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A disturbing thought and a thank you

For the last few days I’ve been languishing on my sickbed (lying on the sofa) as my cats have lovingly sat and purred at my feet (alternately sat on my head and brought in wet leaves that they have ‘killed’ … Continue reading

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Being Geographically Challenged Pog Style

Someone asked me today if these stories are all true. I’m not sure whether to be proud or embarrassed to say that they are. And that all of them so far have happened in the last few months. This one … Continue reading

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Death by Tesco (almost)

There has recently been huge excitement in Country Bumpkinsville.  Our Tesco closed for a week to reopen bigger, better, stronger and longer.  Or something. I’d like to claim that I have remained unaffected by such a trivial thing as a … Continue reading

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STOP PRESS: Update on Nose-Clip-Man

Update on Nose-Clip-Man (see here if you have no idea what I am wibbling about: https://thepogblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/the-propositioning-water-fountain/)  I think I may have scared him properly last week.  Today he was in disguise.  He was Nose-Clip-Less!

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Training with a Smile

We don’t often get to go on training these days, so when I found I’d been unexpectedly scheduled on a one day course I thought that worse case, it would be a day away from the laptop. It turned out … Continue reading

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The Propositioning Water Fountain

As part of the un-fatness plan, I am swimming twice a week now and loving it (well, I went twice last week and the intention is there to continue…).  Frankly, it’s more enjoyable to be in the warm and intentionally … Continue reading

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How the Cookie Fairy came about (and would you like to join her?)

Are you sitting comfortably?  Then I’ll begin. Once upon a time (just under 10 months ago actually), Pog gave up the evil cigarettes and instead started baking cookies with the abandon previously only reserved for her smoking.  Eating cookies at … Continue reading

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Ahhhhh…!

If you are in need of an ‘aaaahhhh’ then this one is for you.  Yesterday Sister 1, Sister 2, Brother-in-law (Bil) and I all went on a road trip to meet Sister 1 and Bil’s puppy.    We packed provisions to … Continue reading

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A small un-fatness plan update

Well, the un-fatness plan has started.  This morning I was in the changing rooms of the local pool wondering: 1) how to get out (thank goodness for Little Sister 1) and 2) why I hadn’t checked the size of my … Continue reading

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The joys of spell check

There was a bit of a discussion today on Twitter on words that you consistently type incorrectly.  Mine is ‘the’ which always comes out ‘teh’.  It would be better to have a slightly less common word, but at least spell … Continue reading

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