Monthly Archives for February 2011

Mission Time Elapsed: 14 days & 55 minutes

I’ve not had a cigar­ette since I said I wouldn’t. To be quite hon­est, I’m a little sur­prised. Smoking is a sneaky habit: I’ve known very few people to start smoking openly, or announce that they’ve decided it would be … Con­tinue read­ing

16. February 2011 by Laura
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The shop that time forgot

There’s a shop in a small vil­lage in rural Scot­land which still sells boxes of goods marked with pre-decimal prices which may well have been placed there 80 years ago. This treas­ure trove of a hard­ware store sells new products too. … Con­tinue read­ing

07. February 2011 by Laura
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T-minus 12 hours

I have smoked for a long time. A very long time. Most of the people I know now, with the excep­tion of my fam­ily, only know me as a smoker. In fact, if you search for my name on Google … Con­tinue read­ing

01. February 2011 by Laura
Categories: smoking | 3 comments