Archive for May, 2008

Selotaped together relationship.
May 29, 2008

The “line” separating a human being between child and adulthood varies between the sexes. For women it is a hairline division which girls step effortlessly over and if they need some parental dependance then all they need to do is trot back to the other side. The male line is more of a 10ft stucco [...]

Sex and the City - the identitiy crisis.
May 28, 2008

Ah the summer collections are out en force on the highstreets of urban England. Needless to say, London had them days before the rest of the vital organs of the British Isles as a consumer body but such as it is, fashion as per gets the heart pumping before distributing the liquid around to all [...]

Don’t email me any more willies, please.
May 20, 2008

What is the etiquette when being sent rude, sexist and often laughless fish-wife email fwds in the workplace?
You know the ones I mean, the soulless fwds with the subject title something along the lines of: ^^fwd:HILARIOUS!You MUST read!^^ The email within revealing a flash animation of an african tribesman dancing with his inordinantly-sized genetalia and [...]

Candid Candles
May 19, 2008

I am not a religious person by any stretch of the imagination. I happily jump on the bandwagon along with fair-weather Jews, Hindus and Muslims alike at Christmas just as I embrace the extra holidays that the country’s assigned religions give us in the long and gloomy months however I would never consider myself to be [...]

Thoughts on Learning to Drive
May 5, 2008

It is considered a rite of passage to exchange that miserable, green card bearing your name and an equally miserable photo of your world-weary adolescent face for a fresh, pink, shiny new one. I am of course talking about driving licences. My provisional has been cramping my style for four years! Four years on I [...]

A Shopaholic’s Guide to Thrift
May 4, 2008

I am pleased to have compiled a scheme which can both save one pennies and also take the edge off a commerce-fast. For those of us who are students on a fixed income, on disability benefit, graduates wallowing in debt or simply those of us who have still not broken past that £6.00 per hour [...]