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Do I qualify?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8162389.stm Manchester City Council are meeting today to discuss whether the council should give every household in God's own city £50 to help during the recession. A great idea, and if I still lived there I'd use that money to help support local businesses.... ...Joseph Holt's.....Martin's Bakery etc...
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Surely The Easiest Thing In The World

Chris Brown has annoyed me greatly! He's all over the entertainment press this morning for making a public apology about hitting Rihanna back in February. Since then most radio in the UK has stopped playing his records (no great shame there) and he's been seen, rightly so, as a bit of a thug! Today, he's full of remorse. My favourite nugget is "as I sit here today, I can tell you that I will do everything in my power to make sure that it never happens again. " Surely it's the easiest thing in the world to stop yourself from striking someone you love? I doubt I'm superhuman but I've managed 33 years without battering someone important in my life. I've even managed to avoid pounding somebody I dislike to a pulp.
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A Short Note About Karma

This weekend I started to believe in karma. You know what karma is. The belief that no deed, good or bad, goes unrewarded nor unpunished. I went paintballing for my friend's stag weekend at the Mapledurham Estate in Berkshire. As I was travelling straight from my second job in Newbury I was there well before anyone else and so parked up in an empty car park. After 30 minutes of trying to get a quick kip a carload of Russian gentlemen pulled up beside me. As the driver got out he SLAMMED his door into my car. My little Corsa was subject to bullying of the very highest order! Not so much as a glance from Sergei, no "sorry", no remorse on his face, not even a look from him. What made it worse was that he came back having forgotten something and DID IT AGAIN....TWICE!!!!!!! So his card was marked. I made a mental note of him and promised myself that if I were to give anyone the PJ and Duncan treatment it would be him! Unfortunately, as we kitted up and were allocated colours ...
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Love-In Your Work

Every now and again people in middle management speak to their bosses and their bosses will slip into the conversation the name or names of some dull-witted management training guru they've heard about recently and then the worst thing imaginable happens. Those middle management types, because they have no imagination nor ideas of their own and want to cosy up to the upper eschelons, then read the books of the aforementioned guru and instigate the ridiculous practices they've been told to adopt on their own staff. Today is one of those days when my colleagues and I get the sharp end of this practice as we embark on "The Love-In". The idea behind it is that over the last week or so we've been compiling our own list of things about each other that we really like and we will present these lists later today. So how does that improve the show then I hear you cry? Well.......I don't know! The idea I guess is that if we know what each other likes about us we can...
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Begin Again

Can I recommend "Fat Bloke Slims" by Bruce Byron? I've decided to take the old Weigh In Wednesday seriously, finally, and try losing some weight. With that in mind I went to find some healthy cookery books for single men who live on their own and, surprise surprise, bugger all there but this book caught my eye. The author is an actor (he plays DC Terry Perkins in The Bill apparently) who noticed he was a mere 3 stone overweight and decided to do something about it. It's full of the same advice I've read a thousand times before but, refreshingly, didn't promise to make you slim. He makes it obvious that the first thing you need to do is make the decision, properly to sort yourself out and keep that in mind whenever a food or drink choice comes your way. It's not a manual for success, it's just him telling you what he's done and why. I did find it inspiring. I realise it's only week one but I've started to do at least an hour of exercise a da...
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I'm Not Perving!

I'm waiting for Hayley to try on what she wants at Calvin Klein in the Swindon Outlet Village. Don't know if I feel more of a pervert hanging about for her inside the store or loitering outside staring in! Sent from my iPhone
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This is Heart

More music variety!
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Just a test

Just trying mobile blogging for the first time! This is my desk!
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