T-D-um blog!! (no not read if yer nervous or have a heart condition)

10.36

a sale!

2 strips of 7mm rawlplugs, 6 x 2.5" corner braces! four pounds ten!!

10.37

another sale!! can I cope?

1 roll of picture wire & 2 mirror plates!! two pounds five!!

10.40

i now have 15 60watt bayonet cap light bulbs in stock!!

I was supposed to go on this publicity bike ride for friends of the earth this afternoon, and my dad was going to come in and look after the shop, but my mum has to go to hospital for a check up, and he's going with her. it's raining anyway.

possibly ray davies or jarvis cocker cd make a song up about this, and make it sound interesting.

I'd like to hear Scott Walker's take on it.

10.48

i just fielded a phone call from one of our odder customers. nor my head feels all fucked up (nb i did not sleep well last night which doesn't help)

Haha, here I was wondering what a Te Deum blog was!

11.15

A flurry of activity!!

1/ someone phoned. they are bringing their dyson vacuum cleaner in to be repaired

2/ someone else phoned. they are coming to look at a foldinbg bicycle.

3/ someone else phoned. i ordered some elements for their electric fire, but they haven't arrived yet b/c the wholesaler is out of stock. they are the sort of person who when they speak to you, they ask you questions, but when you try to answer, they cut you off by asking another question, so you never get to say more than "yes, they'll..." or "it'll be abou..." or whatever. very frustrating

4/ a customer came in. one of our regulars. he's this older guy, who's a bit crazy. he lived in a council house, and he had this dog, which died. he then got another identical male dog, then he picxked up another identical female dog. I dunno what kind of dogs they are, meduim sized brindle coloured things. I wouldn't have one in my home. Anyway, everyone told him to get them neutered, but he reckoned it was cruel, and against god or something. Quite quickly he wound up with 12 identical brindle coloured medium sized dogs, his neighbours complained, and the council gave him an ultimatum - get rid of the dogs, or you're out. he kept the dogs. now he lives in a tent, or sometimes in a cave on the coast, with three identical (etc) dogs. the other nine went who knows where. he's actually a really really nice guy, but man, he smells like a fox. i had to open the door after he left.

11.24

right now i wd probably kill to hear sparks' "kimono my house". i think i need some sort of pick-me-up. actually, what i really need is a dump, so i think i'll go and look for the "back in 5 minutes" sign.

11.34

a man came in wanting to buy a pan. he was so drunk i couldn't understand him. no sale. he said he'd send his wife in!!
(nb you are getting edited harhar "highlights", obv, but this is all really happening!! thursday is a "funny day" usually)

11.43

prestige cook-control weight, eight pounds.

12.05

nothing. existed ;)

norman did you ever get that science blog invite?

yes geeta! i am writing a piece abt how my dad's broadband computer hot hax0red 10 mins after he went online, and the shit we went thru to get it working again

cool!!

(not cool abt what happened to your dad obv, but cool that you're starting to post!)

12.43

the last 1/2 hr has been incredibly boring. highlights: 2 bikes came in w/punctured tyres, for me to fix

classic exchange w/r/t punctured tyre scenario blah blah (i didn't get this this time, but to get variants on it quite often)

"can you fix my puncture?"

"yes, come back later this afternoon, it'll be six pounds"

"SIX POUNDS!!!1! I'm not paying that!!"

"OK, here's a puncture kit for one pound fifty, i don't mind, you save money, and i save time"

(confused) "er er no, you do it"

2 x halogen bulbs for bicycle dynamo front light

1 x 60w circular flourescent tube

i can feel the day slipping away from me.