http://www.tartanbunker.dekaydence.com Enter the World of Dekaydence Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:33:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I write to a woman on business and get a nice email back thanking me for making her smile. Which makes me think. However dark the hour a smile is a bright thing to enjoy or behold. So what a gift it is to offer someone the chance to ... http://www.tartanbunker.dekaydence.com/smile-please/ It’s been a wee while since I took pen to blog. Apologies. Ma friend I tell you about occasionally has had what the Chinese describe as an interesting year. I prefer to say it was difficult. Two operations, a heavy workload, and the death of three family members and of ... http://www.tartanbunker.dekaydence.com/back-to-the-bunker/ So, more than one in six homes in the UK now have at least one person of working age unemployed. The highest rate since 1999. And there are now 3.3m households where no one aged 16 or over is in employment. So, here’s an idea, not a total answer but ... http://www.tartanbunker.dekaydence.com/ode-to-work/ If I hadna been sitting down I woulda fallen over. It was the shock, you see. To read that we might once more be growing our own food in this UK country of ours. You young ’uns might not know this but this country gave up growing much of its ... http://www.tartanbunker.dekaydence.com/grubs-up/ It’s Mothering Sunday and my friend went to call on her mother. And her dad. No longer round the corner but several hours’ journey away, her mother has recently joined her dad in a plot of earth in a quiet country cemetery. No flowers. Mother was allergic for years. Most ... http://www.tartanbunker.dekaydence.com/cassandra-who-foresaw-so-much-is-no-more/ A friend spent three days trying to get a sign of life from Thames Water, using two phones and email. Like to imagine TW were out mending leaks. Who’s kidding who? Perhaps someone got the spelling wrong and they’d decamped to allotments in Wales. On the third day, a call ... http://www.tartanbunker.dekaydence.com/very-crossed-wires/ I know a great hairdresser. Trouble is, he keeps getting bookings for big, long jobs on a Saturday - cut, full head of colour, blow dry, tea etc – and then the blighter doesn’t turn up, which, over time, loses ma friend, the hairdresser, a lot of money. Who are ... http://www.tartanbunker.dekaydence.com/hair-today/ Let’s forget Sir Fred for a moment, ok a lifetime. Let’s focus instead on Myners man and Harman woman. Why wasn’t Myners on the case, or at least getting a minion to check out young Fred’s pension contract? And is Harman intent on running Gulag UK? To paraphrase her words: ... http://www.tartanbunker.dekaydence.com/courting-disaster/ Why should someone cut a drawing from the spine of an old book in my study, mostly occupied over long periods, put the drawing back inside the book, and put the book back on another shelf?  Any Inspector MacPoirots out there with theories?  http://www.tartanbunker.dekaydence.com/book-it-macpoirot/ Here’s a non-government health warning: don’t use Spelt flour to make pancakes. MacGluten, the Dekaydence chef, tells me that everyone knows that Spelt flour is the flour for the bbc (bread, biscuits and cakes). I should've guessed. Despite the addition of honey and brandy, the mixture had no will to ... http://www.tartanbunker.dekaydence.com/no-flying-tonight/