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1. People who don’t clean up after their dog. When you stand there pretending your doubled up dog is not really pooping *oh is that a bird up there?* and I bring the offending poop to your attention don’t glower at me and be ungracious. I’m trying to assist you to be more dog poo […]

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My wonderful nanna had a number of trinkets that I enjoyed looking at as a child. The most amazing one of all was this tiny elephant (sadly made of ivory) that fitted inside a seed with a tiny stopper

Far more impressive than my nan’s elephant is the work of Russian micro miniaturist Vladimir Aniskin who […]

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Dear Developers and Sustainability Experts
What a bloody stupid idea

Please stick your promotional DVD up your jumper
Yours Sincerely
Squib

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Well not surprisingly we watched Man on Fire first and Wordplay much much later on. I loathe crossword puzzles mainly because I can’t do them. People seem to expect me to be good at them
Surely having a couple of wordy-type degrees means I must know what 24 across (5 letters) a bi-coloured bear is? (Not […]

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While our oldest girl is on camp I am cleaning - no that’s the wrong word - razing her bedroom to the ground. I’ve found all sorts of things in the unmitigated chaos like a porthole to the lost world of Atlantis and the Holy Grail (those Knights Templars knew no one would find it […]

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a post about how much I hate people phoning me, my phone hasn’t rung once
Who would have thought?
Would the same principle apply if I write about how much I hate parking meters in Fremantle? Do I have magical blogging powers?

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(spoilers may follow)
Well thank goodness we didn’t see this at the cinema. It was stressful enough on a small TV. Though whether more stressful for me or MrSquib, who can say (Me: I can’t watch, something’s going to happen, tell me what’s happening, what’s going on? I can’t look. What’s going on? Oh my God, […]

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I always thought segue was spelt segway and furthermore I thought it was named after those little vehicles you drive while standing up. I thought this made sense because they probably change direction a lot

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Comic sans, the beloved font of tween girls and angora rabbits. I agree, it’s got to go
Ban Comic Sans

Thanks WOP for the link

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Last Christmas and birthday (in January) I got quite a few CD vouchers for Mills Records in Freo. Nobody dares buy me a ‘thing’ type gift anymore because over the years I have developed, quite unfairly, a reputation for being fussy and ungrateful
So here are the CDs I bought and what I think of them […]

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