June 6, 2008
The whole world is full of people worrying about everything from wondering how to feed their family to their latte being cold with everything in between. Is there ever actually a correct time to worry? Should it even exist in the English dictionary …. No 
“I’m worried that I’m not allowed to be worried” you may be saying … well don’t worry about it because all is not lost. Take any problem / decision that you have and look at it as if it were someone else’s. (analyse with facts)
Let’s look at the chronology of a “worry”
1 – Something happens (normally bad)
2 – You spend time worrying about how bad things could possibly get
3 – You end up going round in circles as the worry gets worse
4 – You finally do something about it – Worry hopefully over
Is there a need for points 2 and 3 … er no! – it should go more like this:
1 – Something happens (normally bad)
2 – Take action to make it better
The word “Worry” would have to squeeze into point 1.5 to even make an appearance. By the time you feel the urge to worry is the time that you should be taking action! Once you have decided on the correct course of action (after analysing the facts) then you can start the path that will help resolve the original event. Be happy with your decision (after all you did make it armed with all the facts) – If you stick to this positive way of thinking then you will be worry free for good.
No Worries 
Chuffy
April 10, 2008
One day last week I was on an early train (which I got as its empty and I get to read my book). Anyhooo I noticed that I could hear a noise that you wouldn’t expect to hear on a train. So I look up and try to distingish what it was, and low and behold it was the noise of someone cutting their nails. Yes I did say cutting their nails!!
Now being a lady I understand that you may have a loose nail and would file or cut it down so it don’t snag anything – but this person behind me must have had very long Rhino nails as this cutting session went on for three stops - which in my estimation is over 6 minutes long.
The Man in front of me was pulling a face of disgust as he too was disturbed from his book. So I try to glance round to make a mental note not to sit near this person in the future, but couldn’t work out who the culprit was!!
Now dont get me wrong – this person cutting their nails was not the problem - it was the fact that it went on for so long.
Donohoe
xxx
March 27, 2008
A new dance craze is sweeping the nation……..The Commuter Hop!
I’ve been commuting to london for nearly two years now and it wasn’t until the other day that I noticed this strange phenonemon called the commuter hop. When you disembark the train at the end of a long day everyone rushes for the stairs in a race back to the car park, If your first over the bridge you win, nothing Material but you win, you win the right to walk back to your car with that smug look on your face that says to all the others still rushing over “I am better than you, I am faster and quicker and I am gnerally a better person”. It is not this smug look and race that I am interested in though…….
……what I have noticed is the way in which we go up the stairs/over the bridge after you get off the train. It is a strange kind of dance/hop/bobbing motion. Watch tonight and see. As you race for those stairs step back watch everyone else start to hop up them in a bizzare bobbing motion. Then as you are half way up think about how you are travelling up the stairs…you my friend are probably over compensating the height of each step too!
Despite the fact I have been travelling into London for a while this Phenonenom has never bothered me before, but now it does. You can’t not notice it. It doesn’t happen in the morning though. There is something about home time that makes a commuter Bob up and down as they travel over the stairs at the station. Something that gives them the extra height after each step is climbed that makes them (me included) look frankly quite ridiculous to the outside world! Ideas on a post card please.
Humperdinkaling
February 29, 2008
Like most great stories in life there is always a dashing villain and the good guy. Not too sure which one I am
This morning I trundled along to the station as per usual, and already knowing that my ticket ‘again’ refuses to work in the machines, I opt to go straight to the man on the barrier showing clearly my ticket – He as usual asks to see my ticket and I once again refuse. Does he actually believe that I get up at the crack of dawn, wash, shower, brush my teeth, have a cuppa, don my shirt and suit in order to come down to the station with a fake ticket just to see if maybe today will be my lucky day and that they let me through so that I can stand their in jubilation and shout “I did it” and then walk back home to go to bed? I don’t think so!
“Now the circle is complete, when I left you I was but the learner with a ticket that would work in the machines, now I am the master …. who has to come to you because it won’t bloody work!”
“Only a master of not having a valid ticket Chuff”
So I did my usual and pointed that it was in my wallet and proceeded to walk through (maybe I am indeed the leader of the Dark Side!)
I wonder how long he will keep asking me before I finally get stopped and police called – In the great words of that crazy toothed Kirsten Dunst .. “bring it on!”
Cheers
Chuffy
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February 6, 2008
Well there are a few reasons for this mostly economical
1. Turkeys start reproducing later than chickens and when they do they lay fewer eggs so are far less productive for farmers.
2. Turkey meat is worth more to Farmers as they are bigger so it makes more sense to eat them, than to keep them for their eggs (plus they take up more room to keep)
3. They are much more maternal and protective of their eggs so harder for farmers to colllect. You can get some big Turkeys and not sure I’d wanna trya dn cross an angry one!!!)
So all in all I think if the question is can you eat a turkey egg, then yes! don’t see why not, although good luck trying to steal them off the Big Mother turkey (what did you think I was going to say?). Why aren’t they sold commercially see above, have you not listened to anything I just said!!
Humperdinkaling
February 6, 2008
What a great place for psychological research the waterloo and city line can be. Let me explain:
This morning, I turn up at the entrance to the waterloo and city line to see a few people heading back in my direction. I take out my headphone jack from my old skool iRiver player (much better than any ipod IMHO, but that’s another blog entry all together) .. and hear an announcement that the “waterloo and city line is suspended due to Bank / Monument tube station being closed because of overcrowding”. Suddenly there is a wave of the people I would like to call “the believers” (are these the same people who: buy the daily mail? … buy the likes of westlife because they are told that it’s “a must have” …. are they the likes of people who devote their lives to a certain someone “apparently” upstairs because they have read it in a book ..(yes I’m talking about Bungle from ‘Rainbow’ – hehe only kidding) – I digress ….. back to “the believers” cascading towards me. I make way so that they can all get past and I stand at the top for a few moments pondering the problem at hand … “should I stay or should I go?” – the announcements are offering many different ways to get to bank, but none of them sounds very much fun so I opt to stay put for a while and see what happens. The people that I’m left surrounded by currently are “the inbetweeners” – they are either those who go through life sitting on the fence or they are ones who like to analyse a problem and then form an informed decision. I quickly make up my mind that I’m going to head down anyway and stand with those that I call “the sceptics” – they are either severely sceptical like me .. or just damn stubborn – it’s the approach of “I simply don’t believe that the announcement keeps telling me to go elsewhere, I shall stay here until you fix it” – this simple delay of a tube can define the people you are surrounded by everyday and how they deal with certain situations such as: “will they wait?” .. “if so how long will they wait etc” – it’s great.
I stood my ground and after 22 minutes of waiting on the tube it finally said that it was going and Bank tube was reopened – as the people from upstairs started to run down the ramp towards the train the doors shut (:D) – it’s never good to sit on the fence, make an informed decision and be happy with the choice you made. There are many many tougher decisions in life that we all face, however with a step back and quick look at the facts in hand you can make a wise decision, and never be afraid to stick to your guns unless the facts change and you need to take another step back.
I’ll take my philosophical hat off now
cheers
Chuffy
February 5, 2008
Don’t forget to us know how you get on, and any crazy reactions / being fired!
1-Sounds like miller time to me
2-talk about christmas presents being worn at work!
3-no thats a coffin!
4-this swivel chair is one of my fave things ever
5-this would never have happened if darth vader was incharge
6-water cooler moment anyone?
7-oooh its like somthing outa that hero’s program, but more black!
January 24, 2008
1 – Thats a good topic for the news letter
2 – Your bound to disagree with this but……..
3 – Talk about eggs on faces!
4 – Benny Hill did it like that. . . or was it Damon Hill, I forget!
5 – Ongoing?. . . lets just say post it notes and call it a day on that one!
6 – Its the new black, I’m telling you!
7 – Dont talk to me about that, I’m the leading authority on it
8 – Chillingly good stuff
9 – Good thing I’ve got this office chair under me
10 – I had a 4 cheese salad from there and it only had 3 cheese’s in it, bloody chumps they are!!
