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Saturday, December 30, 2006

Lithuania Sucks

Yet another classic encounter with the dirty diving bastards otherwise known as Heart of Midlithuanian. Yet again a stunningly spectacular level of utter shite refereeing from yet another Scottish shite referee. Man of exceptional taste to boot, a Keane fan no less.

Fortunately for us, Nish was not playing, however Peter Leven, his replacement for the day fared no better. I love football me. 2 Points wasted.

Funniest thing I saw at the game though, was the numpty sporting the Lithuanian flag. If he hasn't grasped the damage done by the Loonie Baltic Banker, he must be quite quite mad.

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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Christmas the Aftermath

Growing in depth and beauty with every play.





























Midlake's the Trials of Von Occupanther, fabby.

I've had a remarkably themed Christmas this year, with an abundance of things culinary, both books and gadgetythings. I am going to spend a while in the kitchen methinks.

Christmas day was spent as per the last few, with mumsy. Spent a totally chilled time sipping champagne and cava and cooked duck with roasted (to perfection) potatoes, roasted parsnips and sprouts finished in the frying pan with butter and bacon. I could feel the weight going on with every mouthful. Fortunately, the starter was a light melon and parma ham and the pudding was a simple concoction of poached apricots with fig and hazelnut in a filo pastry served with vanilla ice cream. The one downside of the day was when mrs tnr opened her pressie from mumsy, my face must have been a picture as pressie was a digital camera, which I had also got her arghhhhh!

I'm on holiday for almost 2 weeks, which means I'll spend too much time on this and too much time watching wall to wall repeats of River Cottage.

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Sunday, December 24, 2006

Woe is us

It seems weird having witnessed a display of alleged football, that during the course of watching it I was up and down like a roller-coaster. The game itself was mediocre, both Killie and Motherwell were mediocre, the referee was mediocre, the one saving grace was the brilliance of Stephen Naismith and Gary Hay was pretty good too. Our relief goalkeeper is unbelievably bad, practically guaranteeing whoever we play a goal a game and this man continues his run off bewilderingly inept footballing displays.

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On the social front we have done little, but last night, we had Lady El round for a few cocktails. Determined to leave at a reasonable time, she succeeded, although in what kind of state is another matter. thewife who indulged in a few concoctions has been fairly violently spewing the proverbial ring both last night and this morning and has promised never to let alcohol pass her lip again. I suspect it may have been one Screaming Orgasm too many.

Seasons greetings to one and all.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Feet Up

thewife has been in this place, getting this seen to. She managed to make an early escape and is now sitting at home with her feet up, whilst I potter around cooking n' stuff. Charlie is looking for a new place to sit for a while.

I've had to drive to work and back for the past two days. It's absolutely ages, over a year and a half since I have done this. After tomorrow, it'll be a cold day in hell before I do it again. I forgot how crap it is to sit around in nose to tail traffic for ages, when you could be sitting in the train doing the Guardian Crossword, or at least trying to.


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Monday, December 11, 2006

Te recuerdo Amanda - Victor Jara

I'm so happy, I need to play you all a song.

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Sunday, December 10, 2006

I'm so happy

Fucking Pure Dead Brilliant!

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Saturday, December 09, 2006

Out

The boss's partner works for a diffirent department of the council. Apparently there was a guy in his department who had been on annual leave Monday and Tuesday who hadn't shown up for work on Wednesday and hadn't phoned in sick. His manager eventually phoned him to see if he was alright. Guy on other end of phone asks "Why are phoning me, I'm on strike." Ohboy.

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Monday, December 04, 2006

In

We win, we're not on strike tomorrow and the next day and the day after that. Guess the kitchen will have to wait to get painted. Still good news indeed for those who would have lost up to £ 8,000 per anum after a 3 year protected period. Come January we'll just be fairly skint and not pennyless.

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Sunday, December 03, 2006

High 5s and Low 10s

That's one way of getting the shit goal difference sorted. If only we could played the (way below) Pars every week. Actually the result makes us look good. We were in the first half but the game sort of expectedly went very flat in the second half. Depsite somehow managing to get his name on the score sheet twice (Oh my god imagine a hat-trick!) Nish was still very much pish.

On the strike front it looks like very much on for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week however talks are still taking place. If only they could consistently apply maths, the whole thing could be sorted out very quickly. I personally find it galling for a Trade Unionist to question the overwhelming mandate for industrial action taken by Unison, on the basis that its 10% of the city's workforce holding the rest to ransom. It's compounded by the fact that further down the page it goes on to state "We've addressed the issue of Equal Pay and we've offered a deal where nine out of ten of our staff will either receive increases or see no change in their pay. We're putting in place measure to protect the pay of all of our staff and ensure that no-one loses out at the end of this process." So let me get this correct, that's only 10% of your workforce who are going to lose money?? Frankly if they were to Guarantee the latter part, for life, not 3 years in writing, then it would be a done and dusted deal.

Still, there's good news round the corner. Not long for this earth I hope, and a merry christmas will be had by many, particularly if his chum follows quickly.


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