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  • A great English summer

    12:29 PM PST, 3/12/2009

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    What ever happened to the great English summer last year. I feel cheated. It was pretty much a wash out. I don't think I'm the only one to be disappointed, but ever the optimist, a little voice inside me says "this year is going to be just glorious" Well let's face it, it can't be any worse than last year. Can it? Anyway, I gave up on the garden last year in September, and just left it. I felt it was a losing battle. But this year, it will be different... Oh yes it will! I am going to have a go at some veggies. This idea has been brought about by the state of the economy, and the distant memory of once planting some spuds that had been left to grow long green fingers in the kitchen. It was really exiting when those wrinkly old spuds turned into lots of nice new potatoes, just like you buy at the shops, but somehow they tasted so much better, and they didn't cost any money really. Just a bit of digging, and playing with dirt. So let's hear it for the great English summer. An incomparable delight. Out with the barbeque's, and the Fleetwood Mac CD's. A few good friends, and some solar lights and all those groovy kinds of things. Oh my, I think I've got long hot summer syndrome :) Anybody else dreaming like me?
  • Rollerblading in Kharkov

    11:07 AM PST, 4/28/2008

    I thought I would have a change of tack from griping about decorating. Since the last comment I had was that I ought to spend less time breaking my arm in the Ukraine. What has this got to do with eBay business. Not a lot but it helped me pay for my trip to Kharkov.

    I do know that there are some Ukraine sellers on eBay. So

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    I will be coming back to Ukraine. Probably Kiev.

    I'm trying to learn Russian language, so anybody out there who can speak some Russian and some English. Let me know, and we can maybe talk on skype. Drop me a line.

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    thegreymouse1

     

     

  • Decorating, don't you just love it?

    7:31 AM PST, 12/11/2007

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    I don't know about anybody else, but I have to say that decorating is the most soul destroying thing to do. Maybe I'm just getting old and cranky,  but this sticking wallpaper up is a bind and a chore, with no real sense of satisfaction at the end of it, because by the time you have actually finished and picked up all the rubbish, cleaned up and picked all the bits of paper that are stuck to the bottom of your shoes, you are so ratty with the whole issue that any sense of acheivement has completely negated by the trial you have undergone in the preceeding process.  Or is it just me?

    If you like decorating.  you can do mine anyday. But I won't pay you cos I'm to tight fisted.

    There; I feel better now I've got that off my chest