tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36283712011-11-01T12:04:23.232ZThe Life of a Chaos Valkyrierathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comBlogger2661100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-81385616540442043272009-01-04T18:51:00.002Z2009-01-04T20:42:14.901Z

I confess to having been exceptionally quiet. Most of my posts related to my former employment and have been kept private.Regular readers (that is if there still are any after this long hiatus) will be aware that I am a motor-racing fan of long standing. I love my motor sport. I am the nut who sits in front of the TV but spends most of the time looking at the live timing on the laptop and

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-77275538516494725112009-01-03T22:23:00.001Z2009-01-03T22:23:49.252Z

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-23570310247591401122008-12-15T18:06:00.003Z2009-11-02T19:49:36.342Z

Most of the bits I've been posting lately are not being made public for various reasons so it may have given the appearance that I had abandoned this blog. It's not the case.This post is quite brief as it is giving a reply to an email I received asking about the blog title.It's the title of a poem by Stevie Smith published in the 1950s and which is reproduced below.Nobody heard him, the dead man

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-58933105171380261362008-04-15T21:34:00.002Z2011-11-01T11:14:40.939Z

Yes folks it's true, it seems that Tom at MySpace employs people who have only one brain cell between them to run his operation. I know that on face value that looks as if I am being disparaging to those people who have mental, physical or developmental handicaps, but it is not intended to be. The difference is that the MySpace staff probably consider themselves to be highly intelligent,

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-24499511566261779422008-03-08T05:08:00.003Z2008-04-19T19:45:42.807Z

If, as a company, you find that you have a department that has had 5 of the 18 administrative staff leave in a period of about six months (three of whom left within a six week period of each other) wouldn't you be asking hard questions of the management? Yes?I know of a business where this has happened (see post below) but they are not looking to see if there are problems with the management, but

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-20721733732238755182008-01-28T18:53:00.003Z2011-11-01T12:04:23.249Z

Well that is it! I have finally had enough of the bullying from my employer. Even when a new person was brought in to add another layer of management, the person chosen was someone who clearly has the same ethos. It was only on Friday that the new person decided that it was completely appropriate to admonish me for being late to a meeting in a public stairwell, during a period of high

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-16628885847560404582007-08-12T05:41:00.000Z2007-08-13T19:59:23.216Z

Perhaps the strangest thing we encountered on our recent visit to Italy was La Casa di Giulietta in Verona. The house originally dates back to the 13th century but has been modified over the years including a 1930's reconstruction of a renaissance balcony. The original owners of the house were the Dal Cappella family and their coat of arms is over the arched entrance to the courtyard. The

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-47012426390957610772007-08-08T00:50:00.000Z2007-08-08T01:00:50.488Z

It seems that someone is making a concerted effort to break into my blogs. Three alerts from blogger in the last hour that someone has been requesting the password for the various blogs. Now it could be someone who has got the name of their blog wrong, but given that I have three blog accounts and there has been an attempt on all of them makes that unlikely. The other alternative is that

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-16350802968328222992007-08-06T17:31:00.000Z2007-08-06T17:50:36.494Z

Today I received my offer of a place on the Edinburgh MBA, which I am very pleased about. What I'm not please about is the mess up with funding, so I might have to defer a year because of that, which is not a very pleasing prospect. Hopefully I'll be able to work something out but having just had the expense of a long break in Italy there isn't much left in the way of savings.

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-25119308718543668282007-08-01T09:45:00.000Z2007-08-01T15:02:51.445Z

I'm getting to the point where I am ready to give up on humanity. Just as I think that I've got rid of the scheming, mixing, sickos out of my life, they reappear, don't accept being blanked and then play at being innocent and wounded that you would think badly of them. If that's not enough they start putting the blame onto the very people that they have gone out of their way to hurt.Honestly,

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-3500170771594330852007-06-06T17:30:00.000Z2007-06-06T15:53:17.252Z

I've just added a link in the sidebar to my last.fm radio station. So now you can get an idea of the type of music I like. If you follow the link to my profile you can also see what music I've been playing in the last week on iTunes and if I can get the plugin working there will also be information about the stuff I pay on my iPod (there isn't that much difference). If you like last.fm and

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-56680375939617361622007-06-03T19:38:00.001Z2007-06-03T19:39:41.824Z

MOG is a disaster! The software doesn't work, the website is a mess and the staff don't seem to be able to keep things running. I've got an alternative piece of software that I'm testing right now so that will be added soon (ish).

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-948695826863205022007-06-01T13:48:00.000Z2007-06-01T13:50:02.028Z

I've just added MOG into the side bar so you can see what music I'm playing in iTunes. Rather you will be able to see what I'm playing when I can get it verify my account, a task that is proving harder than it should.

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-16769390273866012842007-01-07T19:04:00.000Z2007-01-08T03:18:37.041Z

The new year started with wimper, many of the firework displays and associated events being cancelled due to gale force winds and torrential rain.I thought I would use this time to review last year's resolutions and start on the new ones for this year.So here are the resolutions and how well I did.I will lose weight. I did okay on this one though I have to admit that much of it was from the

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-64197415108380550542006-12-23T06:11:00.000Z2006-12-23T06:55:02.717Z

Dear low lifesYou may think that you are helping the whore by trying to split me up from hubby but it isn't working. Even if we do split up he does not want contact with her at all. You are actually making him hate her and if anything are making our relationship stronger. I know it takes time to keep setting up these new hotmail (and yahoo mail, etc) accounts in order to have an "anonymous"

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-16389690292754862272006-12-21T03:05:00.000Z2006-12-23T15:02:35.773Z

It seems as though half the good stuff for the Christmas period has already been shown on TV, including Terry Pratchett's Hogfather which was broadcast on Sunday and Monday. Given that there was some good stuff on the box, that our existing TV was beginning to show it's age and a friend was most disparaging about it's (lack of) size in our huge living room, hubby and I decided that we would

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1163288884458106832006-11-11T22:55:00.000Z2006-11-12T11:53:13.046Z

There has been nothing much to say or, to be more accurate, there is nothing that I can safely say in this forum due to not so veiled threats. There is of course the closed forum where I can speak freely and name names and should the suggestion that getting someone to hack into the account to see what is being said is followed through, then the authorities WILL be notified and prosecutions for

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1160099550892224232006-10-06T01:46:00.000Z2006-10-10T09:50:56.556Z

No I will not kill myself to please you or Charlotte. If and when I kill myself it will be for my reasons, on my terms, and one thing is for certain even if I'm out of the way my husband would never go back to that psychotic bitch. After all when he had to make a decision as to who he was staying with, knowing that whoever he chose the other was likely to try to kill herself, he chose to stay

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1159446330739466132006-09-28T12:22:00.000Z2006-10-17T02:35:26.023Z

I found a web site with some challenging humour. Some of the cartoons like this one are very clever.Enjoy

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1159281485955630792006-09-26T13:48:00.000Z2006-10-10T09:52:45.256Z

I've had an interesting email asking how I can be suicidal when I'm not depressed. The answer is that it's quite easy. It all depends on your attitude to death and the replacement of the word suicide with euthenasia.Let me explain. Most people in this country are brought up to follow a Christian ideology, even if they don't practice the religion. Within this ideology there are a few aspects

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158975002322403632006-09-23T01:22:00.000Z2006-09-23T04:14:43.536Z

I've started a new blog called Chaos Abounds. It's not really a blog but a place where I can play with the blogger templates to get the look and feel I want without messing around with the main blog and completely wrecking everything. I've left the comments on the new blog open so I can get feedback on the look of the layout, please don't comment on anything else there. I've also stopped

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158796166138410462006-09-20T23:36:00.000Z2006-09-21T00:06:19.490Z

The speed freaks out there will have no doubt already heard this. Richard "Hamster" Hammond has been seriously injured whilst filming a piece for Top Gear. Apparently he was attempting to break the British land speed record at the former RAF base at Elvington nr York when the jet powered car crashed at high speed (in the order of 300 mph). Early news indicated that the vehicle was upside down

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158608670544824182006-09-18T19:06:00.000Z2006-09-20T14:01:44.916Z

I've made a couple of changes to the blog. The main title and about from the sidebar have been swapped as it didn't make much sense the way it was. I'm also looking at changing the template as I really don't like the existing blogger template, but it was, as they say, the best of a bad bunch. I'm not guaranteeing that the changes will be any time soon. I'm notoriously bad at design so the

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158283275994342992006-09-15T01:17:00.000Z2006-09-17T02:47:56.886Z

It's just past 2 am. I'm sitting at the computer trying to find something that acts as a soporific.I'm bored, lonely and depressed.The worst thing about the current situation is that I'm stuck at home with nobody wanting to speak with me, and the delusional, psychotic, slut of an ex-mistress is getting lots of attention. Anyone would think she was the victim in all of this.

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158188487166775252006-09-13T22:51:00.000Z2006-09-13T23:01:27.256Z

A few years ago, after the store was refurbished, John Lewis in Edinburgh decided that, for some reason, they were no longer going to supply dressmaking patterns and fabric. Imagine my surprise when I went in today to find that they have reversed this decision and the fabrics are back. No more trips to Glasgow to get decent fabric and current patterns. I think I did freak out the assistant

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158092070836981492006-09-12T20:07:00.000Z2006-09-12T20:14:30.970Z

Some time ago I was invited to join Orkut, which in principle is an idea that I quite like. A closed community where access is gained by invitation only thus, in theory, removing the weirder elements of the net and reducing the amount of spam that people are subjected to. However, this does not seem to work, very quickly there is a market for invitations and the undesirable elements that most

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158019936207073262006-09-12T00:09:00.000Z2006-09-12T00:56:42.106Z

I don't normally do memes, quizzes and the like but every once in a while one gets past the barricade like this one, which I offer as a perfect example as to why these things are stupid.You Are a Pundit Blogger!Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read.Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a fewWhat Kind of Blogger Are You?

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158017717879153482006-09-11T23:25:00.000Z2006-09-19T04:19:24.360Z

Hubby and I are finally looking at getting our web pages set up with our own domain. This has caused the problem of finding a name for the domain. I wouldn't mind having rathgild.org or something like that but it's not ideal for hubby, especially as he is looking at a long term IT project with a friend of his. We did think of naming the house and getting the domain to match that, but we

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1157539328926019202006-09-06T10:18:00.000Z2006-09-20T22:27:46.506Z

I should make something clear for people to have a better understanding of me.(a) I am suicidal(b) I am depressedFor most people (a) follows on from (b) as they increasingly see no solution to the situation that is causing (b).However, for me (a) and (b) are completely separate. (a) is a situation that I have been in for as long as I can remember, the reasons are long, complex and to be quite

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1156931917158556272006-08-30T08:55:00.000Z2006-08-30T13:58:42.636Z

Before all this aggravation started I weighed in at a hefty 16st 5lb (that's 229 lb or 104 kg), my bra size was 36G and I couldn't get jeans to fit because at Gap they only went up to 40 inch hips and so I couldn't get them over my fat bum.Last week I went shopping for new lingerie and having been measured again I am now in a 34 GG bra. I can also get into the 40 inch hip jeans and on the scale

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1156889052093920052006-08-29T21:59:00.000Z2006-09-01T01:09:42.880Z

In true Big Brother style it seems that I have been evicted from our social circle. Apparently some people are sick of being in the middle and some are equally sick of the stirring elements, well, stirring. So now I know that I'm perceived as a social pariah, deemed incapable of doing my job, and have only an unfaithful husband to talk to. And the psychiatrists think this is worth living for?!?!!

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1156591095610758952006-08-26T11:09:00.001Z2008-12-15T18:04:00.298Z

As previously noted I was in hospital for a chunk of August. So here's a synopsis to let you know what happened.As most people will have noticed right up to my last posting I was getting more depressed partly because of the way I was being excluded from work, but mainly because there had been a 19 year old chasing after my husband who had almost managed to wreck my marriage. Someone had put, in

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1156513053066107602006-08-25T13:35:00.000Z2006-08-26T10:38:38.753Z

Just a very brief post to let everyone know that I am out of hospital. Things have been eventful on the scheming mistress side of things, and once I've settled back at home Paul and I will give a fuller update of whats been going on.

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1156106809319944102006-08-20T20:44:00.000Z2006-08-22T13:41:03.310Z

Due to Jan being in hospital there is a temporary break in service. We hope to restore this service as soon as possible.EtaRathgild's Husband

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01314015375944080975noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1154513628607826622006-08-02T10:07:00.000Z2006-08-02T16:38:28.506Z

But not mine. In a comment on Shattered's blog:nautilus said... I have only one thing to say....To all mistresses everywhere...may you meet a man that you love more than life, bear his children and build a wonderful family, and then have some little tart come and tear it all apart!!!!!!!!!I couldn't have put it better myself. UPDATEOn second thoughts that will just perpetuate the

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1154383475315524512006-07-31T21:41:00.000Z2006-08-01T12:34:14.606Z

My husband got in very late from work. I know that he is cat sitting for a friend and it's very probable that he spent time with the cats. After all there are newborn kittens to be admired. He didn't feel like cooking when he got in and as I'd had a visitor for most of the afternoon, done a stack of laundry, and other various housework tasks I didn't feel like cooking either. There is also the

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1154347692928465502006-07-31T11:52:00.000Z2006-08-01T23:26:38.806Z

I was reading through Totally Shattered when I noticed this piece. I'd read it before but it didn't click at the time.My point is that if you choose to do something then nobody else is to blame for your choices and the consequences of your choices. She chose to become involved with a married man, so she cannot hold me responsible for her pain now that he has chosen to go back to his wife. It was

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1153827480657933132006-07-25T11:26:00.000Z2006-07-25T11:38:02.386Z

I am a teesy bit cheesed off with Blogpatrol at the moment. My hit counter has been zeroed, or to be more accurate, it's lost a hell of a lot of hits. I am aware that this is caused by a power outage that took down their servers and it is the sudden loss of power that has caused some areas of the database to be corrupted. I understand that they cannot control the power company's supply, but

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1153754513443883132006-07-24T12:52:00.000Z2006-07-26T16:47:46.643Z

When we first moved to our new palatial apartment we made the error of signing up with BT. We knew that we didn't want their broadband service because (a) they are expensive (b) they cap the amount you can download each month (c) they are notoriously crap. When signing up (over the telephone) I did tell the salesdroid that we were looking for a different broadband supplier and even mentioned that

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1153679785072544222006-07-23T18:23:00.000Z2006-07-23T18:37:32.630Z

I closed my Livejournal (LJ) account, and I have copied most of the LJ entries here. That means that there is a bit of duplication of entries. As of now this is my only personal blog and Cross Stitcher's Diary will cover all the craft related stuff. My pictures are all on my Flickr account

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1153337983448729002006-07-19T19:37:00.000Z2006-07-20T15:21:26.710Z

Today has been very up and down. First thing today I was really depressed to the point that I didn't want to get out of bed, but the postman knocking on the door to deliver a parcel forced me up. I called into work to say that I wouldn't be in and told one of my colleagues what had happened on Sunday/Monday. It seems that news has spread somewhat which makes it a rather difficult situation

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1153175688371728982006-07-17T21:40:00.000Z2006-07-23T17:35:00.000Z

My life is a complete mess. Everybody tells me that I have won the battle in that my husband is staying with me but I still have huge doubts about that. Each time he tells me something I remember him looking straight into my eyes and lying about the situation with him and Charlotte the Harlot. And it gets worse in that our alleged circle of friends all seem to want to give HER support, so we will

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1153166176688598262006-07-17T16:53:00.000Z2006-07-27T19:57:53.683Z

Well that was interesting - not. I took a handful of my amitriptyline tablets (about 10-12 50mg tablets) last night in the hope that I wouldn't wake up this morning, which as I'm typing this obviously failed. The first that my husband knew was when I could hardly walk this morning, so he called the ambulance service. Paramedics were nice and kind and said that given the time I'd taken the pills

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1153181021760396392006-07-16T20:40:00.000Z2006-08-07T18:22:41.370Z

Yesterday started out quite well. I recently bought an Elizabeth David cookbook and decided to make a lasagna, from scratch (including the pasta). It turned out really well and as we had a friend for our late lunch it went down a treat. Another friend came around with her daughter, who very kindly brought some cake. So after our guests had left we decided to go to the pub as usual.This was the

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1152816658294876092006-07-13T17:32:00.000Z2006-08-07T18:20:08.510Z

The past few days have been very fraught in one way and another. The girl my husband was having an affair with is still holding me responsible for the situation and although she is now accepting some responsibility it's only 1/3. I don't understand her reasoning in this but it's a start. The way that she is manipulating things around to make out that she is the victim of all this would be

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1152020294566922232006-06-27T23:19:00.000Z2006-08-07T18:09:42.020Z

When a girl is shagging a guy and he dumps her so he can move 200+ miles away to get married, if she then follows him that 200+ miles, manipulates to get the relationship going again, emotionally blackmails and harrasses him into leaving his wife, how in this situation is the fact that the girl is hurt because her plan didn't work out the wifes fault? Which part of this makes the wife the scum of

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1152021045723340982006-06-27T00:08:00.000Z2006-07-05T11:38:32.830Z

My husband has put up a long post on his livejournal account giving his side of this mess. Hopefully, that will put paid to a Charlotte blaming me for the situation. Please do not come to me slating my husband, I'm doing a very good job of making his life hell at the moment, which I have to say he is taking with good grace and much contrition. Of course, all we need now are the random text

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1152021138760695012006-06-26T18:09:00.000Z2006-07-04T13:59:07.750Z

Can anyone suggest a good place to have a small but highly significant bonfire? I've decided that as it is clear that my husband didn't want to take his marriage vows seriously, that I should burn that great symbol of my betrayal - the wedding dress. Once I know of a good place to have the cremation, I'll post a follow up with invites to bring a bottle and help me drown my sorrows. I might even

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1152021246334656242006-06-25T12:39:00.000Z2006-07-13T23:41:35.666Z

Charlotte is still trying to keep her claws in my husband. He left a bag of stuff at her flat and he still has a few bits of hers, and she is refusing to let us arrange a swap of these items by a neutral party. We all know that this is so that she can start emotionally blackmailing my husband into getting back together with her. She is also trying to make herself out as the victim in all of

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Well as people will now be aware my husband was having an affair with Charlotte . This is the same Charlotte who came into my home as a "friend" and is now feeling hard done by because the married man she sank her hooks into decided that his wife meant something to him. The same Charlotte who thrust a shit load of her problems on to me whilst I knew, but couldn't prove, what was going on and then

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Tonight has been very eventful. It turns out that my husband has been having an affair since before we were married with someone who then masqueraded as being my friend. Of course, we had the long drawn out argument, the recrimination, the blame etc thing and realised that we didn't really want to split up so the other woman has been told to sling her hook and leave us alone. Whether she will

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This is completely plagarised from a colleague who had it sent to her from a student.Moore v. Griffiths (Inspector of Taxes) [1972] 1 WLR 1024. Following the 1966 World Cup the Football Association very generously decided to pay £22,000.00 divided equally between the 22 players in the England football squad.The Inland Revenue subsequently sought to tax those payments as income.A Mr Robert

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Well for my old house at least! Greater Manchester Police have released the footage from the police helicopter flying over the city centre on the day the bomb went off. See BBC news story here. The still on the story page doesn't quite show where I lived but is quite close, though the actual footage does pan around a bit more so you can see the entire Cromford Courts development. If you look

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One of the professors is retiring so I went along to his valedictorian lecture. A very interesting look at the Renaissance and the way it continues to influence, in particular the way he demonstrated the roots of Brando's performance as Don Corelone in The Godfather to his performance as Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar (with wonderful mimicry to drive home the point) and for the encore recited

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We were suckered into signing up for Bulldog broadband and have had nothing but trouble since. They have their own forums but the security is so poor that you could drive a bus through some of the holes. Plus if you complain too much the sys admins delete your posts and then ban you.If anyone comes to this list after being banned by bulldog's little hitlers then leave a message in the comments

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We have exam boards in 1 week. We have no marks. Chaos? You bet.

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I have seen it all now. Instead of the usual bland nonsense that usually wins this year the runaway winners were heavy rockers Lordi from Finland. They looked like extras from the Lord of the Rings too. There is hope for the Eurobore.

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Sad I know to be really proud of hitting targets in a game but given the length of time I've been playing Vampires! The Dark Alleyway I think I deserve a bit of pride in reaching the Blood Royal rank. Only another 15000 blood to go to be in the very top rank. I did also notice that I'm ranked 86 on the Bloodpoints database but as that is updated manually there could be high ranking vampires

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This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.Live journal user random_redhead gave me SSoporifics. Which I need at the moment because I'm having another massive bout of insomnia probably

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After reading my journal entries, one of the guys I know on IRC said that I wrote like an American who is living in the UK. I'm wondering if this is a good or a bad thing. Answers on a postcard to...

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I'm just starting to enjoy Boston Legal. It's not at the must see point yet, but if I notice it whist channel hopping I'll watch it:Last night I ended up watching the repeated showing of the episode "Too Much Information" the basic plot being that a woman escaping from an abusive relationship goes to a refuge but because her HMO makes information available on the internet, it was possible for the

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I now have almost all the photos of Venice on-line at flickr I just need to go through and add relevant comments. It's amazing that 2 years on we can still remember the routes that we walked around the island and were we got boats, etc. Of course, the photos are a great aide-memoire and help us to work out the details that we might otherwise have forgotten.Next job will be to get some of the

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Just got in from the after work seminar and reception where amongst other things we discussed academics as media whores (David Starkey, Simon Schama, et al), general inability of students to put their name/matriculation/examination number on assessed course work, students lack of understanding that if they weren't given a handout at a lecture then perhaps there wasn't one, William Wallace's

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I had another appointment with the dentist today! This was the worst experience I've had at that dentist which is a shame because the dentist herself was really nice and tried to prevent any discomfort for me. It was even worse than the root canal work that was done a couple of weeks ago!! What could be worse that root canal work? How about full impressions. The tooth that is to be crowned

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Someone has said that I was being unfair to Charlotte blaming her for my suicidal state. Can I say for the record that I am not blaming her for my state of mind. It seemed it was the only way to get through to her that I was unable to cope with her problems, and despite telling her, and indeed having posted in my LJ that I wasn't coping with "life the universe and everything" a post that she

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We've had the invitation to go to a wedding today for ages but I really couldn't face going. My hubby has gone over to Glasgow to show his face and I'm sitting at home not knowing what to do with myself, because nothing interests me enough to overcome the whole "why bother" feeling that I have at the moment. I've tried reading, doing some needlework, watching "Invasion: Earth" on the Sci-Fi

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Interesting to find that certain people don't like attention being taken away from them. Thank you Charlotte for all your sympathy. Pushing your own problems onto me and my husband whilst ignoring the fact that I was getting suicidal as far back as November. Oh and for getting me and my husband to run around for you whilst you were unwell even though we couldn't cope. Sorry that the one time I

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There's a point in your life when you realise just what worth you have in society. I finally acknowledged, after years of denial, that I have absolutely no worth whatsoever. I've know this for a while really - the way that my husband was able to stand by unnoticing whilst I was slipping into a suicidal depression, yet when a friend hit a crisis was able to see it coming and dropped everything (

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I was mad with my mobile phone provider, but I have to a degree forgiven them. The reason I'm mad at them is that I seem to be inundated with calls from various marketing companies who are trying to get me to renegotiate my contract with them. Fair enough.... Except.When we signed the original contract we checked the little box that said no marketing calls, andMy mobile number is registered

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Am I the only one who thinks that Derek Acorah is a complete fraud? That the whole show is a sham?

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I was ill over the weekend. Of course, I managed to be ill whilst my husband was away visiting his parental units. I spent two days in bed knowing that I can't get anything unless I stagger down the hallway to the kitchen and feeling too awful to want to spend the energy so I'm in absolute dire necessity before I even get up to get a drink. Not that it mattered anyway. Sunday night he got home

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I like doing counted cross stitch and I've done a couple of big projects, but I don't know that I'd dare start something as big as this. The complete project is 40 inches x 80 inches or 564 stitches by 1,114 stitches which translates to 14 stitches per inch or 196 inches per square inch and gives a total of 628,296 stitches in total. According the information from the designer it was completed

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I've known about the liveplasma search engine for a while, but never really used it. I've always thought that I have wide, boundary crossing tastes. However, a few quick searches later I find that all my preferences are quite strongly linked, proving that I'm more of a mainstream bunny than I thought.

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Abu Hamza has been found guilty of inciting murder and stirring up race hate and sentenced to seven year in jail. Now I hate to rain on the law and order parade but this verdict gives me serious misgivings. It's not that I don't think that he's guilty as sin, it's that there had been so much press coverage including some of his sermons and speeches prior to his trial that is there not the

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rathgild --[adjective]:Extremely extreme!'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.comThanks lj user spride

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This is very bizarre because on Thursday night whilst at my media studies course, I was having a great deal of difficulty staying awake. Friday morning I didn't get out of bed till ten past nine (which isn't good when you start work at 9am) and continued to feel like I was falling asleep all day. I arrived home fully expecting to pass out on the sofa, but no, not even "America's Next Top Model"

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Ikea came today with our furniture. The one thing I like about Ikea home delivery is that as soon as the van is loaded, the delivery drivers call all the customers to say where on the delivery route you are and then again as they complete the delivery before yours. The thing I hate about this is that they make the first call somewhere between 8:00 and 8:30 am. So just before 8:30 we got a

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My husband and I had another trip to Ikea. We had a plan though, so without deviation, hesitation and only a very small amount of repetition we got through the maze in record time. We then had to find the items we wanted in the self-service area. First item, not in the location it should be, next place we look has the right item but in the wrong veneer finish. My husband goes off to the info desk

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I knew we would have to do this again, but......We're going to Ikea tomorrow.*runs away*

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It's almost 7 am and I'm still awake, which had been the normal state of affairs since xmas. This means that I'm spending a lot of time on my own brooding which I suspect is not doing me any good. The current wave of introspection is basically a whole bucket load of self doubt, that I can't go out socializing because there is no one who would want to socialize with me, there is no point talking

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This is the first chance I've had to write an update on the big move. Despite all the assessments that were due and needed processing I was able to get 6 days annual leave from work. Hubby was supposed to be doing the same with the exception that he had to go into work for a software presentation one morning. We should in principle have then had a whole week with both of us, sorting and packing,

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!As is traditional at the start of the new year I have made a number of resolutions. Of course, tradition also dictates that these resolutions should be broken by the middle of January. I'm hoping that I will do better than that and keep up with these, hopefully to build on them next year. So here goes.I will lose weight.I will learn to programme.I will recycle more.I will give more

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I have an account on Care2.com where I found this item on a friend's page. I make no apologies for lifting this text in full. Besides, I asked first (thanks Michael), as the issue of the US religious right flaunting rules to suit their own political agenda - or in this case having a political agenda when they shouldn't, is getting to the point that it looks corrupt. A Call for the Internal

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We've done it!Way back in June I gave the marathon post about looking for a new place. Well we've found a new flat and moved in yesterday. I didn't want to post anything before (I know all about counting chickens). Anyway the new flat is huge, or rather it seems huge. We did a quick measure up of both places and the whole of the old flat would fit into the living room and kitchen of the new

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Subject to major disasters it looks as thought the boy wonder and I will be moving house sometime during the beginning of December. As a result we are having a massive clear out of stuff that we don't want to take with us to the new place. A bunch of this stuff, however, isn't ours and we don't want to schlep it to the new place if we don't have to. A lot of this stuff was given as "long term

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1152031955634835932005-08-28T23:43:00.000Z2006-07-04T16:52:35.636Z

In the end it was only half of Tao (the other half were back in Japan performing at the Tokyo International Forum) but that didn't really matter. A stunning performance of traditional Taiko drumming with some very modern visual touches. To be honest I am totally at a loss has to how best to describe the show, other than perhaps the best performance of drumming I have ever seen. I would

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Now that Paul is up here we are learning the benefits of being Orange users - 2 for 1 tickets to the cimema on a Wednesday. Just been to see "King Arthur". Without giving too much away it is part of the mongol hoard doing Braveheart on Hadrian's Wall against an invading Saxon army (heading southwards?). Okay so it isn't Excalibur but it doesn't suck that much either plus it has Clive Owen

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I just happen to have a copy of the full 12 volume version of Sir James Frazer's "Golden Bough" in pdf format. As far as I know this version is not available on the web (yet) and I'm currently trying to get Volume 1 converted to text for publishing. Anyone want to help?To make it easier a certain Italian friend created a script that will automatically process all the pdfs into png format, and

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Scanning through the BBC news pages I find this little snippet:Pink was a boy's colour while blue was thought better for girls - a "generally accepted rule" according to The Ladies Home Journal in 1918, which described pink as "more decided and stronger" while blue was "more delicate and dainty".followed later on the same page by:The colour pink gets its name from the jagged-edged dianthus flower

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I have been hoovering the cat at work for the past half an hour or so. I've just completed my end of year accounts returns so I feel I have earned the right to loaf for a bit. Anyway I used the time to look up an interesting concept that was mentioned in the New Scientist magazine recently. In line with christian fundamentalists insisting that their faith be taught as science a young chap in

rathgildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1152030514482078342005-08-09T19:02:00.000Z2006-07-04T16:28:34.483Z

I had a great time at Interaction, well for most of it anyway. Went to lots of panels, spent lots of cash in the dealer room, adopted a beeble-bear (picture here), got some great ideas for making cross stitch designs in the art show. I also met lots of great people who I hope that I can keep in touch with, as well as meeting up with people that we had lost touch with a number of years ago.

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I rare that I've been involved with something big right at the start, but it seems I've managed it this time. In the wake of the London bombings some moblog friends and I have started a website We're Not Afraid. The discussion thread where this site originated is here and alfie's image that has been in all the press is here. At the moment the team are working our butts off processing the

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It's taken me a while to get this done as I've been following the news of the London bombings on moblog.co.uk. One of the guys took a photo whilst he was trapped in the tube and SMSed it as soon as he got to the surface. The photo has now been picked up by a number of the news sites. I've done sod all work today just spending the time watching the news and following the news and blog sites. I

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Just been to see War of the Worlds. It was absolutely brilliant. Okay, so Spielberg has played with H.G.Wells plot slightly, but it doesn't matter. What is important is that he has kept the main elements of the story, which after all is about a hundred years old. So what if he has taken english, middle-class victorians (from Woking, which apart from the McLaren Factory, would be vastly

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I completely missed the annual borefest that is the Eurovision Song Contest and from what I did hear about it I'm rather glad I did. However, it seems that one counties entry was disqualified. The competitor from Molvania was arrested on arrival "at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport and immediately deported".Okay, okay. I know that Molvania doesn't exist and that the travel guide is merely

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SaturdayThe boy wonder and the italian lunatic are in the tenement stair fixing a bicycle. I keep going and supervising once in a while but generally just laughing. If this had been someone fixing a car I would have known better than to laugh at the silly little things that happen, but cyclists do have a better perspective on things and do think that making something squirt/splash in your face

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My office is being redecorated.Yes indeedy. The powers that be have decided that I can get my office redecorated. I have to say that it's about time. There is paper peeling off the ceiling and the walls look filthy in places from years of people leaning against them. As I'm getting my office done, and the boy wonder and I are looking to move house. It seems that now is the time for upgrading

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Moblog launched!Moblog is up and running at http://moblog.co.uk/blog/rathgild. It isn't going to replace this blog but will be a suppliment until blogger decides to sent a code to my phone. First photos are just ones that were sitting on my phone that I've used to test things were working. I'm actually surprised that they have turned out as good as they have because I'm notoriously bad at taking

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I know I'm not exactly built like Kate Moss, and I know I've got a fat arse so I dress accordingly. So here is the warning girls. If you are of a larger build do not under any circumstances wear hipster jeans. Especially do not wear hipster jeans with cropped tops. The sight of a wobbly, fat belly pouring over the top of the waistband is not pretty, in fact it looks disgusting. So stop it. NOW!

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House huntingWhen I moved to Edinburgh I got a furnished flat to live in. That basically means I've been living in a place where I worry about every spill on the rug and marks on the sofa. It's like being in a hotel room with no maid service. The main reason was that the boy wonder and I had a flat full of our own furniture in Manchester, the flat I was in was going to be temporary and as soon as

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