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Everything that starts with W ...

This is a review I wrote a while back, but I have now updated it (October 2008) - it's a long one so be warned. Since this is a Cafe piece, although I have said it is about Workington (where I live), that bit comes after the journey I took getting to Workington! How I ended up in Workington ... Read review

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Workington and how I came to live there....

Advantages: Workington is a great place to live!
Disadvantages: The year and a half before moving there!

This is a review I wrote a while back, but I have now updated it (October 2008) - it's a long one so be warned. Since this is a Cafe piece, although I have said it is about Workington (where I live), that bit comes after the journey I took getting to Workington!



== How I ended up in Workington ==

=== Leaving University and Best Laid Plans ===

I had it all planned when we left Hull Uni in ...
...doing social research. Hubby (then fiancé) would carry on working in Hull for a brief time until he found a job in the South of England. We would then buy a house, get married and live happily ever after! Best laid plans…..

At first things were OK. I was still technically a student as I had my Master's dissertation to complete. I sent numerous letters and applications for jobs, and received numerous rejections. There were interviews ... more

marymoose99 05.01.2007 (20.10.2008)
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Watch batteries & repairs

Advantages: Save money, do a better job, easy to do
Disadvantages: Not advised on expensive watches

This review hasn’t just been created for the reason of saving money but more on avoiding being ripped off from an industry not usually known for this. A number of years ago my wife gave me as a present a lovely Citizen watch, it was a chronograph style with a moon phase feature, stop watch & alarm. The alarm was particularly helpful as I travelled a lot & it saved me carrying a travel clock. Around six months after the guarantee expired the watch ...
...at Ernest Jones who looked at it & told me it would need to be sent back to Citizen. Around a week later I received a call form the jewellers explaining the watch needed a new movement & it would cost £75.00. I didn’t budget for that & couldn’t afford to splash out that sum of money at the time so I asked for them to send the watch back & was charged £15.00 for the privilege. One of my ex work colleagues knew a friend who repaired clocks & he looked ...

ScottishWestie 04.03.2009 · Read full review
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Pete Waterman: Explain that, Richard Dawkins

Advantages: He's not as dangerous as Phil Spector (allegedly)
Disadvantages: He's nowhere near as good. Definitely.

Permit me a 50th review indulgence. I did have something else prepared, but on reflection 'prepared' wasn't really the word. A simple album review (Belle & Sebastian's 'The Boy With The Arab Strap', for what it's worth) spiralled horrifically out of control, and so I've chopped it up and have attempted to salvage the wreckage. One section in particular, where I considered the hilarious 1999 Brit Awards incident when B&S infuriated the subject of ...
...New Act prize…well, my attempt to contextualise said gent's qualifications for judging popular culture took on a life of its own, and now it lives here, in the café...like dry rot creeping up from the skirting board. This is what happens when I get a head of ranting steam up. I'd love to say that this was a serious attempt to illustrate how memory plays tricks on you: you might think the charts are full of crap now, but even when you thought they ...

greenierexyboy 21.11.2008 · Read full review
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When Chelli met Ossie...

Advantages: The opportunity to praise a legend for the last time.
Disadvantages: So sad to see the big man go.

...Peter Osgood. Ossie epitomised everything that was fashionable in South-West London in those heady days, and the Kings Road set turned up in their thousands to see the great man play. I was fortunate enough to see Ossie play twice in his last season at Stamford Bridge before club politics saw him shipped out to Southampton. And he was everything I'd dreamed him to be. An awesome centre forward with immense strength, Ossie was also the most subtle, ...
...one of those days when everything fell into place, and if there'd have been a lottery draw that night I'd probably be a millionaire right now! The one thing that stood out was just how easy the big man made me feel. He knew I was in awe of him but he never milked it one bit. Ossie was a man who shared a common love with me in the shape of a football team that he'd been talented enough to grace. In the short while he sat with me, I could have been ...

paulmiceli 02.05.2006 · Read full review
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What A Year, My Year On Ciao!

Advantages: I think i've given some good advice
Disadvantages: I still think my writings awful

...away cost us pretty much everything we had come accustomed to, we came home to a year of being absolutely penniless. But in October 2005 I found Ciao, believe me or not through the discovery of Ciao I fell into a chain of good luck that continues to this day ........ Touch wood (hitting head)! Lucky from a certain point of view, unlucky from another; please read on and take heed. October 2005 While doing a days filming in London where I stood ...
...with someone who said they did surveys on Ciao. Being absolutely broke I decided every penny counts and signed up on the site. I had heard of Ciao but been alien to it's wonders, I signed up waiting for the surveys to come rolling in. On my original joining night I looked through the site and discovered that a number of movies I loved were on the site but had no synopsis. Still being thick and not paying full attention I wrote a list of synopsis ...

sghawken 21.10.2006 · Read full review
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Writing

Advantages: who knows?
Disadvantages: endless, to me.

I have no title for this. It's against my better judgement, but I think I just have to lighten up. Richard - I've made some very minor editorial changes, do see if it sounds better to you; it does to me. Kirsty, Ro - cheers, ladies. Hope you still like it! Ignore ratings, as usual. Here goes: Crash! Went the light of the waning sun As the boy with blue eyes who liked to run Lay on his back and sang three cries As the girl with the brown eyes ...
...twilit dusk Lying safe in the scent of perfume and musk Rolled up tight like a spinner’s skein Tangled up in the coyness of love again Zoom! Went the stars as they spun the sky With the constellation’s bedtime lullaby And the tiniest spark of a lover’s salvation Is coiled in the heart of sated jubilation. I took my hand from the page, and left the words there, hanging in the yellow glow of the lamp coming from the hallway. The ink was surprisingly ...

ruth_cole 15.04.2004 · Read full review
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ABC the A-Z of me

Advantages: you will learn boring stuff about me
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, and am never good at them, cos as soon as I get angry I start to cry!! R is for Rhys, he is my son and he's 10 yrs old. If it wasn't for him then I wouldn't be where I am today.I love him so much it hurts. S is for Stormy, she is my dog, you know the one I run around picking up poo all day for! She is black and is a Labrador. T is a condition I have called Trichiliomania U is for Understanding,I think i'm an understanding person,well I always try hard to be. V is for Violence, domestic violence or any other kind of violence. There is no excuse and it must be stopped now. W is for Worrier, thats me always worrying about everything! I have already started worrying about next xmas! X is for eXasperated cos I couldnt think of anything! Y is for Yolk on my face after writing this clap trap! Z is for ZZZzzz! go ...

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Baby all i want for xmas is ................

Advantages: Posh wrapping paper , twinkly lights & PRESSIES!!!!!!!!!!!
Disadvantages: NOPE CANT THINK OF ANY !

I love Christams so much its my favourite time of year everyone tells me to stop wishing the year away but its sooooooo hard ! I love everything Xmas i now its early & i know sme people are very Anti-Xmas but i have no clue why ? I have always had an excellent xmas ecer since i was a baby suppose my mum & dad spoil me but dotn suppose they could help it me & my sister being such angels ;-) an all . What set this review off was that lovely snow the other day, not sure if you all got it but us here in the east mids certainly did & it set me off that much i hurried down to Big W to start my Xmas shopping it was a 10% sale on everything & also a 3 for 2 thing so how could i not go! Well enough about my shopping axperiences i do enjoy xmas shopping but it dont half give me a headache! Well enough about my shopping for other people ...

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