Minnie’s Musings
Random ramblings of a middle aged, middle class, middle income woman
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Claim to fame No 1 is that my god father (a major general whose father was heavily involved in Bletchley Park during the war) was the MoD talking head in a Channel 4 program several decades ago (I think it was Channel 4 in its early, slightly amateurish stage). Anyway, Henry was asked by the…
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Having watched a couple of episodes of previously mentioned Long Road North, recalled A Town Like Alice, Bridge on the River Kwai (claim to fame to follow) as well as several series of Tenko, I was struck by the conflicting emotions evoked by the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima. The Today program covered this anniversary with…
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Had even more productive morning doing little jobs like shifting and sorting random things that are either not in their rightful place, are not on the correct floor of the house and therefore nowhere near rightful place or need to go to charity/in the bin/into the recycling cupboard. Met friend at station and caught the…
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Did lots of organising for holiday to Canada about which I was very pleased with myself. Only to discover that the cottage on Lake Huron at the end of our trip doesn’t offer bed linen or towels. This is annoying. But it does explain why it was cheaper than the rest. Hi hum. Abortive call…
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Did more work trying to fathom SQL coding. Made scrambled eggs on toast for lunch. Eyed the sky suspiciously. Departed for Oxford to visit son, rang residential home to say we were half an hour away and drove straight into a traffic jam. Shortly after idly wondering why lots of drivers were exiting the motorway…
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What did I do? Something happened. Can’t remember what. Oh yes. Went for a walk round local common with friend and husband. Discussed our children, our lives, our retirement plans, our siblings; random actions or inaction of various persons at home and abroad and then stopped for tea and cake. Ahhhhh yes! I remember. We…
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…. because I got hideously stuck trying to decipher how to SQL code a table. More of which later. After another two hours going back and forth between the instructions and online videos and still not getting it, I jumped in my car again to meet my friend in a local NT woodland which is…
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So, I have got as far as Wednesday and not posted, which is remiss of me. Or rather, an illustration of how busy my life is and how important I am, not. This is my third attempt (probably fourth or fifth in my head) at my rant about Friday. Days like that need to be…
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I have been reminded of the SEND illustration which illustrates equality of access. Myself husband, my youngest and I were all trying to peer over a wall. My husband could see straight ahead and down the other side easily, my daughter could see straight and could see nothing. You may have across the illustration I…
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When glaring at young man who did not give up his seat for you but did for the pretty young woman who got on a stop later. After a mental diatribe about the fickle priorities of the opposite sex, I looked down and saw that said pretty young woman was pregnant (usefully indicated by “baby…
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