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We sold a running machine on e-bay – the people came to collect it today. The lady told Sarah how she had lost a stone and told me and her husband to be careful we didn’t crush her packet of doughnuts which were on the seat as we put the machine into the car!!!

Did an online IQ test today in the office

Came out as 131 – Gifted apparently (just below genius level)

Need I say more?

…and I just got stopped by thr Police!! Outside my own front door for looking a bit shifty.

3 hours previously I had been hobnobing with Princess Anne and Sir David Frost and now I’m a bit shifty!!!

Highlight of the day – we ate dinner with the 4 Poofs of 4 Poofs and a paino fame!!

It took me 3 hours to get to work this morning due to a jack-knifed lorry on the M25. Even though it was no where near where I wanted to be the traffic had backed up to the junction I come off at and everyone was trying to find an alternative route around the carnage.

When I did eventually get near to the office there was another traffic jam due to an accident on the roundabout at the end of the industrial estate involving some arse who had rolled his car.

Parking the car and walking the last few hundred yards I arrive at my desk, open a package of gobo’s (metal discs for lamps to project logos) and found to my horror that the company who had made them had made a mistake. They’re needed for this evening too.

And all this before 11am!!

I did, I did see a puddy tat!

Diesel gets aquainted with George, Mildred and Flo or as he would like to think of them, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner!!

On the way home tonight I saw a sign outside a pub in Beckenham urging us to “Book now for Christmas”.

Last week Sarah went to buy a Birthday card and noticed the shop already had a display of Christmas cards!!

An e-mail dropped into my inbox this evening advertising the Northern Deadhead’s Christmas bash…..

It’s the middle of September for F*cks sake!! God have these people not got a life?

Christmas should be banned until December – wish we were going to Oz again they don’t make any fuss like this over there!!

Before I tell this story I just want to say that 99.9% of the time South Eastern provide a fantastic service.

This mornings 5:56 train from Gillingham was nearly 20 minutes late arriving at Victoria because of “drizzle in Kent”

We went on holiday a few weeks ago and one of our friends came round and fed all the animals for us. A few days after we came back we found a note pushed through the door from the RSPCA asking us to phone them about the cat. We think someone thought we had gone away and left it. Anyway we phoned and didn’t hear from them again.

We also noticed that someone was feeding the cat. A bowl had appeared in the yard and Sarah’s mum saw the cat eating out of it. Over the first week after our holiday we noticed that the cat was leaving more and more food. She has a history of gum infections and eating certain foods can cause the gums to flare up. We took her to the vets and spent £85 on anti-inflammatories and anti-biotics. We also moved the bowl to stop anyone feeding her.

The next day I gave her her medicine and by the afternoon she was eating her food again. in the early evening I saw her climbing over the wall of the garden. When I went out later to find her to give her her medicine and couldn’t find her. She didn’t appear the next morning either and hasn’t been seen since.

We’ve phoned the RSPCA but they don’t have her so we asked them to ask their “informant” if they had taken them. We are still waiting for them to get back to us. Hopefully she will return soon.

In the meantime we have ended up with another cat – we were thinking of getting another one anyway – someone offered him on Freecycyle. He’s 6 months old, called Diesel and is really cute. He has a big black fluffy tail and after an initial period of hiding seems to be now making himself at home.

A few weeks ago our neighbour bought himself a new car. Well when I say new it’s four years old but I guess it could be said to be a bit flash – not to my taste but each to their own.

Since then every time I come home I find the gates to the yard, which are usually left open, firmly shut. Then yesterday 3 security lights were installed each pointing into the yard and at his car. I’m not sure if it’s to protect the car or just to light it so he can see it from his bedroom window at night. I’m surprised he hasn’t painted lines on the ground so he knows where to park it for best effect.

He’s also got a motorbike which every few weeks he gets out of the garage, cleans it then revs it for half an hour or so and puts it away!!!

Men eh!!

So Led Zeppelin are to reform for a one off gig at the O2 arena.

I was kind of interested in going until I found out the ticket prices – £125 each and no doubt there’ll be booking fees to add on top of that. Given that the arena holds 20,000 people that is a turnover of £2.5m for one nights work. I mean why are the tickets so expensive?

I think that this is all getting out of control – the bands who made their names in the hippy dippy daze of the 60’s and 70’s now seem to see their fans as some sort of cash cow to be milked for all we are worth. Ticket prices for re-union shows seem to be going through the roof and greatest hits CD’s repackaging old material seems to be coming out more and more often and getting more and more expensive. Even those bastions of hippyness The Grateful Dead have come in for criticism from some of the loyalist fans in the world for their prices and policies regarding one of the biggest collections of live recordings on the planet.

So I won’t be there to watch Mssr’s Plant, Page and Paul-Jones reliving the past – as much as I would have liked to. I’m content with the fact I saw them 28 years ago and that will have to do.

PS I took the photo at the top -good innit!!

PPS – Apparently over 20 million people disagree with me as that is the number who have apparently registered for tickets in the first 24 hours and the website is still groaning under the weight of people trying to get on