Recent Content by rottweilsteve

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    Should I have gone to Specsavers?

    Probably not: of all the opticians I've seen Specsavers were the absolute worst, two for the price of one offer notwithstanding. I ended up with distance glasses that were so out of whack that I could do the registration number part of the driving test better without the glasses than with them...
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    Hampshire workmen paint white lines around dead badger

    A motorbike can easily be parked in a space a metre wide...
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    Cholesterol numbers?

    I make my own bread - Panasonic's SD255 model is lhe best thing since thinly sliced chorizo replacing bacon in a pea and ham soup. I use organic flour from Bacheldre Watermill (google them) - once you've spent £25 quid with them, postage is free. Using the basic recipes in the book, add between...
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    What do you do for a living?

    If I'd made the right choices when I sorted out my A levels (instead of trying to p*ss off my father), I'd be doing something in nursing, but that wasn't really an option for Geordie boys in the seventies. Come to think of it, me as matron would have p*ssed him off too... Ah well... I've worked...
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    London Gay Pride

    Take as your analogy HIV. Now before everyone gathers up theirs skirts in a hissy fit (not that I expect them too, but I do like the image!) about how diabetes is nothing like HIV, in the dark days of the eighties, when everyone had a funeral to go to every week, our shining hope was that that...
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    London Gay Pride

    In the words of the anonymous gay steel worker in the Simpson's episode Homer's Phobia: "Oh, be nice". A lot of people feel self-conscious when there's something different about them, and being gay and being diabetic definitely fit into the category of different. The trick is to ignore the...
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    Do you speak Welsh?

    There's a whole collection of errors at http://www.flickr.com/groups/scymraeg/pool/
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    Whats on your MP3 Player???

    Mine sits in a docking station/alarm clock, so I get sung to sleep every night and woken by music I like. Next ten songs up are: The Cure - The Lovecats David Bowie - Let's Spend the Night Together T Rex - Casual Agent The Cure - Why Can't I Be You? Cocteau Twins - Fluffy Tufts Tyrannosaurus...
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    London Gay Pride

    And I'm delighted to see you back! How have you been? You set me to thinking: okay I was happily married (to a man: it was very romantic - we exchanged wedding rings outside HS Samuels in Peckham Rye. No reception, just shopping in Safeways) for most of the past ten years. Soon after that the...
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    Migraine any ideas

    I had my first classical migraine at the age of ten or so, so I've more than plenty practice in dealing with them. After years of diet watching, it occurred to me that the common scenarios were for me to be extremely anxious about something, very, very tired, especially emotionally, or to be...
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    THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY....

    Isn't it weird the way white cows seem to glow in the dark? And as for Jack Russels... Years ago, a Jack Russel nonchalantly walked underneath Zeus, looked up, and bit poor Zeus right on the willy! Kent needs to be flattish to merge into the English Channel, while we get to stay all bumpy and...
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    Books of influence in your life

    Rachel Pollack's "Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom", which was the first "heavyweight" Tarot book I ever read. I've read many others since, some better, most of them not as good, but none of them has carried that "aha!" feeling that persisted as I read 78 Degrees.
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    "Compliments of the Season" or How do we get through this?

    I wish xmas and new year were my only worries - my birthday's in January, so for me the new year hasn't started till my birthday is out of the way!
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    THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY....

    My dog, the Princess B'Elana, Queen of the <there's usually an 18-rated word in this space but I think most of us can guess what it is> Universe. An elderly, dysplastic, arthritic rottweiler who despite her health problems loves every human being on the planet and most other dogs, except for...
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    Music Music Music!

    First single with my own money (as opposed to birthday/xmas presents) was T Rex's Ride a White Swan First album was probably Electric Warrior and first concert was T Rex touring in support of Electric Warrior. Between then and now includes Tangerine Dream, Curved Air, Van der Graaf Generator...