10 new work laws we'd like to see
"All work and no play" well I think it's time to put a n end to all that. Here are ten ways to do it: After a holiday or office party someone automatically brings a double dose of espresso to your desk and no sly remarks about a possible hangover are allowed. - If your boss pisses you off twice in one week you are granted an immediate, paid one day vacation - Coffee served at work must not taste like ...
The lighter side of death
Visiting Rites Susan Jane McCoy was a righteous and graceful eighty five year old lady who was spending the last of her days at the St Mary Retirement home in southern New Jersey. One fine morning she requested to speak to the local priest. "Father", she said in a broken, worn out voice "I feel that my time is drawing near and I have two requests." "Mrs. McCoy, you have been a faithful member of our c...
What the Queen said, and what she really meant
"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements." English interpretation: "My sister's a lush, my daughter in law bollimic, my son insists on making it out with a cow, my husband's so senile that he tries to put it in the vacuum cleaner and my favorite Corgi has eloped to America." --- "It's all to do with the training: you c...
What the Queen said, and what she really meant
"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements." English interpretation: "My sister's a lush, my daughter in law bollimic, my son insists on making it out with a cow, my husband's so senile that he tries to put it in the vacuum cleaner and my favorite Corgi has eloped to America." --- "It's all to do with the training: you c...
What the Queen said, and what she really meant
"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements." English interpretation: "My sister's a lush, my daughter in law bollimic, my son insists on making it out with a cow, my husband's so senile that he tries to put it in the vacuum cleaner and my favorite Corgi has eloped to America." --- "It's all to do with the training: you c...
What the Queen said, and what she really meant
"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements." English interpretation: "My sister's a lush, my daughter in law bollimic, my son insists on making it out with a cow, my husband's so senile that he tries to put it in the vacuum cleaner and my favorite Corgi has eloped to America." --- "It's all to do with the training: you c...
10 new work laws we'd like to see
"All work and no play" well I think it's time to put a n end to all that. Here are ten ways to do it: After a holiday or office party someone automatically brings a double dose of espresso to your desk and no sly remarks about a possible hangover are allowed. - If your boss pisses you off twice in one week you are granted an immediate, paid one day vacation - Coffee served at work must not taste like ...
You know you're really pregnant when
...that creepy guy on the train who is unable to extract the finger from his nostril and who wears a torn pair of black bell bottom jeans, gets up to give you a seat. ...the guy at the local convenience store starts wrapping pickles for you before you even get to the counter. ...your homeroom teacher suggests that you both have a little ...
You know you're really pregnant when
...that creepy guy on the train who is unable to extract the finger from his nostril and who wears a torn pair of black bell bottom jeans, gets up to give you a seat. ...the guy at the local convenience store starts wrapping pickles for you before you even get to the counter. ...your homeroom teacher suggests that you both have a little ...
ChatRoulette: what you've been missing
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The lighter side of death
Visiting Rites Susan Jane McCoy was a righteous and graceful eighty five year old lady who was spending the last of her days at the St Mary Retirement home in southern New Jersey. One fine morning she requested to speak to the local priest. "Father", she said in a broken, worn out voice "I feel that my time is drawing near and I have two requests." "Mrs. McCoy, you have been a faithful member of our c...
40 more things to do when you're bored
O.K. so I know when I've got a good thing going. You loved my earlier blog 100 things to when you're bored. Here are 40 more ideas 1. Paint your monitor black. 2. Paint your monitor screen black. 3. Try to get the paint of your screen before your boss sees it and fires you. 4. Write a musical about four legged animals who sing songs based on a long dead poet. - Oh that one's been done. Sorry, there are...
10 new work laws we'd like to see
"All work and no play" well I think it's time to put a n end to all that. Here are ten ways to do it: After a holiday or office party someone automatically brings a double dose of espresso to your desk and no sly remarks about a possible hangover are allowed. - If your boss pisses you off twice in one week you are granted an immediate, paid one day vacation - Coffee served at work must not taste like ...
ChatRoulette: what you've been missing
© 2010 Steve Taite. All rights reserved. If you enjoyed this post please leave a comment and pass on to your friends. If not feel free to pass on to your enemies. Don't want to miss a post? What are you waiting for, subscribe now or follow me on twitter.
10 new work laws we'd like to see
"All work and no play" well I think it's time to put a n end to all that. Here are ten ways to do it: After a holiday or office party someone automatically brings a double dose of espresso to your desk and no sly remarks about a possible hangover are allowed. - If your boss pisses you off twice in one week you are granted an immediate, paid one day vacation - Coffee served at work must not taste like ...

Confessions of a Male Shopaholic Fan

O.K. before you get the wrong impression. I am not a shopaholic. I don’t spend all my free time in the mall buying clothes I won’t wear and have yet to meet a guy who does (well perhaps except for Martin who is gay and a cross dresser, but I won’t get into that here). Anyway where was I? Oh yes the shopaholic. Well One day a friend of mine (female) said she had this book I should read and handed me a copy of Shopaholic and Baby. Now if you’ve seen the cover of Shopaholic and Baby, or for that matter any of the other books by Sophie Kinsella you know one thing for sure. They are what is commonly known in the business as Chic Lit. For those off you who don’t have a PHD in Literature from Cambridge, let me explain that Chic Lit refers to books written by chicks for chicks whose I.Q. rarely exceeds 47 and whose main aim in life, after praying for world peace, is shopping. So Here I have this Chick Lit book in my hand which I stuff into my executive briefcase before anyone notices and think nothing more about the subject for several weeks. Until one evening I have to go somewhere desperately ( I won’t go into details but you can read about the subject here) and the only book I could find is Shopaholic and Baby, so I indulge. Ten minutes I hear my wife yelling:
“Will you please stop laughing and come out already!” So I eventually came out, but I didn’t stop laughing till I reached the last page.

Sophia Kinsella is not a Chic Lit author, she’s a humorist,, almost a satirist, and a great one. she writes about the important things that face a young female and future mother in this new material world – designer prams at Pram City with an all terrain stroller course where you can try them out are juxtaposed with the option of using recycled diapers (knappies for the English). Googling Kinsella, I found that she is really named Madelaine Wickham, was born in 1969 and is therefore is no longer the young writer in her late twenties whose picture is displayed at the back of her novels. She actually started her career as a financial journalist in much the way her heroine does in the first Shopaholic novel.

After finishing Shopaholic and Baby I immediately went out and bought three more of her novels. I started out with Confessions of a Shopaholic, now a terrible Hollywood movie I advise you not to see in which the producer tragically moved the action to America, screwed up the humor and made a mediocre and forgettable Chic Flic. Then I went for two non Shopaholic novels.

Twenties Girl is a ghost story in the great English tradition of Topper. There are two twenties girls in the book. Lara, the heroine in her twenties who is finding it impossible to get over her ex-boyfriend, and Sadie, her 105 year old late great aunt, who Lara is haunted by. Sadie appears to Lara as a fun young party girl from the 1920′s who is searching for a lost necklace.
Remember Me is a story of a fun regular girl in her twenties who suddenly wakes up in hospital as a high power executive,married to a multi-millionaire with great nails and a wardrobe to die for. Her problem is she can’t remember anything that happened in the last three years of her life, including getting married, having an affair, becoming the office bitch and estranging all her friends.

If you want to have some fun, need to drink heavily to get over all depressing novels you’ve read in the last year, then indulge yourself in one of Kinsella’s novels. They’re not Chic Lit but if you’re worried about your credibility hide the book behind the covers of War and Peace.