Buggered if I know…

Use to be a time when the letters ‘QE’ were reserved for the grand lady, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the II.
Latterly they have been adopted as an acronym by economic commentators as short hand for the monetary policy action called Quantitative Easing. Now - monetary policy, fiscal policy, and the like, are only terms understood [...]

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Here it is: the next in the occasional series of posts on the subject of bogroll holders.
Only two days ago, I came across a strange phenomenon. This time it was at our local, relatively posh, leisure centre.
The loo in the female changing rooms upstairs has a LTRD which has, in the past, bitten me. [...]

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“We hear you Tranquillity Base, let’s solve it by borrowing more money…”
Is this the madness we are currently seeing?
I must disclose that I saw/heard some commentator make the very tongue in cheek observation that went something like:
“isn’t this clever - the original problem was caused by debt - so lets borrow more money to fix [...]

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Reader of these posts may have noticed that in the past I was musing about the point of lockable toilet roll dispensers (LTRDs). A kind of follow-up to those broodings was vouchsafed to me the other day when I visited the loo at the end of the corridor at work.
There was the LTRD on the [...]

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This fits in the *super cute* category…

Visualisation?
Floating about, happily, in the ’sea of reality’… what about holding hands with everyone you meet?
(of course, ‘not allowed’,.. but why?…)
We are all here, together, in reality, at this moment…
A briefly passing moment…
A great video re-mix - from the original…
Thanks Jane!

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Bog roll, toilet paper, bathroom tissue. Call it what you like; we all use it. Well, most of us …
In fact, it used to be the case in the ‘good old days’ in Egypt that, when you went to visit an interesting site which had been open to the public for years and [...]

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I think this post will have a point, or maybe even two… eventually…
Unrelated thinking says I’ve seen a few hedgehogs tonight - neat - they are the cutest of critters. One was right on the white line as I was coming down the street to the house, driving in the dark, tonight. It was [...]

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Just mind wandering here… a small infestation of flying ants has surfaced from beneath the house it seems…
They are coming up outside beside the bins and in here beside the fireplace… they are really beautiful if you look closely… so delicate, honed to purpose, and gentle…
The one who has been entertaining itself on my laptop [...]

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Welcome back!
I missed ya!
Your antics, and your haste…
No time to waste now groovers,
not now…
The tree frames are on show.
Welcome back,
you crazy looking punk rocker!
Looney tunes is just pretending…
No pretending here,
as the fog rolls in,
this is the real thing,
serious stuff,
these seasons cycles bring.
Welcome back!
The cutest of english ‘rats’…
Missed ya, and all ya’ fluffiness.
No time for fun [...]

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My subject today, gentle reader, is shampoo.
When I was a kid, we used to go to Germany to visit relatives every summer. This brought me into contact with the German language from an early age. Maybe it was that which engendered my interest in the way words are used, or maybe I inherited it [...]

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