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Getting creative with office supplies - #3: paper clips

It's been a slow week.

#2: staples
#1: Blu-tak

The last cigarette I smoked was two years ago exactly. A half-cigarette at 7AM to be precise - a helpful trick from Alan Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking to ease withdrawal symptoms on the day you quit.
It has not been particularly easy, but since all the conditions were either right or carefully planned, it [...]

I have not got much luck when it comes to visiting the little boys' room at work now, have I?
First there was the logged log.
Then, last week, as I sitting on the throne and texting a mate, somebody opened the door I had left unlocked (a bad habit I picked up since living with Dr [...]

One week into my thirty-ninth year of age, my body has decided to cruelly remind me of the passing of time. The nagging backache that started in early December turned into an unbearable pain that had me wandering restlessly from couch to bed to floor over the last weekend trying to find a position that [...]

Bodybuilding.com - Exercise Guide Database! Learn the proper form to ALL exercises! Pics and Videos!
Search for exercises and learn the correct form with picture and video guides! Get the best results possible and stay safe while lifting.
(categories: exercise fitness health weights gym)

AbcBodybuilding
Directory of exercises divided by body part, with freakish Flash animations
(categories: health exercise weights [...]

Rich chocolate cake mix? Yeah, you wish. That is Dr B's grout for the bathroom floor tiles, mixed in a salad bowl with a wooden spoon and spread in between the tiles with a non-stick frying spatula.

And then we wonder why we never have anyone over for dinner.

Marcus' birthday party last Saturday. Fantastic fingerfood and some (most) of South London's (and Nottingham's) sexiest men.
Might have been the food, might have been the men, but I found myself smearing some dip on my lips and pretending to have been bukkake-d on. I also kneeled on a couch wiggling my booty out in the [...]

I'll probably regret this. I am about to lose any credibility left. I am such a muppet sometimes. Don't think I'm proud of this. But:
Saw Sideways (which by the way I totally recommend). Thought I was going to watch a movie with Billy Crystal and Kevin Bacon. Realised some time into the movie that they [...]

Popping out to the new IKEA store in Edmonton. If we're not back by dinner time send a search party.

UPDATE: So, IKEA Edmonton. Perhaps as a consequence of the opening night stampede, there is security standing around everywhere. A bit too late maybe?
And the store takes up a much larger area of other IKEAs in [...]

CuteLittleBlokes Bear Cartoons
Send a photo of yourself and have it turned into a cute little bloke caricature
(categories: cartoon bear)

The annoying crazy frog ringtone. Di-ding ding ding ding wroom-wroom. I still have not heard a single mobile phone using it. Just a lot of hype?
Here is the story of how it started, as a joke from a Swedish guy.
And now it is to become a chart single.
And now Sweety the Chick has jumped [...]

One of my Christmas cards was delivered yesterday. The absurdity of it all is that it's the one that was meant to travel the shortest distance (addressee's flat is ten minutes away on foot).
It was marked "Missent to Guyana". No other explanation or apology.
I'd sent it to my friend Guy. See? 'Guy' / 'Guyana - [...]

Getting creative with office supplies - #2: staples

Getting creative with office supplies - #1: Blu-Tack

So it's Ash Wednesday and for the first time I have decided to follow the great British tradition of giving up something for lent. Funny how I never heard of it when I was living in France and in Italy. Or perhaps I was mingling with particularly heathen circles.
The most obvious choice was to give [...]

I'm crap at this, and yet I'll have a try

I'm crap at this, and yet I'll have a try
At doing what he does so well for mates;
Namely, to make these few words soar and fly
While birthday cake is dished out on the plates.

He's thirty-*cough* today, would you believe?
Seasons have only gently kissed his face;
His boyish [...]

So that's it: I have given up my flat and officially moved in with Dr B.
As of last night I do not have a place for myself to retreat to if I ever wanted to be on my own (not that I ever felt I needed that in the past two years, mind you).

It still [...]

Do you know your awareness bracelets?
A colour-by-colour guide to the multitude of rubber wristbands, from yellow for testicular cancer to orange for self-harm.
(categories: wristband awareness support livestrong cancer)