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I’m currently a permie. That doesn’t mean I’m a member of some weird gang that really likes thermally treated hair, it means I work on a permanent contract. Permie is a common word for this, which makes it all sound a bit Tom Brown’s Schooldays – “That rotter Jerome is a permie, he’ll take hot [...]

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Me versus a crowd of hundreds

On September 16 2008 · 3 Comments · In Diary

The throng exited the train this morning at London Bridge at the same time as hundreds of other people, and that whole ‘wall of people’ thing got going, the one where your steps get short and fast as if you’re all moving a phalanx into formation, and the station attendents open the gates to prevent [...]

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On August 11 2008 · 2 Comments · In Diary

I’m in London for a job interview, and I had forgotten just what a pain in the neck this place is to be in if you’re just mooching here, if you’re not working, not a tourist, just here. It’s not unwelcoming, not exactly, you just get the feeling the place couldn’t give a stuff if [...]

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Scatterbrain goes to London

On July 25 2007 · 3 Comments · In Diary

One last trip to London for shopping, bye-bye drinks and sweating on the Tube today. I’m indulging in my speciality, which is panicking about trivialities – this time it’s that I forgot to buy dioralyte. This is a ludicrous thing to panic about as there is a Boots on Khao San Road, or I could [...]

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