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The price of Silk

So, fed up of having sand kicked in your face? Want to set yourself apart from the herd? Want to make yourself more attractive to the opposite sex? Why not apply for Silk? Here is Ruthie’s easy step by step guide…

1. Start being extra nice to all your professional contacts. You’ll need them for references (10 required).

2. Dig a big hole.

3. Throw money in (3k to be precise)

4. Fill in a long form, send off your references.

5. Wait

6a. Failure, whoops, better luck next time. Start again from the top next year.

6b. Success!! Now..continue

7. Dig a big hole

8. Throw money in (3.5k)

9. Buy fancy clothes (700 quid)

10. Organise party and other sundries (2k)

11. Change your email address from joebloggs@mail.co.uk to joebloggsqc@mail.co.uk

11. Wait

12. Hope that the premium you can charge for doing work as a silk makes up for the value of all the work you can no longer do.

For further information check out the website or send 50 quid in non sequential notes in a brown envelope to Ruthie marked “Get me Silk”. You may still not get silk, but Ruthie promise to invest the money back into the blog. Or a new snowboard.

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Blogging from Bulgaria

Pah, Geeklawyer thought Ruthie was out of his hair for a week as she is currently soaking up the sun in the mountains on her snowboard. Ruthie thought she would try Bulgaria this year; a member of the EU since 1st January. So far she is impressed. Whilst her hotel looks like somewhere the Soviet army took dissidents to be tortured (her room is situated in “Block A”) the food is cheap, the people friendly, and crucially, lots of snow.

Ruthie is an expert skier, in fact so expert that there are few slopes sufficiently challenging. So she has diversified into boarding. One would think it couldn’t be so different. One could be so wrong.

Ruthie has spent the day grappling with the more practical aspects of Newtonian mechanics and falling repeatedly on her amply padded arse…