully really very soon, I shall be quitting the van and moving into a house with no furniture, plaster falling off the walls, at least one sagging ceiling, and a loo / shower the size of a telephone box (quite a lot bigger than the camper one, in other words)

Guess this is a bit late to be having second thoughts and panic attacks.

help
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making the first move

So I know this shy guy, 40 or so, a fellow writer, who has been fantasizing about meeting a woman who will pick him up and make him happy.

Now a woman who has been a friend for a while is being a bit flirty, AND has made an arrangement which means socially they will now be bumping into each other on a regular basis. He's delighted - but not sure how to react. He's very shy. He also wants her in charge, how does he show he's interested, and yet still have her setting the pace?

I personally will reach out once or twice but if the guy ignores it, that's it, for me. Not risking rejection. But if both of them are too shy to take a risk ....

REVENGE

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold.

I don't mind if it is hot or cold, but I want it. The person bringing my car from Scotland with me paying ferry, tolls and flight back, has done a dirty on me, picked a quarrel, taken the huff and taken my car to Malaga, 80 km away, so I have to get it from there.

It will be a massive pain in the butt but that's not what the blog is about. I'm ANGRY. It has cost me hundreds of pounds, he's had the use of the car for a holiday with his best girl, and he's cheated at the last on the deal.

I fought myself for quite a while not to report it stolen. I'm not, after all, that nasty - but I do want satisfaction. It was a cheap trick to play, a completely selfish thing to do, and I don't care if my retaliation is silly, or childish, or a little bit evil so long as this anger stops eating me up. Hell, make me laugh, cheer me up, but spike my imagination.

Suggestions? devil
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Man cave

So you have the chance to buy, pretty cheaply, a 600 sq m shed. Yes, that size is right. 600 square metres. Big enough to park, oh, 30 regular cars? In a SHED. Next to your home.

Would you?
Why?























The first few comments relate to goats and things. That's because I edited the blog to what you now see. The goats and things were distracting from the question.
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15 years and now this, ungrateful sod

I can't believe the change in him since we came to Spain - oh, he's never been what you'd call devoted. There was a lot of open space in this relationship, but he was home every night. Well, nearly every night. Most nights. Even if I went to sleep alone he was there when I woke up, pressed up against me, well you know how it is. All lovey-dovey, eyes only for me, no-one else matters, yeah yeah. Whatever.

Fifteen years.

Now he comes home just to eat, gobbling his food, then he's gone again with barely a backward glance. He'd probably say it's my fault for dragging him on one too many property hunts. Huh. It's just an excuse. He's offended by living in a van and looking for better, that's crystal clear.

Well, fine. FINE. Throw away 15 good years. See the tear in my eye? No, because you won't. You can go to hell.

Stupid cat. mumbling
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One packing problem sorted

How long does bubbly last, anyway? I found six, count them, six, bottles (so far) waiting to be packed. I don't even remember who gave me the first few, or when.

Anyway, hell with it. They're too heavy, and the stuff is cheap where I'm going. Opened one, poured a glass and poured rest down the drain.

Repeat.

Shnot a washte if you drink a glash, ri'?

Can't drink alone, thatsh not nishe. Sho here I am. Cheersh.

Glash a bubbly? wine Theresh plenny.
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International Kissing Day

How did we miss this?

Have you kissed someone today?


This is a pretty iconic kiss.

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Who would you like to kiss today? What celebrity / actor / actress / famous figure from the past would, if they crossed your path, be soundly smooched? Or even someone you know, of course. I suppose. That's a bit of a waste of a day when no holds are barred ...

Nope, JJ has got me nostalgic. Remember your first important kiss? what you were wearing, where it was?
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When Hauggh met Sallhhg

(A caveman love story) (fun only)

It was full moon and Sallhhg knew there had to be more to life than the village and picking a good hunter to cook and clean for. She was standing staring at the moon and then

..............................................BAM

For him, it was love at first sight. He clubbed her so gently she saw rainbows, not stars, and he carried her to his cave instead of dragging her by her hair - what a GENT!

It was love for her too, when the rainbows cleared away smitten she knew it the minute she saw the wealth of furs he had heaped in the sleeping corner. Not stiff sticky ones still spiky with blood, either. Properly cured, soft, warm, hardly smelling at all . . .

The moon was full again when he told her she’d have to go back to the village.

“But Hauggh! We do zooby zooms every night, sometime morning! This love!”

“Sallhhg” he said patiently “is been nice, you good good for zooby zooms. But is new moon now. You go.”

“Why?” crying

“No blood. That show you done, bun in oven, cooking. That mean soon no more zooby zooms, no more happy, nag nag nag. No. Been there. Done that. I make best buns, you lucky girl, but now me must find more ovens, make more buns.”

“But Hauggh! I love!” crying

So then he sat her down and he patiently explained the whole meaning of life

“World is bakery. Job of young woman is oven, to make buns. Me, Hauggh, master baker. You very good zooby zooms, so you had one whole moon of master baker. If you have bun, you lucky woman. If you not have bun, you defective. If you have very good bun, maybe I bring you back here next year, make more buns? Now go to village - and while you wait for bun, make me a fur for cave, eh? Nice soft one, no smell.”

(aren't we glad we live in modern times?)
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Age and mileage, please

I’m looking for a specific kind of vehicle, and suddenly noticed a certain familiarity about my list. See if you can spot it.

Not too young - they’re too expensive.
Not too old - they’re too high maintenance
Number of owners - lots is a definite eyebrow-raiser
Fuel consumption - how heavy a drinker?
Performance when the going is tough
Comfort - definitely important
Looks - don't mind a bit tatty or dented, but not rusty

And I wouldn’t really want a vehicle which coughed, spluttered and emitted clouds of smoke when started up on a cold morning.

Yup. Very like a singles checklist rolling on the floor laughing

At least with vehicles I can check them on DVLA (our vehicle website) and see when they last had a roadworthy test. One possible turned out to be 10 years older than the ad said, and had 100K more on the clock. That’s a bit familiar too laugh

Any advice? On vehicles, I mean, but all the funnier if they relate to singles too grin

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The first teleport step taken At LAST

okay, only a photon but - the first manned flight was not particularly impressive. It would have been impossible to guess, watching the Wright brothers fly 120 feet in their first attempt in 1903, that Lindbergh would, in 1927, fly the Atlantic. Completely impossible to guess that Lindbergh would be a guest of honour watching Apollo 11 head to the moon in 1969.

So a photon this week could be a mammal in - how long?

I want to know when I can teleport from London to Edinburgh - an hour and a half, flying time, usually. Because yesterday I got to Stansted at 6 pm and I got to Edinburgh at 11 pm and I'm a bit bored with the conventional ways of getting from A to B.
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