Pre-holiday bonus

Pre-holiday bonus

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Work is a bit odd at the moment. Loads of people are leaving or possibly getting sacked - I'm glad I can get away from it for a week to be honest. We're going to Dawlish next week, with Jane's Mum and Dad. Should be interesting. Anyway, as a pre-holiday bonus, I went to see Mum, David and Jasmine today.…

MGM – Ridge Racer on holiday

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After leaving school, it must've been 1994 or thereabouts, I went on holiday to Burnham-on-Sea with my best friend and his Mum and Dad. In between getting smashed on Newcastle Brown Ale and being accused of rape (another story for another time), we spent a lot of time in the arcade there, the highlight being a big sit-in version of…
MGM – Mew? Two please

MGM – Mew? Two please

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Back in the glorious days of the original black and white (or black and horrible shade of yellow/green, to be more accurate) Gameboy, I owned a game called Pokémon Blue. You may have heard of it. My brother had Pokémon Red and a Gameboy of his own, and while we very rarely battled, we quite often traded Pokémon in an…

Quiet week

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Last week was... quiet, not a lot happened. I found out Barclays closed my bank account because it was inactive, and wanted me to spend £80 on a passport to re-open it. Rubbish. Jane was off for a few days last week, her appendix was grumbling, giving her jip. Poor girl. Next week will be quiet in a different kind…

Animatronic Dinosaurs

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This was originally posted in the Bloggers section on the now-defunct Poopgang forum. Just got back from holiday the other day, we went to Bideford Bay in Devon, it was quite nice. Couple of bad days with rain, but all in all a nice experience. We even saw some animatronic dinosaurs, lovely. I really enjoyed the drive down there -…