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Evening Reader

Cinema today with Jnr, Puss In Boots, enjoyed it, very funny. Grandma Hard-on is taking him to see Arthur Christmas tomorrow, sick off explaining it's not called Half A Christmas, have given up now...

I was up til 3am this morning watching Harry Brown, pretty good film with Michael Caine. Hadn't seen it before, not a bad effort really, filled in a couple of hours.

Boss called round to our house tonight to give me my FY11 appraisal. Wasn't bad, exceeding expectations, got a nice little above average raise, but my bonus wasn't up to much this year, less than a third of what I got last year. Not good.

This blog was brought to you by Helen Skelton (28), the best BP presenter since Katy Hill, and certainly a possible contender for the position of Mrs Hard-on.



On this day: A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West HQ of the Northern Bank in Belfast, NI, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history (2004).

On the car's iPod dock: Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures

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Entertaining Jnr

Hello reader

I have Harry Jnr here this week, as he gets older it's getting harder to find stuff to entertain him, he's a little big for the Wacky Warehouse these days... thank god for Xbox.

I was reading over some old posts and there is quite a few things to update you on, the first thing I thought I'd tackle was the break-in at the local, back in January 2008.

If you recall, it had been broken into, the safe had been left open and large sum of money stolen. The manager was suspended and a meeting called. I had gotten a little irate, and as a result had been suspended for 12 months. So, what happened next?

The manager had been suspended but was let off without so much as a warning. The secretary (the boss) then resigned without giving a reason. It seemed cut and dried to us, the manager had left the safe open, gross misconduct, but for some reason it didn't happen, he got off while the person who was supposed to make him accountable resigned? Very fishy.

I did my 12 months suspension, went back in January 2009 and by April was assistant secretary (2nd in charge). By September I was secretary, no.1, numero uno. In year 1 I took the place from a £150k annual loss to an £11k profit, in year 2 we broke even.
It was hard work with a full time job as well as spending every night plus weekend days in there too, so in June 2011 I stepped down, happy that I'd helped stabilize the place.

I'm still in the local most week nights, and it was a struggle not to open my mouth when I see stupid business decisions being made, but I'm over that now, happy just to stand at the end of the bar and put the world to rights.

I've started to drink somewhere else on a Friday night, in another part of the city. And I've met someone I'd quite like to get to know better. And Miss Harriet Hard-on doesn't know. But that's a story for a rainy day...

Today's blog is brought to you by Dianna Agron, Glee sexpot and Lea Michele, Glee geek, both 25.



On this day: The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the HQ of the Brazilian Football Confederation (1983)

On the car's iPod dock (new car): Haven't been out today, do you know how cold it is!

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Nah, can't be.

Is it really three and a half years since I was last here?

Well, I'm gonna take an hour to read through old posts and I may come back in a day or two to construct a new one.

Hope you are fit and well reader, if you're still around?!

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On this day: The IRA bomb Harrods store in London, killing 6 people (1983)

On the car's iPod dock (new car): Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

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