I had a dream that I am at work, and there is this bad electrical machine that my boss asks me to neutralise, while she turns off the electricity. I work quickly to detach all the wires and then my boss turns the electricity back on. the machine is no longer a danger but i [...]
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Rabbit crime increases in Devon
A hefty rabbit with previously identified binge eating issues broke free from its cage at the neighbours’ place to eat all of my mother’s onions and shallots – apparently the correct response to this is not to laugh or make jokes about the succulence of the rabbit after it has stuffed itself. Although in the [...]
walking2dartmoor
Mum had new walking poles for her 70th birthday, from my brother. She’s very serious about walking when she uses them!
mum @ paignton
It’s de rigeur for us to enjoy the faded splendor of Paignton beach if I visit in the summer. As well as the joy of deckchairs and crab sandwiches, there is now the added theatre of the attack seagulls who like to swoop down to steal food – they are not fussy eaters, we saw them [...]
Dough is me
Christmas Day, and my brother wants me to watch his new DVD, excited i agree. – could it be a new scifi film, or an obscure but brilliant history or science documentary he has discovered, or something equally as edifying? BTW, the moral is that if a family member you see infrequently asks you to [...]
Transports of Delight
I don’t know if all Devon bus rides are like this, and I suspect it wouldn’t be nearly as amusing in the height of summer when you were in a hurry to get to the beach, but this is an accurate account of a Buckfastleigh bus ride: The bus arrived a few minutes late, people [...]
