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Odd Poems A world in verse.
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Tesco: Taking away without the owner’s permission. In the UK, if some yob drives away with your car, you cannot call it ‘stealing’. As the yob does not ‘intend to permanently deprive you of your property’, it is not ‘theft’, it is ‘taking away without the owner’s permission’. If you buy petrol from a Tesco […] Getting Ready Next month, we’ll be off on a trip … … to Nevada. The one in the USA, for anyone who is not sure. And every week, I’ll be posting a letter. All about who, what and whatever I fancy. I know that I have just said ‘next month’, but a trip like […] The French authorities want to be sure they’re not sending a pension to someone who is no longer ‘alive and well on planet earth’. Hence the form that must be filled in by the authorites here, every six months. There is something reassuring and invigorating about having the lass at the local council office attest […] It is the right of the previous generation to claim that the world is going to hell in a hand-cart. And the current generation, to claim that we are heading for the New Jerusalem. Recently, I had the dubious pleasure of watching an important project stumble and fall, due to poor planning, dubious execution and […] One of the problems, that occur when you run a website, is judging what people think. Responding to feedback. Being receptive to new ideas. It is like being in mid-atlantic, in a rowing boat. Cut off from all the media. No newspapers, radio or television. Trying to figure out the state of the world by […] Writing is the main point of tachras, and it would appear that writing about restaurants and food is not only a literary high-point, but financially rewarding as well … …so here goes. If Michelin Tyres can do it, then so can KidneyStone Tyres. The KidneyStone Restaurant Guide. We’d been there before, several years […] Well, it took a bit of effort, but the book collection is on site. Dave’s Book Collection Total is in excess of 1800 books (more will undoubtedly appear). My original estimate was higher, but I was counting by the inch and a lot of the books are thicker than the older ones. A lot are […] Well, it’s been a helluva week! Insulted by the Managing (barely) Director. There will come a time … Informed by the local council that the road I drive to work (possibly the only really hilly road in the entire county) would not be gritted because of ‘Salt Rationning’. Why wasn’t it gritted when you had […] Thought for the day. Maturity is when you realise that many things in life are unimportant. Old Age is when you stop pretending that they are. If, perchance, you had attempted to find the tachras Forum, you will have ended up here. A little piece of sleight-of-hand, has re-directed you here to Winding Yarn – the tachras Blog. You can make a comment to the various posts, or even (if you have something interesting to say) become a tachras contributor or […] |
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