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Would you believe that I've just been forced to go and stand outside the office for 10 minutes!? My crime? The cup of curried parsnip ...

... her bags did! The doorbell rang at about 9pm last night, and there was a taxi outside with her bag in it... so I guess we should say ...

For reasons I'd really better not go into, work isn't a lot of fun at the moment, and hasn't been for some time. And today I got...

Now, let's get this in proportion... my house isn't a tip... it's just that there are 3 or 4 boxes of "important but not th...

I had at least some news to bring you, instead of just the jokes, music videos and cat / dog things, but the most exciting thing in my life ...

... er, coughing and blowing my nose, actually. Boss went away today (comes back Thursday sometime), and Flunky & I have spent the day c...

more cat pictures Whew... That's another Friday the 12+1th over! Actually *whispers just in case Fate's clock is slow* this Friday ...

It's brrn so boeing hrer at woek this aftrenoon that I'vr ersoetrd to clraning my drsk - rvrn taking all thr krys off my kryboaed an...

But tonight just after 5pm I locked the shop I work in sometimes (increasingly often for the last few months) - the one that sells paper and...

Another 8am start today, because 2 of our staff were away (not bad, you might think - but that only leaves 2... to look after 2 places... an...

Been at work today all alone, up at the store, from ( beep ) 8o'clock this morning... and it's been one of those days where it's...

A white world (taken with a phone camera through a dirty, steamy window)... Last night we had hailstones... this morning when I peeked out ...

All too often go completely and utterly all to cock! Today should have been a really busy day at work - we were meant to be shut today and t...

It's hard to believe it's been nearly a week since I've been on here to do anything more than post the daily music video, but it...

Yep, a magnifying glass - Then it wouldn't have mattered that I was halfway to work (only just on time) in the taxi when I realised that...

That's 2 days I've made it through! Only 4 more to survive before I get one day off... and then another 6... and this having to cov...

... have been utter shit, frankly. Thursday, Friday & Saturday were all spent going back and fore to the counter at work and repeating t...

And so it starts.... It is 8am, I've just arrived at work (an hour earlier than usual), and I'm here all alone for the next 3 days. ...

Photo taken by local astronomer John Vetterlein and shown on our local newspaper website... This is what the sky above Orkney looked like la...

Well, my dilemma from yesterday has been sorted... and it was only a dilemma because I forgot to bring my glasses with me to work on Saturda...