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Wednesday October 16th 2013 All excitement here yesterday morning, I started work on a window display for the shop and laid the first cardboard mock up of the idea into the window space. It will be a Gauge One coastal terminus of idiotically tiny proportions. The strange thing is that it in many ways it has ended up echoing the "Marshcastle" terminus that I built for my shop window at Brassknocker Basin and I think the contractors involved may well be the same firm as before, Light, Weight and Flimsey, a firm of great repute hereabouts. Postscript: As of December Light, Weight and Flimsey still haven't turned a sod - someday soon hopefully.... Whinge drinking, a great new idea for social drinking in these cash strapped times, here's what you do: Pick a few like minded friends, decide on a suitable hostellry (this is luckily easier than it ever used to be because they are closing down in droves) repair to selected hostellry with your group of like minded individuals, order a drink each and then retire to a dark corner to: Discuss the council's brilliant new plans to close all the public toilets Congratulate our glorious politicians on another wheeze to completely rearrange another organisation that is working perfectly well (so that it doesn't - obviously) Ponder upon the incredibly reasonable price of parking your car in (insert town of preference) Contemplate the huge visual pleasures that one gets on a daily basis from the tasteful colour schemes of "First Group" buses Marvel at the incredible simplicity of buying railway tickets on our wonderful privatised railway system Wonder why Jeremy Vine isn't popular and wish that we could all hear much more of his melifluous tones on the BBC Wonder whatever happened to Steve Wright in the afternoon, he was so utterly sincere and hilarious with it. Wonder why Chris Evans doesn't stop being so darned entertaining and just tell us all about his fast cars, wife, dietary requirements, shoe size, fast cars.... Gosh the BBC is so good to us, how do they do it all for the money? Look forward to much better illuminated daytime driving courtesy of all those brilliantly dazzling LED lights that now have to be fitted to all new cars. Discuss which nice energy supplier to switch to to avoid the nasty price rises of all the other nice energy suppliers. Hang on a moment that won't make any difference will it? Hey Dave - come back here a moment, we don't understand what you just said.... Oh how we laughed, and we hardly spent anything.....
Note: Eagle eyed readers will spot that this is a bit of a cheat, I have merely paraphrased a recent home page and stuck it into my blog archive. It seemed a shame to lose the "whinge drinking" idea, but then again I don't want to get a reputatation as a whingeing old twerp - well not quite yet anyway....
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