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Doug Akroyd »

On a knife edge

Posted on 10:48am Friday 13th June 2008

Small talk can sometimes be a dangerous thing.

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Hedging my bets

Posted on 1:04pm Saturday 7th June 2008

Just when I thought nothing else could break in the garden tools area, the petrol hedge trimmer gave up the ghost.

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Tumbling dice

Posted on 1:00pm Saturday 7th June 2008

Two big spills on the mountain bike this week… both within about half a mile of each other.

Doug Akroyd »

The King rules his roost

Posted on 1:05pm Monday 2nd June 2008

Elvis the parrot is causing chaos again. Two men trying to repair a flat roof nearby are having to fend him off with a brush as he swoops in on them as they go about their business.

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Welly I never!

Posted on 1:04pm Monday 2nd June 2008

Big mystery. What happened to my wellies? One minute they were where they should be, the next, after a fatal tidying up session, they were gone.

Doug Akroyd »

Gigs are not so great outdoors

Posted on 1:03pm Monday 2nd June 2008

I’ve come to the conclusion that I may have gone to the last of those big outdoor stadium gigs.

Doug Akroyd »

Wonderful waste

Posted on 1:01pm Monday 2nd June 2008

There’s something very satisfying about digging out your own compost.

Doug Akroyd »

Hot tomato

Posted on 3:17pm Thursday 22nd May 2008

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Doug Akroyd »

Made up, we were!

Posted on 9:25am Friday 16th May 2008

It’s not somewhere I would have immediately thought of as a place to take a teenage visitor of ours from Germany.

Doug Akroyd »

Trouble comes in threes

Posted on 10:18am Monday 12th May 2008

It could have been one of those days.

Doug Akroyd »

Giving me a turn

Posted on 11:32am Friday 9th May 2008

How difficult can it be to indi-cate that you’re going to turn left before you actually start to do it?

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Fare enough

Posted on 11:14am Friday 9th May 2008

In this day and age of spiralling costs of just about everything, restaurants, surely, can’t afford to be taking the mickey out of their customers.

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