Ed Parnell

Book of the Week - 250 Times I Saw A Play by Keith Newman Keith Odo Newman, whom the Guardian has described as "a homosexual Austrian psychoanalyst," authored 250 Times I Saw A Play, which was published in 1944. As the title suggests, it describes his experience of watching a play 250 times. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6482011M/Two_hundred_and_fifty_times_I_saw_a_play_or_Authors_actors_and_audiences Original subject was a https://www.amazon.co.uk/Historical-Curiosity-Birmingham-Forty-One-Birmingham/dp/B003MPA8T8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ERU0EPER9HA9&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.goDSWJTzgLWVIIxp5llinkyLd8KOsXtq57-fCs3Ph14.15lro9cywPndu6FhO6Dya7ukpxiXW1_KyKq9fTFk22o&dib_tag=se&keywords=ways+of+spelling+birmingham&qid=1761942932&s=books&sprefix=ways+of+spelling+birmingham%2Cstripbooks%2C161&sr=1-1 about Birmingham.

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Two Tier Justice It's not fair!

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I hate it when you are talking and your voice comes back in your headphones three seconds later and it makes you sound like you are having some sort of incident.

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 2 The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.

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Book of the week - The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History and Its Role in the World Today You think you know marmalade? Think again, fool. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Marmalade-C-Anne-Wilson/dp/0812217276

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Fell asleep at my desk. So yes, it is a lot like being in proper work.

The other thing is legislation is so loose they can work around stuff. Labour were going to fix a lot of it, but the bills keep getting watered down because 'business objects'. If a business objects to treating its' employees with a scintilla of respect, you have to wonder about that business...

As someone who decided working for/with other people on a prolonged basis wasn't working out, I can only rely on myself now. Which is both scary and oddly reassuring. I am measured by my own efforts, not financially, but in terms of satisfaction.

Other people are just, mostly, annoying.

I don't lknow. It always takes them longer to pay out than to collect. If it was collections it would be done in a heartbeat. If they have to pay out it's roughly the same as the gestation period of an elephant.

As it happened I went back to yakking on the radio for three times the money and half the hours.

I worked also for a research company who said 'Oh, we can't process your pay this month' and then repeated the claim the next month. I left and had to take them to court to get anything at all.

"You don't show enthusiasm" "Why we'll consider making you senior next round of promotions" "You are letting your colleagues down" "You are not being part of the team".

Don't care. They were asking me to do something, for £5k less, more or less every day. If that's the position pay me.

When I worked in IT Support, they had my line and the 'Senior' line. They started saying 'Listen, the senior line is busy, can you hop on and help out'. And it became a habit. Until I said 'You want me to do senior work, pay me. Otherwise I'll do basic dross'. Well...

As, it's a professional obligation to reply to a .nhs address than a regular punter, probably. Image awareness.

The way I see it, we need to make a massive investment in people, in skills, real skills. And not charge people for it. Because AI is coming, and I worry for people with no USP.

Truth is you, me and everyone else don't get anything extra for going the next mile. There's no thanks. If we work over a certain point it actively works against us in tax, NI and other deductions. It's crazy. It's the social bargain; work hard, get rewards. But the reward lately is a softer punch.

I stopped working for other people in 2007. I do mostly freelance stuff. And it's hard. I barely make minimum wage, and there is NO support. The industry, like many others, is contracting and whereas years ago I could go and write a few bits and make a bit, that avenue is not there.

I totally get how people are angered by a tiny minority of asylum seekers allegedly causing problems, but the truth is there are more British people causing the same problems and nothing happens there. It's all manipulation of unoccupied minds.

They could stop all these dregs being bussed in to cause trouble if they wanted to; they say they have the tech, and all the computers/phones etc have backdoors. They can trace if people download movies etc. Whatsapp is monitored. As are the other apps. They could stop it. But they have to want to.

Same. I wrote to her about getting some sort of award for someone. Couldn't be more interested, although I suspect for the reflected publicity. Now I write to her querying ID cards and other bits and pieces, nothing. not even an acknowlegement.

Quick enough to email last election though.

What they should do is
Invest in people; make people want to get on. At the moment no one sees a point, really. Struggling no matter how hard they try, meanwhile the taxes which we are told are for education or the NHS seems to vanish on banquets and data centres.

They have done *some* good things, but the sheer number or volume of poor ideas or clumsy execution is just bewildering. And some of them make me think of a frustrated primary school teacher explaining something for the 40th time to a particularly dense parent when they address people.

Labour are awful. The sheer lack of ideas, or the ability to put a cohesive policy argument together. The Tories did the same thing. But then it's much the same rubbish. When you think of the potential, the access to talent, and this is the best Labour can do... it's so disappointing.

It is a great day for anyone with a working cerebelum.

I would say "Fetch me the biggest Turkey in the shop" but the biggest Turkey lost.

Plaid won in Caerphilly. Reform banished to the netherworld. Farage humiliated. Yes, it is a good day. A good day, indeed.

I did this. Maybe you will like it. Classic Poe. www.spreaker.com/episode/edga...

In many ways I am a near Earth object.

31/Atlas is travelling at over 250,000km per minute. Unimaginable speed unless you have been in a Audi with a photocopier salesman.

Paris museum The Louvre to consider installing doors.

To be honest, this looks more like the whole whitehouse will look after Trump is dragged from office.

The man has no intention of leaving office. Tickets for the 'ballroom' will be upwards of $500k, which he will pocket. His friends already will have made billions from a relatively small investment. And how people aren't kicking up the cow pies about this is shameful.