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All our advisers are busy, please hold Just so you know, when you hear that (for the 10th time) and are getting madder and madder, imagining all the advisers chatting round the water cooler...	842	17	1	Jul 2018	Jul 2018	Apr 5
Imagination running riot? I now take paying guests and I've had one here for a couple of weeks now and I might be turning into one of those slightly batty types who think every...	2,391	95	0	Jul 2018	Jul 2018	20 hrs ago
Que sera, sera What will be, will be. Alles sal regkom. Things will work out. Go where the wind takes you. On the other hand - my personal mantra is ‘if not now,...	1,280	34	0	Jul 2018	Jul 2018	Mar 23
Beetle-based blog Big black beetles in Spain, long-legged, seem harmless, fascinate the cat. He tips them over and watches with interest as they struggle to get back on...	1,234	39	0	Jul 2018	Jul 2018	24 hrs ago
The love thing I have blogged on this before, but I never got an answer that made sense to me so bear with me. To get the right answer, you have to ask the right que...	3,963	116	0	May 2016	Jul 2018	Apr 15
The Male Robot Companion (MaRC) - a review The way to sell to a man is to mark the product as exclusive and double the price. The way to sell to a woman is to say she can have two for the p...	721	23	0	Jun 2018	Jun 2018	Apr 7
Humble Seriously, why describe yourself as humble? Does it have a slang meaning I'm missing (like wicked sick = WOW amazing) because it is not a...	2,516	89	0	May 2018	Jun 2018	Apr 13
putting smoking in its place this is a blog for the smokers on CS - the social, the regular, the trying-to-quit, and even those who call themselves non-smokers but turn up for mee...	1,653	41	0	Jun 2018	Jun 2018	18 hrs ago

Dogs and fireworks / thunder / guns Dogs don't like fireworks, sure, we all know that but reactions range from flinching to outright hysterics. Why? We know hunting dogs cope with th...	1,276	41	0	Jun 2018	Jun 2018	9 hrs ago
if you had to choose - this came up as a topic in class, and intrigued me. If you had to choose between not being able to speak again OR not being able to stop y...	1,643	66	0	May 2018	May 2018	17 hrs ago
Beta reader needed (Blog edited) Ever considered beta-reading? Indie writers of romantic comedies, historical novels, SF, crime, whodunits, horror, fantasy, erotica,...	720	16	0	May 2018	May 2018	Apr 16
If you were my mobile phone, where would you be? And please don't all shout at once. I can't phone it, it is going straight to voicemail, it does that, decides to take a break every now and th...	1,842	94	0	May 2018	May 2018	11 hrs ago
and this little piggie went ouch ouch ouch ouch all the way home damn damn DAMN have broken my baby toe, how can something so small and utterly useless be so crippling? I've straightened it EINA and tried ta...	803	25	0	May 2018	May 2018	9 hrs ago
Abnormal. Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, and sitting for ages in gridlocked rush hour traffic in a car that you...	1,736	55	0	May 2018	May 2018	Apr 17
Spring has been significant for the last few years Anyone still on Facebook knows how they love to throw up 'memories' from previous years, and sometimes they are interesting. Facebook reminded me toda...	540	13	0	May 2018	May 2018	Apr 15
Eggs for dummies At one and the same time the most boring, yet potentially most useful, blog I have ever posted. Those who know their onions eggs can please...	807	21	0	Apr 2018	May 2018	9 hrs ago
In a world where you can be anything - be kind The heading, and the following, are Facebook philosophies picked up today - it may be just my timeline, but there's a faint trend towards optimism aft...	942	23	0	Apr 2018	Apr 2018	Apr 8
Captain Kirk isn't dead Bill Shatner is a little annoyed to have had his death announced on a Facebook link. This social media thing is getting out of hand. However his s...	1,014	26	0	Mar 2018	Apr 2018	Apr 17
The impulse buy So I saw this bulky black leather sofa cheapcheapCHEAP at a charity shop a few months back and bought it because I need furniture and it was just the...	1,346	43	0	Apr 2018	Apr 2018	18 hrs ago
Murder or self defence - There's a lot of play right now in the UK media because a couple of thugs were threatening a man of 78 in his kitchen and he got the screwdriver off o...	1,608	32	0	Apr 2018	Apr 2018	Apr 16
When you don't have the words ... I'm not sure what I would have said even if there hadn't been a language barrier, tbh. Picture it - This morning my dog was doing her squat in the...	2,199	48	0	Apr 2018	Apr 2018	Apr 17

Said yes, and I’m taking the plunge, squeeeee I’ll be honest with you, I never expected to marry again but he kept asking and the more I thought about it, the more I realized this is actually the...	2,336	84	0	Mar 2018	Apr 2018	34 mins ago
Sold my van . . . farewell adventure. :( Blog buddies may remember last August I packed up my whole life, bought a 2003 converted Citroen Relay, and drove from Scotland to Spain with a dog, a...	1,357	39	0	Mar 2018	Mar 2018	Apr 8
When your kids disapprove ... Mothering Sunday in the UK, hope all the UK mums are being spoiled with, at the very least, a lie-in and a tidy house when they get up N...	813	29	0	Mar 2018	Mar 2018	Mar 24
See you on the other side - switching off at sunset Sundown March 9 to sundown March 10 is the national day of switching off the internet and reconnecting with real life. Wonder how quiet it will get on...	622	8	0	Mar 2018	Mar 2018	Apr 18
Bloggers are all writers, so creating a story together should be a doddle It was a dark and stormy night, and Al was alone in his apartment. He’d only lived there a week, and there were still boxes to be unpacked, but instea...	883	26	0	Mar 2018	Mar 2018	Apr 17
(Bloggers are writers sidelong blog) (For comments that can't be added to the story blog, just in case one is needed) Blown AWAY guys can't wait to see what happens n...	811	17	0	Mar 2018	Mar 2018	Apr 11
Jealousy - what is it good for? Even animals get jealous - for attention, or competing for the same thing - and Nature doesn't build in pointless emotions, so what is jealousy good f...	3,980	153	0	Feb 2018	Feb 2018	5 hrs ago
Best. microstory. ever Nobody dared go near the tower. A fearsome dragon perched on its top. Until one day a knight rode up. 'You need help getting down?' 'Please'...	455	3	0	Feb 2018	Feb 2018	Apr 17
"Ask For Angela" This is an initiative in the UK for women who feel unsafe on a date in a public place like a pub or nightclub - they can go to anyone working there an...	718	19	0	Jan 2018	Jan 2018	Apr 18
Define normal I was divorced and back in the dating pool before I met my first nutter. They're not all on the dating websites, you know, they move among us in real...	1,982	64	0	Jan 2018	Jan 2018	Apr 17

Dosh - you know - collecting the readies I want to be coining it, rolling in filthy lucre, getting more bang out of every buck, turning a pretty penny, minting it, saving for a rainy day, mak...	1,961	63	0	Jan 2018	Jan 2018	17 hrs ago
Killer flu - a warning In 1918 Spanish flu swept the world, killing an estimated 50 million people. 100 years later, Aussie flu (as it is called except in the US) is kno...	1,876	41	0	Jan 2018	Jan 2018	Apr 18
Can't believe I missed Kiss A Ginger Day Actually I don't know if they celebrate it here, there aren't many gingers in the south of Spain, I may be the only one in my small town. But if they...	1,725	62	0	Jan 2018	Jan 2018	17 hrs ago
Therefore I am The original* is philosophical not specific, I know that, borrowing the words not the thoughts for this blog. If I think I am happy, I am surely h...	1,318	29	0	Jan 2018	Jan 2018	Apr 10
Breakfast Ok, all hands to the plough here, the challenge is to create an East meets West breakfast. So ................ easiest is to say (a) what you...	2,200	90	0	Jan 2018	Jan 2018	19 hrs ago
That was 2017 - done and dusted. Most hectic year EVER. I started 2017 employed and living in Scotland but knowing that the Scottish offices of my company were closing and we were being made redundant in Ap...	1,663	69	0	Jan 2018	Jan 2018	3 hrs ago
Daft things we do I was telling a friend yesterday how I lost my keys (luckily only briefly) (left them on a shelf in a shop) while out shopping yesterday, and she said...	996	35	0	Dec 2017	Dec 2017	Apr 17
On message yet? You shouldn't read this blog, I'm in a moody ranting mood and feeling terminally irritated with the Three Big Subjects. Tis the season to be jolly, tr...	883	12	0	Dec 2017	Dec 2017	16 hrs ago
Oranges and lemons Got home the other day from shopping to find a bag of lemons hanging on the door - they turned out to be from my new neighbours from Madrid, who own a...	895	21	0	Dec 2017	Dec 2017	Apr 14
Hugs When I was a child, Best Beloved, the only people you hugged were female relatives, while male relatives patted you on the head and sometimes there wa...	907	34	0	Dec 2017	Dec 2017	Apr 7
we talk too much oh, not here on CS. Generally. Money may be the root of all evil but it is only when we talk about it that people get really het up. If you don't...	1,506	47	0	Dec 2017	Dec 2017	2 hrs ago

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