Thursday 28 August 2008

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Festive Spirit

Just placed a Christmas present under the tree. Had a sneaky look at the tag to see whether a shake, rattle and roll was necessary. I was very surprised and somewhat upset to read:

'Happy Christmas to to the best sister in the whole world (and quite a nice brother-in-law).'

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During the week I am a boring IT consultant. However, at weekends, I transform into a massive, dance, trance, garage, hop-hip, mixmaster DJ, spinning vinyl, entertaining the masses at Glastonbury. No wonder I'm so tired every Monday morning.

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I was going to spend Saturday compiling very important guidelines for the formatting, style and content of comments but decided to go and watch the Ladies final and Men's semi-finals at the Surbiton Trophy instead. I packed a lovely picnic (much to the envy of my neighbours), took a proper camera and enjoyed three matches in the sun:
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