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Monthly Archives: September 2008

How to impress your mother-in-law to be

September 28, 2008 – 9:50 am

Grannymar’s post on a Woman’s Poem and a Man’s Poem reminded me next weekend two of my best friends celebrate their 12th wedding anniversary. I knew the 25th anniversary is silver and the 50th gold, but I had to check Wikipedia for the 12th. Why would I bother? Well because Pat will call me today, [...]

By Primal Sneeze | Posted in Builders, Characters, Friends, Mothers, Occasions | Comments (14)

When not to let techies near gadgets

September 26, 2008 – 6:18 am

Would you mind setting this up for me, asked ordered the neighbour. You know me and gadgets - I’d just make a dog’s dinner of it.
No hassle, I lied. It’ll probably need charging. I’ll drop it over to you in the morning all ready to go.
Now ladies and gentlemen of the bloggery, this wasn’t like [...]

By Primal Sneeze | Posted in Kids, Mothers, Tech stuff | Comments (19)

The ostman

September 23, 2008 – 6:44 am

You’ve probably realised from the title and some previous stories that I take the P out of the postman quite a bit. Sometimes I get the upper hand, sometimes I don’t.
Why is that? you may ask. Well, I may tell you, we grew up together and have been playing practical jokes on each other since [...]

By Primal Sneeze | Posted in Characters, Friends, Local | Comments (17)

Guess what I won!

September 19, 2008 – 8:58 am

Six hours with a business coach worth, I don’t know, a stocking load of money. More than six hours with a hooker anyway I’d reckon.
My name was pulled out of a hat in a competition run by the local Chamber Pot of Commerce. I didn’t know there was a competition. I didn’t even know they [...]

By Primal Sneeze | Posted in Local, Work | Comments (12)

Earwigged gems #5

September 18, 2008 – 1:22 pm

- What’ll they get into next?
- Who?
- BIC.
- The pen crowd?
- Yeah, them. But they make razor blades and razors too. And lighters. And Tippexy stuff. And glue. And crayons. It was in the paper that they’ve even come up with a mobile phone. What’ll they get into next?
- Condoms?
- Jayzez, could ya imagine the [...]

By Primal Sneeze | Posted in Pub talk | Comments (11)

Snippets #20

September 17, 2008 – 7:53 am

I had a visit from the TV licence inspector. Finally. After writing to An Post many times asking them to stop sending me warnings - I don’t have a damn TV. The inspector’s reaction wasn’t what I expected at all. Apparently more and more are ditching their TVs in favour of other things like reading, [...]

By Primal Sneeze | Posted in Snippets | Comments (11)