Minnie’s Musings
Random ramblings of a middle aged, middle class, middle income woman
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My desk is tidier than it has been for months. I have a test on Wednesday. This test is on the business analysis section of my course that I signed up for in a bid for self-improvement. At the moment I am heading towards a borderline fail/pass, depending, so I am attempting to learn all…
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The city of Oxford in term time with the city of Oxford in the Summer. Do you prefer being mown down by student cyclists and failing to find a seat in any coffee shop because someone is writing a 2000 word essay on their laptop so is ensconced for the duration. Or streets teaming with…
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Why have mullets returned? Why are the youth of today sporting these filial atrocities? They didn’t look good in the early 80s and they don’t look good now. One’s negative opinion has not been enhanced by one’s Best Beloved’s oft repeated anecdote that his father shaved him.l a mullet when his primary school was suffering…
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Packed up and departed holiday park with 10 mins to spare. Hurrah! Now creeping along the motorway between The Hague and Rotterdam so 10 minute cushion is evaporating. Arghhhhh! Luckily we have another cushion built into our arrival time at Dunkirk. Of course, by smugly declaring that we have a cushion we are asking for…
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Came down, down, down in rushing, rising rivlets. About 10 days too late to rescue some of my pots, which I had been carefully nursing back to life. I am waiting for the soothing effect of a change in the weather to permeate through the house so the task I have set myself is not…
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The washing, that is. Rather a lot of it. Taking advantage of the last of the heat wave you have been experiencing in Blighty. My youngest, hitherto known as WhizzKid, deep cleaned the kitchen before we got home. It was indeed extremely tidy and clean when we got back. I know that the clean was…
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I am all for due diligence when it comes to checking up on those who are claiming benefits. And I am all for timely reviews of benefits so they remain fit for purpose. This is how the system is kept in check, theoretically. His Nibs is migrating from ESA to Universal Credit. His Nibs is…
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Staring beadily at Dover Castle and its position relative to the ferry window strut, attempting to ascertain whether we are stationary or just moving extremely slowly. Given that The Channel is doing a fair impression of Piccadilly in the rush hour today, we may be experiencing the nautical equivalent of being stacked over London (with…
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Nothing like a car ferry queue for rampant judgement or mindless staring at fellow passengers (if I am being charitable). I have sacrificed myself on the alter of others entertainment by attempting to change into my plimsoles only to see my right sock flutter off in the direction of Calais. In my bare feet I…
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Passport control with a boot check. How reassuring! Best Beloved leapt out to do the honours. So scanty was said boot check that the not particularly handsome young Frenchman in tres smart uniform barely took time to admire my packing. We are queuing behind a young biker who – on the third security stop –…
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