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"Gonna get me some cardboard boxes,
Posted Mar 13, 2006
And you know what those boxes are for."
Apparently to enable me to join the middle-classes. Having moved back into a flat I lived in for ten years, (albeit we now own it outright and the other previous occupant has decamped to Peterborough), I am informed I know live in a 'maisonette'! It doesn't get much more middle class than that.
Moving really is knackering, though we managed it on our todd, with a little help from Matthew, the man with a van. But I'm kind of glad to be back at work today, as I can have a rest from the sheer physicality of lumping boxes and bits of furniture.
Not sure I ever want to see the inside of another Ikea for a bit, bt I suspect it will be inevitable.
I also do not wish to discuss rugby or cricket today, though at least Freddie's boys have an excuse. Though I am more than happy to discuss the relative merits of Barcelona, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Charlton.
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In a sense, it all started with a box...
Posted Dec 6, 2005
So says the explanatory blurb accompanying the latest work of Rachel Whiteread at the Tate Modern. I'm *pretty* sure I could have worked that out for myself, being as the entire thing is masses of white plastic castings of boxes.
I suppose it's interesting enough, but hardly 'exciting' as I heard one observer exclaim. It's certainly not on the same level as hsome of her previous work, most noticeably the concrete casting of a house, which I really rather liked.
Overall, we agreed that mostly one expected a giant size Dougall to come along and snarf up all the sugerlumps...
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Latest reply: Dec 6, 2005
Really, Mr Cameron?
Posted Nov 18, 2005
Davide Cameron, prospective leader of the Tory party to Jeremy Paxman:
"You come in, sit someone down and treat them like they are some cross between a fake or a hypocrite."
And exactly why do you think that might be, Mr Cameron? 
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Latest reply: Nov 18, 2005
And when Aussie went there, the cupboard was bare...
Posted Nov 14, 2005
Webb Ellis trophy? Tick
Ashes? Tick
Cooke Cup? Tick.
Missing a few bits of silverware from the trophy cabinets, cobbers. 
Really, if it carries on like this, we'll have to consider whether we don't need to find some better opposition, like Romania or Bengal.
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Latest reply: Nov 14, 2005
Funny old world...
Posted Oct 11, 2005
It was only last week that myself and SLG walked the length of Southend Pier, all 1 1/3 mile of it. The longest pleasure pier in the world. And I suppose it will be again. This isn't the first time it's burned down.
I don't know what made us decide to walk down the pier. I've not done it for years, in fact it seems like a different lifetime when I did.
But I'm glad we did walk down it, as I guess we won't have the chance for a bit. I just hope the Council use the opportunity to do some much needed sprucing up, not least of the trains that run up and down it every ten minutes, though I do think Sir John Betjeman would love the idea of a train at Southend Pier being named after him.
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