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You might be aware that shoplifting costs an estimated £335 million to the UK economy. I don't do that much shopping in department stores but I was at Lidl today when a woman right in front of me reached over to the little temptation alley, the area by the till where they offer you all sorts of things you forgot you needed, and put it in her pocket. She had a suspicious smile on her face, more...

Françoise and myself have as we used to say been 'living in sin' for the last 10 years. Now is the time to become regularised which we are going to do through a Civil Partnership. Until recently, these used to be only available to people of the same sex but now this procedure is available to anyone as an alternative to a church marriage.  For those thinking of it, we will be walking you through...

With coming up to 900 entries - actually 894 and  640,400 words (587,287 words in War and Peace) this has definitely become a habit, very unusual as a discipline for a Gemini, for ever looking for new stimuli. I can give a number of reasons or perhaps rationalizations why I write. # it's a very good way of venting emotions # it's a good way to emotionally stabilise myself # writing down how I...

This is the person I referred to a few days ago in my diary, the person who drinks an estimated 40 pints per week. The time is 10 o'clock and the place is Wetherspoon's. This time they don't have anyone with them. This evening I went to my men's group, this time held in a traditional cottage in Coleford which is somewhat South of Radstock. There was no particular subject for the evening except...

Do the two go together? Sometimes. I have been very lazy yesterday and today and making some plans for our forthcoming London visit.  Meanwhile, in spite of the wind and rain or perhaps because of it, our darkness slowly springing into lifeFrogs always come back to the same place to spawn and they were undeterred by the netting that covers the pond to stop birds eating the gold fish. Humble...

So off we go on the coach after our four night stay in the Britannia Hotel, Leeds Bradford.  Our trip from Yorkshire to Bath was quite long; we left at 9:25 AM in the morning and arrived at four o'clock in the afternoon at Bath coach station. That is with some statutory breaks on the coach - from the drivers point of view. I know it sounds a long time but it passes quite quickly and we were at a...