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Boots' law
Posted Apr 13, 2004
You guessed, I didn't get to drink the Chardonnay, well not the one I was suppossed to drink at any rate.
Machines and I are not meant to be friends, I suspect even acquaintances is pushing it.
The man with the van and things called 'tools' arrives.
'Keys?'
I assume he means car keys, after all, we've only just met.
'Coffee?'
'Yer battries flat.'
I do hope that 'battries' have something to do with cars, I don't think I can take personal criticsm today.
'Is that good or bad?'
'Mmmmm, well that depends' says man with van and proceeds to bring out things called toools.
I make coffee anyway. In the background I hear the glorious purr of a motor. Slopping coffee over newly washed floor, I run to embrace glorious man with van.
'It's better then?'
'No, it's not good I'm afraid.'
What does he mean? 'It's not good I'm afraid.' The b****y thing's going isn't it?
'Well it's working,' say I.
'So's all yer lights, Madam.'
Don't you just hate that 'Madam'?
'Well turn them off!'
'They are turned off, Madam.'
He's doing it to annoy me, I know he is.
'So what do we have to do?' As if I could do anything.
'I think it's yer 'lectrics, something to do with the alarm.'
'Can't you disable the b****y alarm...Sir?'
If he could he's not going to after that.
No, it now has to go to hospital and it can't go to hospital until tomorrow because it's ban collie day and it can't go to the local, and cheap, NHS hospital because it has something to do with 'lectrics, so it has to go to private hospital and they can't do anything for at least a week because they're 'up to our eyes in it'.
I wonder if the bus will break down on the way to the job centre tomorrow?
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Give us a break God!
Posted Apr 12, 2004
OK I've had a good holiday. Fair enough I've even enjoyed two evenings of good company since my return. The washing is done, the case unpacked and repacked, the garden still beckons. The house is lightly blown over and the dust has yet to resettle, hair washed and dried, clean underwear discovered; so why should I complain?
Why don't cars start?
It isn't even making that little 'chunk' noise to let me know that there is a life force, albeit alien, buried beneath its bonnet.
That's another thing. I thought bonnets were hats.
I now have to wait for a man with a van and some odd objects apparantly called 'tools'to come and breathe life into this four wheeled creature from another planet.
No doubt if I don't sit in the wretched thing, he will drive past and say it was a hoax call, I believe men with vans and strange objects called tools do that when their ban collie maun days are interrupted.
So I cannot even mow the meadow, and am only afforded this pleasure as I can spy any odd movement outside if I contort by body and tap with one finger.
Keep the chardonnay on hold! I will be there.
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I did
Posted Apr 11, 2004
Run barefoot in the tide that is. With the most gorgeous girl I have ever met. Huge brown eyes, golden hair, long rangy legs and the coldest nose you've ever felt. Sadie and I ran in the Atlantic surf most mornings. Then we had coffee in the beach cafe and she was much admired, she is such a flirt.
Alas our holiday romance is over but I shall return so she can break my heart all over again.
Comments on journal entries are not solicited, I have just decided to use it more.
I have decided a lot of things over the past two weeks.
On tuesday I find a job, any job will do it is only temporary.
I am going to write, properly, and one day I may even get paid for it, who knows? Stranger things happen in life.
For now I have to empty a suitcase, play the dhobi man and mow a meadow.
*waves* to Teuchter...it does get better.
*waves* to Ben...think I may not make it down this weekend. Have to catch up with family I have neglected. We will have another soon.
*waves* to Caerwynn...it may have been grim but it made us tenacious 
take care all
boots
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Running barefoot in the tide
Posted Mar 27, 2004
Probably not but shall be away for a couple of weeks.
Take care all
boots
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Our time is gone
Posted Mar 18, 2004
'I just can't get you out of my head' even though you belong in another thread.
'I just don't know where I went wrong' must surely be a line from a different song.
'You're just like children mother. I have never known two grown ups behave like ten year olds the way you two do.'
But I know it's changed and can never be the same again.
'Yesterday all our troubles seemed so far away'.
'Actually no! Actually!'
What happened? When did the rope that bonded us into long forgotten childhood break?
Did Peter Pan finally realise he had to leave Never Never land, the real land even? Or did Wendy grow up first? I think not, Wendy still has so much growing up to do.
The egg timer sits on the dresser like a complacent Rumpold, friend of the SYWM.
'You're getting confused' he said 'This is not reality this is another world. A world that has no answers… just more questions.
'I'm so tired of questions' she said. 'All I crave is a signpost. I don't care which road I take, but a signpost, no matter how confusing, would limit the choices and help me focus.'
'That’s just student talk, you two will be friends forever.'
I wish so, but I think not. One of us is scared of dying; the other too scared to live.
'It's my death and I will direct it!' The shrill voice that once afforded her the greatest comfort screams for the succour that her numbness cannot provide. She weeps.
They are apart. Their time is gone. The friendship once so special is now clouded by the agendas of others. They vye for positions in the orchestrated space that has become their lives, a space they cannot comfortably share.
'Oh for goodness sake it will be fine by Friday, you two never argue through to the weekend.'
I think it won't be and I cry. I know this time our book is closed.
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