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[M.T.]

I've been wittering on again!

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/01/20/st...

Enjoy.

MTM

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

The tale of how the anthology started really touched me

[M.T.]

It's wonderful isn't it?

[M.T.]

Here's another one. Want to be ice cool in a crisis? Here's how! Phnark.

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/01/27/du...

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Thanks for the laugh. When I first moved in here, I only had a Yale lock and would also lock myself out about once a month, it was that bad I gave my neighbour a spare key, and carried his spare key in my handbag, as mine was normally alcohol related - I'd put my key in my going out handbag, forget to check and shut the door. Once I was going out with my mum and she asked if I had my key just as I shut the door, at which point I realised I didn't so had to go next door to borrow my key. Worst I've done since needing a key to lock the door was got distracted while locking my front door and went to work leaving the key in the door. Neighbour noticed and took my keys out but unfortunately took them to work with her - she was on a late shift!! Was a very warm day in June, I'd realised after doing the food shopping and had to track someone down who had a key while praying the fresh and frozen food didn't get affected!!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I have had a couple of key disasters. Once I left my keys in work, and had to leave my shopping in the front garden and travel an hour back to work, get my keys and travel and hour home. My ice cream was melted when I finally got into the house.
I had a friend round on a saturday helping with cutting down some trees in our little estate and i was outside working on the trees. One of my neighbours came into the house for a minute or two, then we went back out and he shut the door behind us, lcoking my jacket indoors. So I had no keys, and nothing else either - no wallet, no phone... My friend had to take me in his car to the house of another friend a mile away who had a spare set of my keys.
And there was the time I looked the door in the morning as I left for work, then came back to find that I hadn't pulled the door completely shut so had locked it open! Luckily no-one had tried the door all day, so it was fine when I got home.

[Patti (baconater)]

I may be tempting fate saying this, especially as the door here locks automatically, but I've never lost my keys nor locked myself out, ever.

The only thing I've ever lost was a bracelet Dave gave me. But that's his fault as it had a dodgy clasp.

[M.T.]

I've left my keys in the door all day, too, which is why I used to have my car keys and house keys on the same ring because then I'd realise as soon as I walked round the corner and couldn't get into the car!

Cheers

MTM

[M.T.]

Today I hand the stage over to McMini.

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/02/03/ba...

Cheers

MTM

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Hilarious - and good luck!

[M.T.]

Yeh he's too smart by half. He's a good soul though, even if I do feel as if I'm taking the lead role in Ab Fab sometimes.

[Jim]

brilliant!

[Alicia]

Never a dull moment in your households, is there?

[M.T.]

:-) Nope. We are all weird and revel in our eccentricity.

[M.T.]

More ranting. One of the family stories this time.

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/02/10/th...

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Really interesting MT, I like ghost stories

[M.T.]

Glad you enjoyed it. I have more but about a different house and they are less interesting.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Glad you are achieving so much MT, looking forward to reading Hello Jonny Bell

[M.T.]

Thanks! Ah and I should probably add the link to my latest:

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/02/17/ro...

[M.T.]

My not interestingness knows no bounds. Here for your delectation is 1,400 words of laughing at myself.

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/02/24/fu...

Enjoy.

MTM

[Alicia]

Very amusing. Glad it wasn't me!

[Jim]

nice blog
As an aside, after personal experiences using draining rods I feel that even having 'wet wipes' within twenty yards of a toilet should be a sacking offence

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Thanks for the laugh MT

[M.T.]

Mwahahahargh glad everyone enjoyed it!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I hated sledging as a kid, mainly because of the fence and speed issue

[M.T.]

I should probably put the link in shouldn't I?

[M.T.]

Here we are. https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/03/04/sl...

[Jim]

I once went through a hedge on a sledge my Dad made.
He got the wood cut, assembled it, and then had our local agricultural engineers bend two lengths of steel bar to clad the wooden runners.
It was a fair weight and could motor as well
It was rugged enough that my Dad once towed my sister and I up hill behind a tractor. This was along the lane which was a bit scary :-)

[M.T.]

That sounds ace. I'm beginning to think that going through a hedge on a sledge is a kind of rite of passage every tobogganer must endure at some point.

Also thinking I should do something similar and make McMini a sledge ... or alternatively, I could spend sixty dollars on the modern day version of my Grandmother's 'Flexible Flyer'. I'm sure they're still good!

Cheers

MTM

[M.T.]

I forgot to post last week's rant! https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/03/10/pu...

Sorry about that.

[M.T.]

This one really is complete and utter random bollocks! I do hope you'll enjoy it!

http://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/03/17/wit...

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Glad I'm not the only one with a love/hate relationship with an Alexa! Was a good laugh

[Jim]

a good one :-)

[M.T.]

Thanks. Glad you all enjoyed it. :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

Ive never even spoken to Siri.

And what's happened to the apostrophes on my iPad?

Oh, being rationed.

[Alicia]

Have actually used Siri once or twice. Not bad. I had to figure out how to call her (Hey, Siri), and then to speak my query carefully until she got it right - and the answer was useful and immediate after that.

I'm just not a talky person when I'm alone, though.

[M.T.]

I find that google is the best but. you. have. to. leave. a. pause. between. each. word. or. she. hasn't. a. fucking. clue.

I now speak everything into my phone as it seems to understand it much better than when I try and type things. My vocabulary is still too large and too British for it but at least it gets about every third word right in dictation mode.

[Patti (baconater)]

Sounds like me talking to five year olds.

[M.T.]

Mwahahahahrgh! Yeh, that's about it. If you go too fast she can't distinguish one word from another.

[M.T.]

More random wittering ... About writing this time.
https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/03/24/re...

Enjoy

[Patti (baconater)]

Blogs such as your's may turn me to the dark side one day.

Naw, who am I kidding?

I'm not a writer.

[Jim]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Blogs such as your's may turn me to the dark side one day.

Naw, who am I kidding?

I'm not a writer."

What have you just done?
You've written
Anything else is just practice :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

I suppose I could publish the drivel I've written in here over the years. ;)

[Jim]

the very epitome of the modern novel ;-)

[Petra]

Jim wrote: "the very epitome of the modern novel ;-)"
Perhaps even postmodern!

[Patti (baconater)]

You lot are trying to define the undefinable.

[Patti (baconater)]

GL, Mary is away.

Good time to put a rude pic in her thread, I reckon.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "GL, Mary is away.

Good time to put a rude pic in her thread, I reckon."

What did you have in mind?

[Patti (baconater)]

Something with googly eyes, of course.

[Jim]

let's not beat about the bush, after McMini has been in here, anything we might do will merely look like a futile attempt to tidy up ;-)