Date: 31 July 2010 11:29:12
My absence from this hallowed platform has been merely because I have little to report on recently. Well, obviously, I have LOTS to say, but I'm not sure you'd be wildly interested in the fact that somehow, after weeks of rainlessness in the usually wild and wet West, my front door swelled to such a size that it was almost impossible to shut it... and once shut it was actually impossible to open without someone pushing it from the outside. Which is fine if there is someone trying to get in but not terribly handy if there is no one out there and I am trying to get out. Anyway, the carpenter has solved the problem and normal service has been resumed in that department. (That was the highlight of life on the domestic front...I've spared you the rest..)
On the work front it has been alarmingly quiet although (just in the nick of time before I disappeared through the cracks in the floorboards [the cracks in my floorboards are particularly wide...]) I do now have a project to work on. A fashion website... so if you want to know words for seam, dart, yoke etc, all written with gushing sycophancy, just give me a shout. Actually, the project could be given a whole post of its own because there are various issues to moan about discuss.
I had a few days off to entertain Big Bruv, Big Lad and Northern Star who all came over from Vikingland to do a spot of invading and pillaging. Northern Star was hilarious. I was pointing out a statue of an English saint who was murdered a thousand years ago by some Danes... I think she felt a little defensive of her forbears because her reaction was "Well, he probably deserved it!"
Other than that, life has been un-newsworthy. Perhaps something more exciting will happen next month...but don't hold your breath... it will be August, after all, when the whole of Europe goes on holiday. If you don't hear from me, do come round, step through my easy-to-open front door and check the cracks between the floorboards. I might be down there.