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Archive > October 2008

Unaware (and unprepared)

A stone
minding its own business in a field
suffocates a plant
- Ivor Cutler
A short poem for my short comings at not putting enough time aside for the blog - bad planning.
I’d like you to take inspiration from the poem, get your creative juices flowing/rushing/whooshing and tell me about other accidents that inanimate objects might have.
Rachel

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The Kitchen

Here at our colourful home of BedZed we’re getting a new kitchen fitted and, as I write, there are things going bump through the wall. This all got me thinking about slightly worrying kitchen discoveries: not that we made any here I’m sure, but those of us who’ve been students or lived in well-cheap accommodation [...]

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Magpie Magic

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told
I saw a couple of magpies on the way to work this morning, and saluted them both, which is what I’ve always done. But, (after thinking ‘ooh maybe magpie superstitions could make a good [...]

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Teething problems

Ok so it was to be expected, or dreaded.  We did have some teensy  teething problems, when The Laundry hit super technology and started our e-commerce site.
Should be all whizzy and carefree this week, but it got me thinking about some tooth nasties.
So I’ve wapped teething problems into the search engine and guess what comes [...]

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