Monthly Archives October 2006

The Root Canal - Part I

Hello, I am writing this amid a pique of fear. I have dentist in a couple of hours, I am having root canal gubbins done. I don’t know alot about dentistry, but I know it will hurt. Having my teeth scraped yesterday hurt and even the most rudimentary knowledge will tell you that drilling hurts more than [...]

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#1 - Newington Library

There’s been a lot of planning and laminiating and stressing and the everpresent self-doubt. But we finally got to the first laughterinoddplaces. We were over-subscribed, mainly thanks to my ineptitude at saying no when we got full, but my main concern on the night before was that the clocks were going [...]

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The Coiffeured Chipmunk

I was one the tube today, something I am on less and less frequently these days and therefore find more bewildering with each trek. Today’s journey was taking me to James Sherwoods neck of the woods to get a life to a gig. as ever I forgot that 5.30pm on the Northern Line is rush hour [...]

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The Lack of Hot Water

Oh dear, Bit of a crisis. The estate I live on has no hot water. Some underground pipe has rotted away and seemingly this is the one that pipes the hot water from Africa, or wherever it comes from, I am not so sure how it works. We have had a series of small bits of card through [...]

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The Retro Wanker

It would be nice to think that in the last 10-15 years of my life I have changed a bit, grown up a little, learnt something. But, seemingly, I haven’t. In the early nineties when I was just into my teens there was a new toy on the market, the compact disc. It was catching [...]

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