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It's time for my annual whinge
Posted Jun 18, 2006
They're back: cluttering the place up with their sweaty cycle shorts and holier than thou attitudes.
Anything vertical that doesn't move will have a bike chained to it in 30 seconds flat. No railing today is safe!
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Corner Shop
Posted Jun 10, 2006
I've just popped down to the corner shop to buy the Guarniad and another disposible lighter.
In common with corner shops the length and breadth of this land, it's run by an extended Pakistani family.
As the weather today is nice and hot, three of the family's kids - lads aged about 6 to 8 years old - were outdoors playing outside the shop. They were running up and down the pavement shouting their heads off in Urdu. They were having a great time of it.
One was wearing a Rooney shirt, one in a Beckham shirt, and for the third one it was John Terry. Sweet 
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Another tracker down
Posted May 31, 2006
Apparently the Swedish police this morning raided the offices of thepiratebay.org and have seized its servers. That's a bit of a blow 
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Latest reply: May 31, 2006
Schadenfreude is a lovely word
Posted May 21, 2006
Championship Play-Off Final, Cardiff, 21st May, 2006:
Watford 3-0 Leeds 
Poor old Leeds, they face a third season in the second tier of English football. They still don't own their own ground, nor anything else it seems to me, after having to hock the lot when their dash for growth went phut two years ago.
In fact it's going to be worse for them next season, as their two years of parachute payments - worth £7.5million per season - have come to an end.
As for Watford: that's great, they are in the Premiership alongside Sheffield United. This means that I will be able to combine an away match with a visit to my Uncle Dennis and Auntie Helene who live about 4 or 5 miles from Watford's ground.
Result 
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Bad day for an Audi driver
Posted May 6, 2006
Parked on the double yellow lines outside my house there is a very posh looking Audi TT cabriolet.
- It's just been given a ticket by a traffic warden.
- It's been left with it's roof down, and it's pissing with rain at the moment.
Ooops!
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