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Buggerred Britain #20

Another instalment in my occasional series documenting some of the underbelly of Britain. Britain which we wouldn’t like visitors to see and which we wish wasn’t there. The trash, abused, decaying, destitute and otherwise buggered parts of our environment. Those parts which symbolise the current economic malaise; parts which, were the country flourishing, wouldn’t be there, would be better cared for, or made less inconvenient.
I could not resist this! The care home where my mother lives is having some building work done. This notice is posted outside their front door. Absolutely brilliant builder’s English!

Buggered Britain #20

Weekly Photograph

More pussy porn this week. Tilly had an interview with the vet on Wednesday and came away without her nuts. It doesn’t seem to have slowed her down any! On Friday I did a major reorganisation of my desk area, installed lots of new filing trays and a couple of plastic crates for holding the build up of filing. Small madam has decided the top crate, which is tucked under a shelf, is a good place to snooze., despite (because of?) the fact that she can only just squeeze in there one leg at a time and that via another stack of filing trays.
The first photo is of her bedding down; in the second she is on ther way out and looking for something to pounce on and destroy.

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Pussy in a Box
Pussy in a Box
16 November 2013
Pestle Pussy
Pestle Pussy
16 November 2013

Word: Bandersnatch

Bandersnatch
A fleet, furious, fuming, fabulous creature of dangerous propensities, immune to bribery and too fast to flee from. Later used vaguely to suggest any creature with such qualities.
The word was invented by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) and it makes its first appearance in Alice Through the Looking Glass (1871). The OED suggests the name is a portmanteau word like its stock epithet frumious.
Needless to say this beast has never been photographed.