Category Archives: Old Git Wisdom

The Etch-A-Sketch Help Desk

Not quite wikileaks but I was recently passed this from a Friend in a call centre. I think we can all learn quite a lot from this, wise words .. wise words indeed. Q: My Etch-A-Sketch has all of these … Continue reading

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Getting My HTC Desire repaired by Carphone Warehouse\Geek Squad (part 4 The end!)

I got my HTC Back! šŸ™‚ Got a call today from the local Carphone Warehouse chappies to say my replacement phone had arrived in store and was ready for pickup. Having just been hit by a car last night, knocked … Continue reading

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Getting My HTC Desire repaired by Carphone Warehouse\Geek Squad (part 3)

A bit like waiting for a bus, nothing for ages and then 3 come at once. My HTC repair has moved on today when I checked it has gone to HTC in Milton Keynes for repairs. Rather worryingly that means … Continue reading

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Getting My HTC Desire repaired by Carphone Warehouse\Geek Squad (part 2)

Monday 20th Well it’s Monday evening .. 19:40 so lets check the Carphone Warehouse Web Site to see what has happened to my beloved HTC.. (see part 1 in the post below) Nope hasn’t arrived yet .. so much for … Continue reading

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Getting My HTC Desire repaired by Carphone Warehouse\Geek Squad (part 1)

My beloved HTC Desire got damaged by a near fatal accidental drop onto concrete. In summary it fell , it bounced several times, it fell into bits and the screen was smashed, really really badly. Oddly when the battery was … Continue reading

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Exploration – half hearing children in apple trees

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, unremembered gate When the last of earth left to … Continue reading

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Another Parenting Milestone

Inexorable as ever the plod of old father time’s feet have shuffled past another milestone in Casa McDonagh. Val and I are no longer the parents of a teenager! Niall , aka Scrote or theSprog , has managed to reach … Continue reading

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Dandering a definition

I was asked at the weekend what a dander was (is) And a Dander is a part of the SI unit forĀ  bipedal motion The full Dander Scale is as follows in ascending velocity Stationary Slope / Stagger* Stroll Promenade** … Continue reading

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Fade to Grey

I pass this wee houseĀ  when IĀ  go for a walk through Castleroe on the banks of the Bann. I can vaguely remember it in better days, when it still had a roof, but even then I don’t remember if … Continue reading

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N’ere cast a clout till May is out

Out for a wander today on the wee back roads on the outskirts of home and as I wandered I was reminded of this poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as springā€” When weeds, in wheels, shoot … Continue reading

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