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Goddamned Awful World
It might be Bank Holiday Monday, but bloody property management has just announced a rent increase. Not a big hike, but all part of greed...
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Aug 30, 20211 min read
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Language learning
Duolingo for Italian. Weird that Set 10 Stories were so much more difficult than Set 9. Why? It's good to be reminded of the difficulties...
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Aug 29, 20211 min read
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Utterly Useless
I won't name the, but my word, the property management company from whom I rent are less useful than the proverbial chocolate teapot....
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Aug 28, 20212 min read
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Back ache
Great start to the day. Could hardly get my socks on. Funny, but not funny! Listening to the sententious rhetoric on the BBC. It strikes...
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Aug 27, 20211 min read
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Whatever happened to service
The house supposedly needs rewiring; getting it arranged is like wading though treacle. A truly minor botheration in the grand scheme of...
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Aug 26, 20211 min read
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Soon be Christmas...
My least favourite time of year: no significant other. Might fly to Turkey; no celebrations. Dominic Raab on BBC, so may have to turn it...
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Aug 25, 20211 min read
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The dull ache
The existential pain is not acute but it is constant and there is no remedy for it. I saw a clipping from a local New Zealand paper dated...
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Aug 24, 20211 min read
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2 weeks before school starts again
Our species is bound for quick extinction. Blather on my news-feed - hopeless inadequacy. Everything seems to be in perpetual confusion....
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Aug 23, 20211 min read
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Questions, questions
All with no answer or a glibness that would have been replaced by grim silence. Afghanistan: where did all these Taliban come from? Were...
ferristeaching
Aug 22, 20211 min read
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Slept through to 8.00
So unusual, but I have been feeling tired a lot. Weird really; no apparent cycle, but nonetheless... They are talking about Education and...
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Aug 21, 20211 min read
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Continuing Disastrous Scenario
A pundit just said, 'When the US ends..' Then added, 'its mission.' So glad for the clarification. I told Rossella yesterday that I had...
ferristeaching
Aug 20, 20211 min read
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Up at 7:18
I never get up this late. Then found no bread and no muesli in the house. Unfriended a fair few people on Facebook yesterday, thinking...
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Aug 19, 20211 min read
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Doing surveys for money
YouGov and I-say sent me two about retail. Do people actually THINK about such things? My astrologer housemate says Mars and Mercury in...
ferristeaching
Aug 18, 20211 min read
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The perception of the normal
It is so distorted. YouGov send surveys about my retail habits - I don't have any! The assumptions of the majority, or of the ruling cdre...
ferristeaching
Aug 17, 20212 min read
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More backward glances and recriminations
Both Plymouth and Afghanistan are producing diatribes and whimpers. Lessons are never learned. Or so it seems. As I said before, I just...
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Aug 16, 20211 min read
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Getting nearer the end of the year
And setting a target of 1000 followers is pie in the sky when you die, I fear! May have reached the point where this image has been...
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Aug 15, 20211 min read
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The writing's on the wall
I hate this preponderance of the display of 'nice' art. And thousands supply the market. I do not want art to espouse the opposite pole,...
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Aug 14, 20212 min read
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Post-colonialism's ugly head
Sometimes the carping is just part of the background noise, sometimes more agitated and angry. Though the cowboy is a common enough trope...
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Aug 13, 20211 min read
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Everything is pointless
I looked at the Babylonian utter blandness and wondered why on earth anyone bothers? Just adding these images in the number order they...
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Aug 12, 20211 min read
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Grade inflation, anyone?
Education, education, education... I think not. What a mess. Again. I know and understand the difficulties created by the pandemic and...
ferristeaching
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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