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Listening To: the gas fire put-put-put - quite an adrenaline ride, our gas fire. it manages to convey the impression that it could blow at any moment.

the dog is systematically destroying any remaining keepsakes from my childhood. so far, in his short 6-month stay with me, he's chewed the eyes off my beloved A.G. bear, the hair off my favourite wish troll (before they were wish trolls, you know), the beak off an owl statue, and Straggle's nose. Straggle is just about the cutest looking teddy critter in the world, and now he just sort of looks... eerie. anyway, if he doesn't have any nose, how does he sme-

Thank God For: the blog-discipline to not finish the great british nose joke.