Pewari’s Prattle: Aspiring to Randomness Since 2003

Entries Tagged as 'D’OH!'

Breaking Things

5th May 2009 · 3 Comments

It doesn’t appear to be my week. First, one of our skylights started to leak during the heavy rain yesterday (we think it might have been due to some sort of grit/debris stopping the window closing properly – at least the seal seems intact – we can’t be sure until the next bout of rain) [...]

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Doh!

2nd May 2007 · 4 Comments

I thought my bank account was looking a bit healthier than it ought to be. There were a few unreconciled transactions in my accounts software back from February as well, but I just assumed that I’d paid them on Visa rather than on debit card as I’d thought. Then there was the cash withdrawals that [...]

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Sodding Car Park Pillars!

2nd June 2006 · 7 Comments

WHY do they put those pillars in car parks? You know the ones – the narrow metal girders (to save space) but then some evil bastard planner gave a twisted smirk and made the bases really wide, just low enough to be impossible to see. Then, to add insult to injury, they use bright yellow [...]

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Keys Reunited

22nd May 2006 · 6 Comments

Most people who know me consider me to be a fairly organised and methodical person. I have routines. I have places things are kept. I usually keep on top of my paperwork. I just have two achilles heels: keys and purses. They never seem to get put down in their correct homes if I have [...]

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Fish Hypochondria

20th February 2006 · 6 Comments

Things were not going well for our hero. Getting Bob home went okay with minimal bumps, but he appeared to have a scale missing once we got him in the tank – we can only assume that it got knocked at the shop during transfer from net to plastic bag. However, this wasn’t the big [...]

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Squelch

23rd October 2004 · 3 Comments

*CRUNCH* *SQUELCH* “Oh shit, I’ve just trodden on a snail.” The footpath outside the front of our house is flanked on both sides (is that tautology?) with low bushes that are home to a host of creepy crawlies including it’s most popular residents: worms, slugs and snails. When Akra Jr was two years old, it [...]

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Humbled by Technology

3rd April 2004 · No Comments

I suppose it had to happen to me someday. Me, who virtually lives on a computer. Me, who used to work in a bank and gets frustrated when people don’t understand how to use cheques properly. Me, who is a gadget freak. I had to ask someone how the paying in machine worked at our [...]

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Mental Note

11th February 2004 · 8 Comments

If you decide to chuck your body puff in the wash to give it a quick spruce up, remember to remove it before putting the whole load on the tumble dry cycle. Fortunately, the meltdown of plastic was very self-contained and didn’t destroy the load it was in. I was lucky. This time.

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It’s taken me two days to confess…

29th August 2003 · 6 Comments

… that I could possibly do anything so stupid, but here I am, overcoming my embarrassment… confessing. I am not a confident driver, not a particularly good one either, but until now I have never had an accident that was my fault (although if I’m honest there’s been a couple of times I have been [...]

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Tags: D'OH! · Parenting

Sheepish, Moi?

16th May 2003 · 3 Comments

I feel very very very stupid. Remember me complaining that I was cursed with online shopping at the moment? That my Blackstar order had gone astray and I’d had to get them to send me out a new Buffy DVD? Well it arrived today. Bloody good service considering I’d only reported it yesterday lunchtime. Opened [...]

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