madness

Posted 24 August 2009 By mac and has 2 comments.

I’m not sleeping at all well at the moment, for various reasons, and I’ve learned to just get up and do something else rather than lie in bed.

But it does seem a particular kind of madness to suddenly decide that I needed to find all the cats’ microchip details at 4:45 in the morning. And I can’t find them anyway, or not all of them.

[later] Yay – found the Identichip certificates for the two oldest cats. Just EnRon’s to locate now, and I think I know where they are.

[later still] – No, Iggy’s still missing. That’s an arse.

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the fabulous UOGB in full flight

Posted 13 August 2009 By mac and has 6 comments.

Enjoy. And don’t forget to watch their Prom on 18th August.

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Tescowatch (an occasional series)

Posted 11 August 2009 By mac and has 3 comments.

George Monbiot writes in today’s Guardian.

I have been writing about it for years. But it’s only now, when I’m caught in the middle of it, that the full force of this injustice hits me. Like everyone else here I feel powerless, unstrung as I watch disaster unfolding in slow motion.

There’s a similar battle going on in Bedminster, about 3 miles from where we live. And Tesco will win. They always win.

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an excellent vintage

Posted 5 August 2009 By mac and has 1 comment.

I have already laid down (!) five bottles of Shiraz (the kits say 6 bottles, but by the time you’ve discarded the sludge, you seem to get 5 red, and 5.5 white). However, the Shiraz came with poncy labels.

This Pinot Grigio kit didn’t, so I printed some off on my trusty Dymo Labelwriter.

I have 1.5 gallons of apple wine maturing in the kitchen, 1 gallon of elderflower (kit), 1 gallon of gooseberry (from the fruit) and 1 gallon of Barolo (kit) on the go in the hall.

Time to write a database to keep track of them, I think!

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Tescowatch (an occasional series)

By mac and has 3 comments.

Tesco hides figures after missing target to reduce plastic bag usage

Britain’s biggest supermarket chain has published misleading figures giving the impression that it had met an industry target to halve the use of plastic bags.

From The Times.

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it seems appropriate, somehow

Posted 3 August 2009 By mac and has no comments yet.


Lionboy

Originally uploaded by ramtops

Iggy wih an appropriate book – I’ve just re-read the Lionboy series, and haven’t got round to putting them away. The books are lovely, by the way – highly recommended.

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