05 Jan 12 Nine Female Words
(1) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.
(2) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.
(3) Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.
(4) Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don’t Do It!
(5) Loud Sigh: This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to # 3 for the meaning of nothing.)
(6) That’s Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That’s okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.
(7) Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or faint. Just say you’re welcome. (I want to add in a clause here – This is true, unless she says ‘Thanks a lot’ – that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say ‘you’re welcome’. That will bring on a ‘whatever’).
(8) Whatever: Is a woman’s way of saying F— YOU!
(9) Don’t worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking ‘What’s wrong?’ For the woman’s response, refer to # 3.
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28 Dec 10 Cranford Park
In most urban areas, parks and rural areas are quite precious, particularly to the local inhabitants. Cranford Park, with St. Dunstan’s Church, is one of those places, situated with the M4 motorway to its immediate north, and Heathrow Airport barely a mile to the south.
The River Crane runs through the park, and a ford once crossed the river here, about where it goes under the present Bath Road. From this comes the name Cranford.
Records show that a church has been on the current site of St. Dunstan’s within the park, since the 7th or 8th century, when it would have been a Saxon building.
Cranford is mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086, produced under the orders of William the Conqueror.
The land forming the estate of Cranford, and the current park, changed hands several times down the centuries.
The Berkeley family owned Cranford Manor Estate for some 300 years, from 1618 until 1918, when the estate was sold to Middlesex County Council.
In 1945 the Manor House was demolished. It hadn’t been bombed in World War II, but a number of nearby bombs aimed at Heston Aerodrome had left it in a weakened condition.
The present park was opened as a Public Open Space in 1949.
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29 Apr 10 Do You Read On The Job?
OK, I’ll admit it. I was messing around with my phone in the bathroom. No, dear reader, nothing obscene. I was just sitting there with my Droid, and decided to take a photo of myself. I posted it on Facebook, basically because I could.
Anyway, it led to me to thinking that taking one’s smartphone into the bathroom, is probably more efficient and certainly tidier than the old way of having a magazine rack, which invariably became full of publications that you’d read several times.
This was because every time you sat down, you vowed that you’d have a clear out of the old magazines, and add some new ones, but by the time you got up and left, you’d forgotten all about the task again.
Having one’s smartphone in the restroom, means you get to read up-to-date news, or your email, or tweet, or, even, write blog posts like this one. Perhaps music or podcasts are your thing, or perhaps you like to take in a little YouTube or even TV viewing while doing the doo?
Oh, and come on, it’s the 21st century. I am aware that some folks just go in, do it, and get out, but it’s not exactly a secret that for some of us, a read is a must. I’ve taken something in the loo with me even since I was a young child, and I used to my mother mad because I’d lock the door and sit and read Denis The Menace in my weekly copy of the Beano.
Well do you? Are you an in-and-outer, or a reading lingerer. Let me know your thoughts.
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