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Quiet

September 8th, 2009 by Kev
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The Braehead Mall was quiet, too quiet. Maybe it was the credit crunch, but maybe it was something more sinister? The man on the mobile phone had passed him before & so had the girl with the purple hair, they were on to him they had to be. Was it time to run? No that’s what they want, act normal.

He sipped his Cappuccino and casualy tried to pick up the other watchers. The woman with the pushchair? Maybe. The cleaner who had twice passed a disgarded drinks cup?

Maybe, just maybe, he had been reading too many spy novels.

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A letter of complaint

August 29th, 2009 by Kev
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Okay this a fair use parody, copyright of characters belongs to other people mainly the BBC and are here by acknowledged. This is totally non-canonical and intended to be comical.

The Doctor
Gallifrey
Your past, present or future.

Dear General Manager Telos car rental,
I recently hired one of your cars for a holiday tour of the UK and I feel I have to point out my dissatisfaction with the hire.
I collected the car from your Cardiff branch. I had parked the TARDIS on the Rift to recharge it. Recharging takes a lot longer since the local council’s pothole repair initiative was started. My first complaint is about the car that I collected. The car was a deep blue colour when I had specified silver and a clear plastic trifle bowl had been glued to the roof. I assume this was an attempt at humour by members of your staff. The boot space in the car was particularly frustrating as the capacity reduced greatly when I put my bags in. This caused further problems when I met my old friend Alpha Centauri in Frampton On Severn as AC travels with a lot of luggage.

AC and myself toured many historical sites and tourist attractions around the country and everywhere we went people treated us very oddly which I believe to be due to the trifle bowl glued to the roof of the car. I did enjoy our visit to Stonehenge and I know that the architect and builders would die laughing if they were to see the modern interpretations of the site.

I dropped AC at Barnard Castle by pretending it was actually Barnard’s Star, well three weeks trapped in trifle bowl topped small car with AC is all a friendship can cope with. Shortly after Barnard Castle I was involved in a road traffic accident. On a narrow road I was forced into a ditch by an oncoming car driving on my side of the road. I pressed the button which I assumed would make a temporal jump to avoid the collision, however this simply flashed both the indicators at once. The roadside assistance that you sent to pull the car out of the ditch leads me to the next complaint. The gentleman who arrived with the tow truck was surly and openly mocked me for the damned trifle bowl. He also stole my Sonic Screwdriver and cannot stress too strongly that this must be returned to me as it’s possession by a non-Time Lord breaks several inter-galactic conventions.

On arriving in Edinburgh, where I was planning to take in some Festival events, I was relieved that at least this was one place that no one would gave a second look to a trifle bowl topped car. I will be writing presently to the Fringe Association as I believe one of its performers is making illegal use of Time Lord technology. On the Royal Mile I saw a woman appear to climb into a box no more than one metre square and close the lid. If our technology is being illegally exploited on Earth why can’t it be used to improve boot space in your rental cars?

The car was returned to your Edinburgh branch as was pre-arranged and they charged me an excess due to the trifle bowl lifting paint when it was removed. I would like this charge refunded and some form of compensation for the problems caused on my tour. My plan to hire another vehicle at the end of the Festival was scuppered as the word had gone round that I glued trifle bowls to the roofs of cars. This resulted me having to fly back to Cardiff. I will be writing presently to Edinburgh Airport as to my difficulties and treatment going through security.

Yours sincerely
The Doctor

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Flotation tank

July 7th, 2009 by Kev
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I think I was in my early teens when I first heard of flotation tanks or Flotarium. I have always wanted to try one and today age 40 I did for the first time.

The tank in this case was small pool/room and not a capsule style tank.

After showering and putting in the foam ear plugs I stepped through a small door from the shower and into the tank. For the first 5 minutes some relaxing music was playing, it reminded me if traditional Chinese music but I don’t really know if it was. After 5 minutes the music switched off and the light in the shower area also switched off leaving me in complete darkness.

The solution I was floating in was made up of 200lb of water & 1000lb of Epsom salts. The solution is kept at skin temperature. This was slightly disconcerting as there was no real sensation like you get with a bath or swimming pool.

The first feeling I did get was that I was slowly drifting to my left, head first. It got to the point where I felt as though I was at 45 degrees to where I had started. This was obviously not possible due to the width of the room being 4 feet wide and me being 5 foot 10 inches tall.

I did manage to relax and “shut off” for periods which was good as it is something I have great difficulty doing.

The float in silence and complete darkness lasted 40 minutes then the music came back on.

I have another voucher for the tank and it will be interesting to see what it is like when I an not thinking about the experience and relax fully.

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HOPE not hate

June 10th, 2009 by Kev
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HOPE not hate: Celebrating modern Britain
HOPE not hate
Celebrating modern Britain

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Best ticket price ever

March 21st, 2009 by Kev
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£3.00 from Edinburgh, Scotland to Peru!

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