Archive for July 20th, 2007
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Well Harry Potter mania is in full swing, with loads of people camping out to get a copy of the final chapter in the life or will it be death of Harry Potter.
Check out Childline’s story on Sky News about bereavement counselling as they have warned parents that children might suffer “bereavement” if Potter actually dies in the new book. I’ve never heard something so stupid. Children can discern the difference between fiction and reality and of course, they will be disappointed and upset if Harry dies, but… bereavement counselling is rather taking it a bit too far!!! I wonder what other wonderful counselling ideas will be offered once the book is finally released?
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I don’t know about you but the term D.I.Y. and ‘it comes as a flatpack’, installs fear into me. Armed with an allen key and a set of instructions I always struggle to fit the furniture together so that it looks as perfect as the picture in the advert! I am told by experienced ‘D.I.Y’er’s’ that when you receive your ‘flatpack’, you should count all the parts before you start as well as read the instructions carefully before you touch anything so you can get it straight in your mind of how the whole thing fits together, but how many of us just jump straight in, not fully reading all the instructions as ‘we know how to do it’, then 20 minutes later .. it doesn’t quite fit together. Somehow the holes for the screws are just too small and one leg is slightly shorter than all the rest and it just will not stop wobbling, think of me as I’m trying to fit together my newest purchase, a computer desk which comes unfortunately, ‘flatpacked’!!!!!!