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Patti (baconater) wrote: "Nice you had time for a long one.You need to take a holiday more frequently."
:-) I wrote it before I left.
I forgot to mention the latest, mainly because I did it on scheduled post on Thursday.https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2017/11/04/de...
Jim wrote: "facebooked :-)"Ooo thank you.
Here's this week. It's another one from the vast array of things in my author career I've fucked up so no-one else has to!But even better than that, it has a wee story!
http://mtmcguire.co.uk/2017/11/12/whe...
Enjoy.
And Patti was complaining about me suggesting she take her kindle to the loo!
First three years of McMini's life that was the only place I got to look at my kindle!
I also think taking a phone to the loo is gross. And don't get me started on women who put their handbags on toilet floors then put them on restaurant tables.One of the things that has always impressed me about the better restaurants in Baku is that they have little stools they pull up to the table for you to put your bag on.
I never put my bag on the loo floor or the table. :-) but I read in the loo because I have a child and so it's the only point when I'm sitting down that my female guilt centre doesn't present me with something else I should be doing instead.
I don't like putting my bag on the loo floor, but then don't often put them on the table in a restaurant either. I do read in the loo though, but don't think of taking the phone, unless I'm having a bath, and only then because it is the Sonos remote.
Gawd I sounded a snob.I should clarify that my 'handbag' is a backpack that has more airmiles on it than some cabin crew. And I'd probably be better off worrying about the crud its picked up from overhead lockers than what's on a loo floor.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Gawd I sounded a snob.I should clarify that my 'handbag' is a backpack that has more airmiles on it than some cabin crew. And I'd probably be better off worrying about the crud its picked up from..."
I think I'd look askance at somebody who put something like that on the table ;-)
Yeah, I'm always amazed when I'm allowed to sit down in those posh places.Reminds me of the time Dave and I rucked up in a place in Mombasa. We'd been two days hard driving from Kampala. Absolutely filthy. We'd stayed the night before in a crap hotel on the border with no water but safe parking. Just pressed on in the morning.
Anyway, we turned up at this five star hotel on the beach. One of those places with blocks of ice in the urinals that I've mentioned in the past. We had no intention of staying there but we drove up, were ushered in, had our car driven off and washed, were given a redickalus reduced room rate as we were East African resident.
It was one the Hemingway hotels.
Really must scan the photos into Facebook one day.
My 'handbag' is a backpack too. I bought a decent one recently though as I was fed up with manky ones that made me sweat in the summer. This one is lovely and light, really comfortable but it goes right up your armpits ... so it gets smelly.
Nope, I know just what you mean. At least you can adjust the straps to get them out of your pits. Can't get it off your disgusting sweaty back in 42 degree weather, though. My backpack spends most of August and September on the balcony drying in the sun. Love the lines of salt stains on it.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Nope, I know just what you mean. At least you can adjust the straps to get them out of your pits. Can't get it off your disgusting sweaty back in 42 degree weather, though. My backpack spends most ..."Gak! It sounds even grosser than my old one.
M.T. wrote: "My 'handbag' is a backpack too. I bought a decent one recently though as I was fed up with manky ones that made me sweat in the summer. This one is lovely and light, really comfortable but it goes ..."It should be a decent length, with a waist belt at the bottom which takes most of the weight, and then the straps don't ride up
It's the boobs that cause the trouble. Where I'm not going to meet any other people I can do the waist strap up and also clip the straps in the middle so they can't slide under my arms. But I can't do that anywhere where folks will see me because it's the kind of vision of squished stomach flab with added boobs fighting for freedom that will render the sensitive unconscious and give small children nightmares for years to come. It looks so awful my friends pretend not to know me.
Hilarious blog post MT
Glad you found and enjoyed it. Just in case here's the link.https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2017/11/18/ba...
Delighted to hear it. I'm officially shattered now. Had a tough weekend. Good but tough, cf pop in for a chat thread. :-)
Sorry MT, couldn't read todays, brought back a lot of memories of my nan's dementia, what I did read rang very true though - I have shared it to friends who are dealing with dementia
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Sorry MT, couldn't read todays, brought back a lot of memories of my nan's dementia, what I did read rang very true though - I have shared it to friends who are dealing with dementia"Bless you that's OK. Thanks for passing it on, I have a lot of new followers after this one so am thinking some of them could have come from your sharing.
Cheers
MTM
PS what does it say when auto correct changes my incorrect spelling of after to Vader! Mwahahaaaaargh!
M.T. wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Sorry MT, couldn't read todays, brought back a lot of memories of my nan's dementia, what I did read rang very true though - I have shared it to friends who are dealin..."Glad you have some new followers. Only you could have an auto correct like that!
Glad to hear it. I felt it wasn't really my best because I didn't have time to think about it so it didn't go anywhere or have a meaning and yet it wasn't just a pure funny story either. Interestingly, people seem to come to my blog looking for a post at about lunchtime on Saturdays now.
That's good, I look forward to it on a Sat.
Cool! Like Jim, I must do something with the posts.
I shared it, it's something everybody with older relatives ought to read
Just read it, really sorry for laughing so much through it, I can see how stressful it was, just your way of telling us is humerous
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Just read it, really sorry for laughing so much through it, I can see how stressful it was, just your way of telling us is humerous"Please don't apologise for laughing. I think a lot of people in my boat really want to laugh at it, ourselves. And it was meant to be funny. :-)
Jim wrote: "I shared it, it's something everybody with older relatives ought to read"
Thanks for the share Jim, I hope it helps people. I've had a few people locally say how much they enjoy these posts and how they like having permission to laugh about this stuff.
Cheers
MTM
we have to laugh at it because there is only so much crying you can do
Jim wrote: "we have to laugh at it because there is only so much crying you can do"Very true
M.T. wrote: "Re the distributors, Some and some. I go to Amazon, Google and kobo direct. If I could afford to spend the price of a car to go to apple direct I would but you have to have an I something to upload to them direct and the £500 I spent on my iPad mini isn't considered enough. You can pay people to do this for $20 or so a pop but it gets to be a real ball ache if you have to change the list of books in the back each time you have a new release etc.I use Draft2digital for most of it. There's also Smashwords but while they distribute to libraries etc they only distribute to the us in a lot of cases whereas d2d seem to distribute world wide to the places they distribute to. I use both: Smashwords for more small or obscure outlets, d2d for the biggies. D2d lets you change individual currency prices etc. Very handy if you get a Bookbub that stipulates the actual price in rupees etc.
Hope that helps."
Thanks MT that was useful. Still haven't quite reached the stage of publication yet, groan, this edit goes on and on, and sorry I didn't respond sooner. Haven't been much on GR the last few months apart from posting reviews of books.
M.T. wrote: "Right, I'll look them and him up. :-)"Catching up on your thread - thought you might be interested to know that Richmal Compton was a woman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmal_Crompton.
Pam wrote: "M.T. wrote: "Right, I'll look them and him up. :-)"Catching up on your thread - thought you might be interested to know that Richmal Compton was a woman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmal_Cr..."
There's a bit of a thing then! ;-)
At risk of you hating me, I'm not a fan of brandy butter or sauce
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "At risk of you hating me, I'm not a fan of brandy butter or sauce"No risk. I'm often not keen on the sauce but I do like the butter! ;-)
M.T. wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "At risk of you hating me, I'm not a fan of brandy butter or sauce"No risk. I'm often not keen on the sauce but I do like the butter! ;-)"
:) no wonder if you are used to proper home made stuff
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You need to take a holiday more frequently.