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mtmcguire · 1 year
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Come with me on a journey through my exciting life!
Obviously, I use the word, ‘exciting’ advisedly, the ironic implication being somewhat the reverse. This week, I have mostly been … running around like a blue-arsed fly! As previously implied, it’s not exciting and sadly it’s not even that funny either. But this is my blog, so I can do what I sodding well like, which means I’m going to tell you about it anyway. On the Mum front … more admin…
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mtmcguire · 26 days
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This week I have mostly been … a bit of a twat.
Yes, I have not covered myself in glory this week, indeed, while I concede I may have come up covered in something, glory is definitely not it. Cf my attempts to laminate bacon (yes, you read that right). But on the upside at least it was funny. More on that story … later. #00A650 … SORRY oops, I mean Sorry. The cat has just sat on keyboard. Where was I? Ah yes. Before we get to the funny bit,…
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mtmcguire · 5 months
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Balls … all of it.
Well, it’s been a long time and I suspect most of you have wandered off, assuming I have disappeared off into the ether. Nope, like a bad smell, I never go away, I linger. I have just … yeh well, to be honest I’ve completely lost the plot. I wouldn’t say I’m actually burning out yet but let’s say … we’re on the red line and there’s definitely an alarming aroma of burning oil and hot metal. Hence…
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mtmcguire · 9 months
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Modern life is rubbish!
This is a blog post I wrote a couple of days ago. I’ve wrestled with my conscience as to whether I should actually post it. Mainly because it’s only going to worry people. I promise we’re all OK, but I do need to vent sometimes. This, being my blog, seems as good a place as any to do that. So it comes with a <rant mode> warning. Naturally, it’s written with a mental voice I use specifically for…
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mtmcguire · 9 months
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Let's talk about pigeons ... beads in shoe soles etc ...
This week, my school friend texted me to say she’d had a successful cancer op. There’s none left and she will do radio therapy. ‘Woot! Fantastic news!’ I started to type. ‘Woot! Bacteria!’ wrote my phone. Fuckinell what is it on? I stopped and tried again. Nope. I have to laboriously type it in, one letter at a time, very slowly in order for it to understand because nothing will persuade it that…
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mtmcguire · 10 months
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We're not at home to Mr Cockup. Oh no, no, no, no.
Except we so smecking are. Mwahahargh! Yes he’s a bit fucked off. I was going to do a post about writing this week—and accompanying things—but the accompanying things got a bit out of hand and so I’ve gone off on a completely non-writing related tangent. Do you remember a refrain from the Blackadder II episode where he’s made Lord High Executioner? ‘We’re not at home to Mr Cockup!’ he tells his…
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mtmcguire · 1 year
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Discombobulation … is the name of the game
Yes, you find me all arse-about-face this week. Well that’s the default state, I grant you, but in this particular instance I’m probably a bit more arse-about-face than usual. One of the difficulties I’ve experienced recently with my blog is that there’s been so much to write about I haven’t really known where to start, so then I’ve just gone a bit droopy and given up on it. The past few weeks…
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mtmcguire · 1 year
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2022 in Focus, career version
This blog post is written over a couple of weeks but I’ve not harmonised the timeline. Instead I’ve left it in as-I-wrote it mode because it seems to read better like that … This week I have suddenly developed sciatica, or at least a trapped nerve but same end result. It just gradually appeared over the course of Wednesday evening as McMini and I watched TV. Yesterday it wasn’t great but I…
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mtmcguire · 1 year
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Enjoy yourself …
It sounded as if the Dalek operator inside was laughing as I did this. OK, it’s a bit of a long one this week because woah! Norcon! What a gas! And I want to give you the low down. Yes, you will remember—if you wade through my outpourings regularly—that last week, through the wonders of modern technology, I was talking to you, in my absence, from Norcon where I was flogging books. Now I’m going…
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mtmcguire · 2 years
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All the things ... so many things ...
All the things … so many things …
This week, by the wonders of technology, I’m speaking you from somewhere I’m not. Yes. I’ve scheduled this post in advance. A LOT has happened this week. Let’s start with an update on, Mum. Mum is in hospital still but she is getting better with each passing day. She has broken both leg bones just above the ankle but I think bruv and I have managed to convince them not to operate. She’s had a…
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mtmcguire · 2 years
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Siberian hamsters and other alarums and excursions …
Siberian hamsters and other alarums and excursions …
Well that was an interesting day. Or perhaps more accurately, morning. But it explains why there has been no blog post until now … that said, ‘now’ will probably be tomorrow (Sunday) in light of what time it is already, and the gargantuan amount of time that the activities of ‘this morning’ involved. Originally, McOther and I were heading off to a car boot and from there to the garage to get his…
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mtmcguire · 2 years
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Spigotry ...
Spigotry …
Yes, I am still alive, although you could be forgiven for wondering if I’ve quietly shuffled off this mortal coil the amount of time it’s been since I wrote a blog post. I suppose the main reason for this is that the mood to waffle about my life tends to hit at the weekends, therefore, if I happen to be Doing Stuff several weekends in a row, the blog grinds to a halt. Case in point, when I came…
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mtmcguire · 2 years
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Still hanging in there …
Still hanging in there …
Still here … 🙂 There’s been a bit of a long break and I thought I should probably pop in here, if only to reassure you that I’m still alive. There is a reason for my absence. First up, I was away on holiday for two weeks, during which I incredibly cleverly managed to get COVID 19. We all had it, the boys for a couple of days each. Me? Like all colds it went on for chuffing ever. First a week of…
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mtmcguire · 3 years
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Urgh! Just kill me now ...
Urgh! Just kill me now …
This week I have been making a very credible attempt to disappear up my own bum. Jeepers, if this is what it takes to visit another country I am never ever smecking going abroad again. And I’m not even the poor bastard trying to organise it. That’s McOther. Suffice it to say that I suspect the gargantuan mound of admin we have to do would compare unfavourably with the amount of forward planning…
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mtmcguire · 3 years
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Another fine mess I’ve got me into ...
Another fine mess I’ve got me into …
Although also … possibly … out of. Too Much Information Alert … OK, this post is, officially, going to begin with Too Much Information. I’m going go talk about one of the last taboos, my monthly cycle. As a lady of a certain age, who is fitted with an … er hem … coil … I have been spared the joy – a word I use with extreme irony – of periods for the last ten years. Gone are the days when, were…
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mtmcguire · 2 years
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This week I have mostly been ... poisoning myself.
This week I have mostly been … poisoning myself.
Yep. Straight up. Don’t laugh. It’s serious … well, OK, it’s not. No. Not at all, really. Today, I have a story to share which, I hope, will make you laugh. It is a tale of such gobsmacking stupidity that I’m almost proud. Yes if you had doubts about my bumbling cockwomblery and general, all-round ineptitude then, I think this morning’s events might possibly put it beyond all doubt. As I write…
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