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Nicola Rippon - the old blog: November 2008
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Saturday, 22 November 2008. Making the best of a bad job. I RAN into an old work colleague the other day and, as great as it was to catch up, it left me wondering how we could both have such fond memories of working in a place that was, quite honestly, horrible. We were treated as an inconvenience: always the last to know but the first to be blamed. Our one toilet doubled up as a shared locker, and we had only one chair between six of us. Take, for example, staff rooms. I once shared one with colleag...
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Nicola Rippon - the old blog: March 2010
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Thursday, 4 March 2010. MY BLOG HAS MOVED . To find further updates (and for a full archive) please go to my newer blog by clicking on the link for my profile. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). With a number of exciting projects in the pipeline, two cats to follow around and a vegetable patch to tend, Nicola is grateful for this opportunity to vent and muse on this blog. View my complete profile. MY BLOG HAS MOVED .
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Nicola Rippon - the old blog: June 2008
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Saturday, 28 June 2008. Being pale is not a crime! WHAT is this obsession with getting the perfect tan? I don’t mean by roasting yourself in actual sunlight. Let’s face it, chances are that the long-term sun worshipper risks the permanent appearance of a wrinkled prune, never mind the well-documented health risks. No, I’m talking about that WAG favourite: the fake tan. Yet this seems to bother other people. Just try being truly pale and buying make-up. Assuming you can find a colour that matches ...You m...
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Nicola Rippon - the old blog: Raise the song of harvest-home!
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Monday, 22 September 2008. Raise the song of harvest-home! You see, this is my favourite time of year. The minute it begins to get just that little bit back-endish, I’m off in a flurry of pie baking and soup making. Now, though, it’s also making economic sense. Just the sight of them in the supermarket made me yearn for those days and I couldn’t resist. An afternoon in the kitchen filled the pantry with jams and stacked the freezer with fruit pies. Actually I’m getting scarily domesticated. I&#...I reali...
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Nicola Rippon - the old blog: March 2008
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008. My life with Ozzy Osbourne. THE week I spent working for Ozzy Osbourne was one of the most amazing of my life. You don't believe I worked for the legendary rocker? OK, you'd be right. But I was once mistaken for a member of his entourage. A few years ago, way before MTV's The Osbournes introduced us to him and his remarkable, often dysfunctional, family, I happened to be in San Antonio, Texas, at the same time as the great man himself. Actually I had pressed the button for the flo...
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Nicola Rippon - the old blog: January 2008
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Saturday, 19 January 2008. When the language is in tense. YOU see them all the time when you're on holiday abroad, the Brits whose approach to communicating with foreigners is to speak in English very loudly and very slowly, all accompanied by not necessarily helpful hand gestures. If you're anything like me, you've probably shuddered at the Basil Fawltyness of it - and then wondered whether you'd be any better. And, let me tell you, years of "Oui, Nikki le singe? I simply stopped putting up my hand.
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Nicola Rippon - the old blog: September 2008
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Monday, 22 September 2008. Raise the song of harvest-home! You see, this is my favourite time of year. The minute it begins to get just that little bit back-endish, I’m off in a flurry of pie baking and soup making. Now, though, it’s also making economic sense. Just the sight of them in the supermarket made me yearn for those days and I couldn’t resist. An afternoon in the kitchen filled the pantry with jams and stacked the freezer with fruit pies. Actually I’m getting scarily domesticated. I&#...I reali...