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WriteFree women's writers group 2008 anthology is out!
My copy arrived in the post this morning!
Have you got yours yet?
They got some old hack to do the cover for them.
S'alright I s'pose.
;-)
Have you got yours yet?
They got some old hack to do the cover for them.
S'alright I s'pose.
;-)
18th Oct 2008, 23:48
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The "tooth" of November
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November will have teeth, apparently.
I delivered 16 pallets of advertising inserts to a small industrial unit yesterday, one-man operation. 200,000 copies per pallet, that's 3.2 million altogether. There'd been a printing error on one of the inside pages. This feller had to unpack all the bundles, find the page at fault, place a sticker containing the correction over the offending paragraph and bundle them all up again.
3.2 million times, before the "tooth" of November.
Good luck mate!
I delivered 16 pallets of advertising inserts to a small industrial unit yesterday, one-man operation. 200,000 copies per pallet, that's 3.2 million altogether. There'd been a printing error on one of the inside pages. This feller had to unpack all the bundles, find the page at fault, place a sticker containing the correction over the offending paragraph and bundle them all up again.
3.2 million times, before the "tooth" of November.
Good luck mate!
18th Oct 2008, 08:32
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The Salmon's nose (as they say over here)
Brand spanking new FH 16
660bhp!
€120,000,- to you sir, including the leather EVERYTHING inside.
Unfortunately not mine.
It, and 2 others just like it, was being prepped for delivery at the Volvo garage while I was there with my (now decidedly inadequate looking) FH12 440
I wasn't able to persuade him to let me "borrow" it for a couple of months.
660bhp!
€120,000,- to you sir, including the leather EVERYTHING inside.
Unfortunately not mine.
It, and 2 others just like it, was being prepped for delivery at the Volvo garage while I was there with my (now decidedly inadequate looking) FH12 440
I wasn't able to persuade him to let me "borrow" it for a couple of months.
16th Oct 2008, 15:54
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And I thought I had a biggun!
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. . . . but then I don't have a feller walking behind me steering the rear wheels.
He was attempting to get onto a building site, Moerdijk, south of Rotterdam,
Even I could see, sat there waiting for him, that there was no way he was going to make the turn through the gates, colleague assisted rear-steer or no.
He had to back out again in the end.
He was attempting to get onto a building site, Moerdijk, south of Rotterdam,
Even I could see, sat there waiting for him, that there was no way he was going to make the turn through the gates, colleague assisted rear-steer or no.
He had to back out again in the end.
16th Oct 2008, 09:48
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The healthier option (for once)
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That's Bran flakes with fresh fruit, Muller-light and black coffee.
Disgusting, how's a man supposed to live on that?
:-)
Disgusting, how's a man supposed to live on that?
:-)
16th Oct 2008, 08:02
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Lucia de Berk wins the right to a re-trial!
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(photo is of Lucia's family after hearing the court's decision)
(photo; Martijn Beekman)
After so many months and years of fighting her corner Lucia was released from prison last April pending a judicial review of her case.
Link HERE to a summary of the developments to date (in English).
Last week it was confirmed that she should be granted a re-trial.
Since the most important piece of the Public Prosecutor's evidence has been completely discredited there appears to be very little left for them to throw at her.
The date has yet to be confirmed, the venue is the court of Arnhem.
Hopefully a formality but you never know with these things, there are still a great number of careers that need protecting, reputations on the line, pensions to be safeguarded, back-scratching to be done.
It's dirty, it's mean, it's bordering on the mediaeval.
And very few people seem to care that this is the state of affairs we live in.
THIS COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE!
(photo; Martijn Beekman)
After so many months and years of fighting her corner Lucia was released from prison last April pending a judicial review of her case.
Link HERE to a summary of the developments to date (in English).
Last week it was confirmed that she should be granted a re-trial.
Since the most important piece of the Public Prosecutor's evidence has been completely discredited there appears to be very little left for them to throw at her.
The date has yet to be confirmed, the venue is the court of Arnhem.
Hopefully a formality but you never know with these things, there are still a great number of careers that need protecting, reputations on the line, pensions to be safeguarded, back-scratching to be done.
It's dirty, it's mean, it's bordering on the mediaeval.
And very few people seem to care that this is the state of affairs we live in.
THIS COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE!
12th Oct 2008, 09:32
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Just a formality
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I've been sat in this police station for an hour now.
The place is empty, quiet, like being in a church on a Monday afternoon.
I had to come back from England especially to report here. As quick as I could, get to Nijmegen, then jump in the car, drive home, about 30 miles, and the woman pc here just said to me "we're extremely busy at the moment, couldn't you come back tomorrow?"
NO
. . . . . . . after two hours I'm away from there now and at the bank. A lot more positive here, she's just got to enter 16 cases of card-misuse, one at a time, each one is a seperate crime as far as they're concerned.
But there's coffee!
:-/
The place is empty, quiet, like being in a church on a Monday afternoon.
I had to come back from England especially to report here. As quick as I could, get to Nijmegen, then jump in the car, drive home, about 30 miles, and the woman pc here just said to me "we're extremely busy at the moment, couldn't you come back tomorrow?"
NO
. . . . . . . after two hours I'm away from there now and at the bank. A lot more positive here, she's just got to enter 16 cases of card-misuse, one at a time, each one is a seperate crime as far as they're concerned.
But there's coffee!
:-/
7th Oct 2008, 16:17
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drowning me sorrows (?)
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Can't afford it really I suppose, specially on this boat, Rotterdam to Hull, P&O; charge ridiculous prices.
Best just stick to the one.
Well, two then.
Best just stick to the one.
Well, two then.
5th Oct 2008, 19:42
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