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Not enough storms
Posted Dec 3, 2006
We don't have nearly enough storms you know.
I've taken the opportunity this morning to spend about two hours down on the seafront enjoying the battering of the high winds, and standing amazed at the sight of the steel-grey boiling sea.
The swell as it rolls in is about 10 foot high - and on a high tide to boot - but as it hits the shelf at the start of the beach it rears up to twice that height as a boiling mountain of surf that comes crashing down on to the shingle. It makes a fantastic noise and the air is full of salt spray.
Couple that with a high wind and alternate periods of bright blue sky and then drenching showers, it makes for wild morning.
I've come back home soaked through, about three times over, and having had a thoroughly wonderful time. 
It's back to bright sunshine right now, so I'll probably get a bite to eat for breakfast and then head on up to the park to see what damage the wind has wrought there.
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First crash in the new car
Posted Nov 7, 2006
Two and a half months in, and the inevitable has happened. I've had my first crash in my new car!
This morning as I was maneouvring my wheels off the pavement and on to the road, some bloke decided to go past me and we connected at the momen that my front wheel dropped off the kerb and the car slides sideways.
A dull thump...
He stops and gets out of his car. He looks at his front bumper and frowns. He come over to me and looks at the front corner of my car, and frowns again. He then says, "I can't see any damage at all, mate."
I get out of the car and I have a good look around, and I can't see anything wrong either.
A bit of general head scratching ensues and we come to the conclusion that the inch wide rubbery strip that runs around his front bumper impacted with my front tyre, which of course was turned out on maximum lock as I was trying to get out of a parking space.
A lucky escape all round.
He apologises and says that it was his fault as he was being a bit cheeky in driving past me as I was trying to pull out in such a narrow road. I accept his apology, we shake on it and we go our own separate ways.
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Ten minutes in... a lucky escape
Posted Nov 5, 2006
Against my better judgement, I decided I'd watch this LoTR malarky that starts on Channel4 tonight.
10 minutes in and it's a steaming pile of gibberish. Pretty looking gibberish, but gibberish none the less. This is a lucky escape, it could so easily have been 10 hours of my life that I would never got back again.
I'll watch Alan Titchmarsh and his thing about the British summer over on BBC1 instead 
::click::
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Offers in the region of how much!?
Posted Nov 5, 2006
I suppose it had to happen eventually, what with our crazy house price inflation.
My local estate agent has advertised its first million pound house - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-13480546.rsp?pa_n=3&tr_t=buy
Admittedly it's a very nice house, but I do know of some downsides that won't be included in the details.
- It might be beautifully concealed from the road, but it is bloody busy road. It's the point where two lanes become one on the second busiest route into Brighton. There are two really complicated T-junctions at that point, and it's an all around nasty bit of work - hard acceleration, hard breaking, jumping the lights, posession is twn tenths of the law, that sort of thing. And into this melee, are the entry and exit to this sedate crescent.
- Within 50 yards is the front door to a large University halls of residence. There are students from Brighton University trolling up and down that area at all times of day and night, generally making a right racket and nasty mess.
- You've got me living 4 streets back from you, up the hill 
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I know I shouldn't watch, but it's not my fault
Posted Sep 10, 2006
I know I've described the layout of my office / back bedroom before. But I'll give you a quick reprise as it's important to the subject matter of this journal.
- The computer sits on a grey desk in my back bedroom.
- The desk is pushed up against the wall.
- As I sit at the desk, I'm turned to the left as the screen is positioned on the left hand side of said desk.
- I have a window to my immediate left.
- I can see out of the window with the corner of my eye at all times whilst using the computer.
- My house backs onto another row of near identical terraced houses - window to window is probably around 40 feet.
- These houses are about 15 feet lower down than my house as they are on a road that is further down a steep hill.
Here comes the meat and drink of this journal...
Because of the positioning of me, my desk, the window, the hill and the other houses. I can see straight into the back bedroom of one of these houses: I can see everything in that room.
I've got new neighbours.
A very fit looking young blonde Polish woman has moved into that house. Her bedroom is the one that I can look straight into and see everything. She doesn't believe in curtains at windows 
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