{"id":122,"date":"2008-02-16T00:11:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T23:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2008-02-16T00:11:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T23:11:29","slug":"a-friday-night-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"A Friday Night Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWell, it&#8217;s the end of the week and I would be lying to say if the situation has improved.<\/p>\n<p>I am sitting here on a Friday night at 22:01 reading &#8216;Participation or Pathology: Contradictory Tensions in Area Based Policy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>What is more, Neil leaves for America on Sunday, so instead of reading my Planning Policy Journal in the company of another human being who I can relay the odd\u00a0snippet\u00a0or factual gem to every so often &#8211;\u00a0it is likely that I will instead\u00a0strike an unnerving bond with the office pot plant.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sure to keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I have decided to leave you with &#8216;a week in pictures&#8217; taken from my mobile phone. It is a gimmic that appears to be popular on the BBC website, and god knows ALBD could do with a bit of livening up at the moment, so here we go.<\/p>\n<p>I think it tells a rather tragic tale&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/robin-1.jpg\" title=\"robin.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/robin-1.jpg\" alt=\"robin.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subject 1: I was fascinated to see that a robin had decided to buy its cillit bang and homous multi snack pots at the same time as me. Squint enough and its the black blob on the strip light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/headress-1.jpg\" title=\"headress.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/headress-1.jpg\" alt=\"headress.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subject 2: In the depths of dispair at work, and whilst waiting for the kettle to boil in order to make myself a peppermint tea, I fashioned myself a &#8216;flapper-esque&#8217; headress with the aid of some kitchen towel and the reflection of an adjustable bracket wall mounted microwave. A most unflattering photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/rainbow-1.jpg\" title=\"rainbow.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/rainbow-1.jpg\" alt=\"rainbow.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subject 3: Oh &#8211; and there was a rainbow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/hat-1.jpg\" title=\"hat.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/hat-1.jpg\" alt=\"hat.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subject 4: Thursday hit another low point, so I once again sought comfort\u00a0in another sort of millinery, this time on a Valentines theme (notice the carefully crafted hearts from fax copying paper) fashioned out of the motoring section of the Wokingham Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bath-1.jpg\" title=\"bath.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bath-1.jpg\" alt=\"bath.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subject 5: It is with great excitement we have ordered a new bathroom with which to replace the duck egg blue suite we currently suffer. This was me making sure I would not be restricted by the width of our new tub. Unfortunately ours won&#8217;t be coming with the whirlpool function.\u00a0My only alternative is to up my intake of fibre&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/pirate-bed-1.jpg\" title=\"pirate-bed.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/pirate-bed-1.jpg\" alt=\"pirate-bed.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subject 6: On the same outing I found this beauty in COSTCO. I am lobbying Neil to get the version in kingsize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/tassles-1.jpg\" title=\"tassles.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/tassles-1.jpg\" alt=\"tassles.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subject 7: Ok, so this was taken at Christmas, but its inclusion is justifiable for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1) Its an excuse to post a picture of Neil being silly and wearing tassle on his ears.<\/p>\n<p>2) A warning that this is what will happen to anyone exposed to me for too long.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s the end of the week and I would be lying to say if the situation has improved. I am sitting here on a Friday night at 22:01 reading &#8216;Participation or Pathology: Contradictory Tensions in Area Based Policy&#8217;. 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